thank you everyone for your support! my brother Dan’s Kickstarter project is now 109% funded which means that he’s headed off to this year’s Isle of Man TT!

great news, my brother Dan’s kickstarter project has been fully funded!



but let’s not stop giving now, folks. there’s still two days to go for the fundraising and a little financial cushion never hurt any endeavor!

so my brother Dan of Corner Speed Photo fame is trying to get out to the UK this year to cover the Isle of Man TT, one of the longest and most dangerous motorcycle races on earth.

to help raise funds, Dan has started a Kickstarter page which i would encourage all of you to check out so you can read up on his project and consider helping him get there!

spent today volunteering for Riders For Health and hanging out at the International Motorcycle Show.

here are my highlights (click to enlarge):

one of Ben Spies’s Yamaha YZR-M1 MotoGP bikes from 2011 (in 50th anniversary colors)




autographed Ben Spies replica helmets!




Josh Hayes’s 2011 AMA Superbike Championship winning Yamaha R1




Wrightstown, WI police department’s Suzuki GSX-R600 pursuit bike




race-spec KTM 1190 RC8




Aprilia RSV4 Factory APRC Biaggi Special Edition

a few weeks ago, i was stuck in South Loop traffic behind a silver SUV with the name and URL of an art gallery on the rear window. well, i met with the owners yesterday to discuss what i do and the overall marketability of my work and the response was pretty positive. that said, i think we’re going to try and get my first proper show up and running sometime this summer, the proceeds from which will go towards funding my work as a humanitarian photographer.

that’s all i have to report for now but i’ll be sure to keep my blog updated as things gradually unfold :)

for those of you who don’t know, my brother Dan is also a photographer (a better one than i am, though he would never admit it) and primarily shoots professional motorcycle racing which, by itself, probably makes him the coolest brother ever.

anyway, today is his birthday so head on over to his website at www.CornerSpeedPhoto.com, check out his photos and wish him a happy one!

for those of you who don’t know, my brother Dan is also a photographer (a better one than i am, though he would never admit it) and primarily shoots professional motorcycle racing which, by itself, probably makes him the coolest brother ever.

anyway, today is his birthday so head on over to his website at www.CornerSpeedPhoto.com, check out his photos and wish him a happy one!

so my brother of CornerSpeedPhoto fame is in Florida right now covering the Daytona 200 AMA superbike races this weekend. since he’s friends with a few of the racers, he’s convinced some of them to run CornerSpeedPhoto stickers on their bikes this season. for this weekend’s races, said stickers are on the Buell 1125Rs of Shawn Higbee and Paul James:



plus the Suzuki GSX-R of Skip Salenius:

my brother, the incredibly talented motorsports photographer behind CornerSpeedPhoto, had stickers made recently so i decided to slap one on my crutch. if you enjoy racing or watching other people race, head on over to CornerSpeedPhoto.com and take a look at some of his work; you won’t regret it.

the Volkswagen 1600 Squareback you see above was the last thing i ever photographed with my Nikon D200 (serial #3093098) before it was stolen early last year. as such, the sight of this rather unfortunate looking 1600 fills me with the insurmountable urge to hurl the camera thief into a large cauldron of boiling oil. oh yes, it does.

vengeful thoughts aside, two things strike me about this Volkswagen: 1) it looks like it’s been through a lot and 2) it’s got to be one tough little wagon. it’s probably witnessed a great many crazy things in the last 30 years, certainly enough to trade its paint for dents and patches of rust while outlasting most of its contemporaries. this then is a fighter, a great survivor of many things and will probably continue to plod on for years to come. bravo.