Jeff Warner PHOTO

3/18/12: Telluride prevails over Arapahoe for State Hockey Championship

Jeff Warner — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:39:41 +0000

We took a ride down to the Pepsi Center to meet up with Heidi’s college roomate Catherine, whose son Caleb was playing in the finals for the Squirt C State Championship. The Telluride Lizard Heads won handily over the Arapahoe Warriors, 4-2. It sure was fun watching those kids play their hearts out, their first year playing in the Pepsi Center. Congrats to all of them on a great final game of the season!

I didn’t take too many pics, but here’s a few…

3/13/12: In re-bar we trust

Jeff Warner — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:24:52 +0000

I spent an hour this morning shooting the Weekly Assignment from my favorite photography forum, this week’s subject being “Bridges”. Instead of going downtown looking for some cool architecture, I decided instead to go to the bridge nearest my home, and photograph it. That bridge is actually a concrete overpass for Highway 58 above, probably built in the 50′s like so many of them were. Nothing special, certainly nothing fancy, and driving over it at 50 mph you’d never give it another thought. The view from beneath begs an entirely different response.

The bridge acts as more of an ‘underpass’ for Ford Street in Golden, but is a bridge structure nonetheless. Alongside a creek and a road, a bike path crosses beneath it; runners, cyclists, moms and kids and dogs alike, all crossing underneath the highway. Having spent an hour there, I’m astounded that this bridge is not on Colorado’s list of 128 bridge structures currently classified as ‘poor’ (63 of these bridges were designated by the Colorado Bridge Enterprise to be fast-tracked for replacement, via the FASTER bond initiative). [UPDATE: CDOT removed the chunk of concrete within 24 hours, and indicated that the bridge is scheduled for replacement in 2013, despite it not being on the list.]

As large trucks passed overhead, I’d occasionally hear things hitting the street, presumably very small chunks of concrete, falling from above. I never saw anything, but the noise was coming from the same place, beneath what looked to be a patch on the bottom side of the roadway, of which there were several. Prior to replacing a nearby overpass crossing this same highway, I’d seen how CDOT was essentially putting band-aids on gaping wounds (I’m admittedly no civil engineer), presumably due to lack of funding; however, it wouldn’t surprise me if the ongoing war over the Northwest Parkway has lowered Golden to the lowest common denominator for the State’s road maintenance funding. Anyway, I digress…

I’m sure bridges and roads, governments and highway departments across the nation suffer similar maladies, as the Minneapolis bridge collapse of 2007 would suggest. The West’s ongoing economic recession comes at a time when our nation, in particular, needs to replace the aging infrastructure created during the post-WWII construction boom, a time when our government appears at a loss to come up with the resources to do so.

At the top is the image I picked for the assignment, “In Re-Bar We Trust”, with a few others that follow:

"In Re-Bar We Trust"

Concrete-encased girders, some appearing in good condition, some not so good.

Decaying concrete columns beneath Highway 58, Golden, Colorado

Containment, or warning? (either is scary!)

Chunk from above?

Concrete 'patch' hanging from Highway 58 bridge

3/9/12: Accepted by NYC Agency: Glasshouse Images

Jeff Warner — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:28:03 +0000

I’m pleased to announce I’m now represented by a photo agency in New York City, Glasshouse Images, a boutique stock photo and representation agency that caters to “a select group of creatives who are always on the look out for exceptional and distinctive imagery”.

If you’re interested, the first batch of images they selected can be found here:

Glasshouse Porfolio: Jeff Warner

Glasshouse is not your typical ‘cents-on-the-dollar’ stock agency so commonplace today, and I’m thrilled that they considered my images to be worthy of presentation to their clients.

Onward!

3/6/12: Clear Creek Canyon

Jeff Warner — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:59:27 +0000

Took a drive up Clear Creek Canyon this morning to clear my head, make some sense of it all. Grabbed the F-Stop Gear Guru with the 5D MkII and found a shaded part of the canyon to capture some moving water and ice. Happy with the photographic results, though the clarity upstairs hasn’t yet materialized.

Enjoy!

2/25/12: Image of the Day: “The Wind”

Jeff Warner — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:09:32 +0000

Snowshoeing in Herman Gulch today found the winds swirling in all directions, with snowrollers taking sometimes nonsensical paths through the surface of the snow.

The Wind

Panama Canal Timelapse: SAS Fall 2011 Voyage

Jeff Warner — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:46:24 +0000

For those of you who weren’t able to see the MV Explorer’s transit of the Panama Canal on 12/7/11 (Semester at Sea’s Fall 2011 Voyage), here it is. The images were captured every 10 seconds using a tripod-mounted Canon EOS 7D on the observation deck, then compiled in iMovie for 5 minutes worth of video (roughly 5 hours of the 8 hour transit). Note that I did take the opportunity to bail from one significant storm (had a bit of lunch with the family in the Garden lounge), though the video captures two separate storms brewing.

Enjoy!

Panama Canal Transit Timelapse, 12/7/11 from Jeff Warner on Vimeo.

New website and blog format!

Jeff Warner — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:52:31 +0000

Over the last four months it became clear to me that it’s time to update the website, since the initial inception of JeffWarnerPHOTO.com back in 2007 was never intended to be a business-related site. There were features that were lacking, it was cumbersome to use, but most of all, the Flash implementation was nearly useless for SEO.

Onward!