Melissa and Nick

Melissa Gross is a very talented makeup artist, and her boyfriend, Nick, is an aspiring musician. Check out these promo shots we did for her makeup work and his band.

 

Check them out in the portraits section. 

Photos from the Union 206 Buffet

Photos from the Union 206 All-You-Can-Shoot Buffet.

Ducati photos are featured on the Motor bookstore website

I submitted some photos of the Monza to the Motor Bookstore website contest, and they were accepted!

They are featured in the Ducati Repair Manuals section, http://www.themotorbookstore.com/ducati-repair-manuals.html as well as the Vintage Motorcycle Repair Manuals section, http://www.themotorbookstore.com/vimorema.html.

Frankie's Factory

Last night, local filmmaker Francisco Campos-Lopez and his crew held a music video release party at the Rock and Roll Hotel in DC for five local acts with all the proceeds going towards the Toys for Tots program. After the videos were presented to the crowd, the artists all got on and performed, and they were all fantastic. One of the videos, Alexis George's "Gimmie The Mic" was actually shot at our studio, Union 206! I took some photos for Frankie, and here they are.

 

That would be a Lumiquest Softbox III. It attaches via velco on the flash. I was using a Honl Speed Strap (about 10 bucks) to attach it.

Helds

I've always been drawn towards well used, well loved functional objects, things like pots and pans, tools (hand and machine tools), old unrestored cars and motorcycles, and, in this case, clothing. These objects were created for a purpose, to perform some task, and they take on a patina that's not only signs of wear and age, but also a legacy of the person that used them. They take on their own special kind of beauty.

 I bought these gloves in 2005, at the AMA race at VIR. My friend and I had ridden down from Washington DC and did the Dragon, where I had my first street crash and blew the palms out of a pair of Alpinestar GP2 gloves which were essentially brand new. Thankfully, my hands and the bike still worked so we continued our trip to VIR for the races, me sans gloves. I was walking around the vendor area and met up with the Held sales rep, and proceeded to buy this pair of gloves. I was immediately blown away with the build quality and comfort... soft, tough, no seams in the palms, absolutely perfect. I wore these exclusively for the next 5 years, through daily commuting, through two cross country motorcycle trips, through a trip across Europe on a bike, 5 years worth of track days and WERA races (I don't run in classes that they pay contingency in, but I run their stickers anyway), through two more crashes on the track (held up through both), through rain, sleet, snow, the salt at Bonneville during speed week, mid-atlantic summertime heat and humidity.... and the gloves felt better every time I put them on. To put this in perspective, I've gone through two pairs of Sidi boots and two motorcycles in that same span of time.

Sadly, the palm on one of them has now started to fray and will no longer pass tech inpection at the track, and can't be repaired, so it's time for a new pair. I think too many of us value low price over quality and don't think twice about throwing something away when it no longer works, but I actually feel a sense of loss with these gloves, like when your favorite pair of shoes wear out or when your favorite shirt becomes too threadbare to wear anymore. This sense of loss is not because they were expensive (they were), but because of how well they worked and the experiences I collected while using them. I felt like they deserved some sort of documentation, so here they are, a small summation of the last 5 years of motorcycling for me.

California Decay

More photos from the motorcycle trip... these documenting rural decay in California and the southwest.

Bonneville Salt Flats

Some photos from a cross country motorcycle trip I did with another photographer, Justin Bowles. We stopped at the salt flats a few days before speed week and found these amazing machines.

Vintage Motorcycle Series

Here's the first bike in my vintage motorcycle series. My (isn't that convenient) 1967 Ducati Monza 250.

Check them all out here!

Christian Dixon and a 1967 Ducati Monza 250

Chaos Magazine

 An article from the summer issue of Chaos Magazine about fixed geat bicycles (fixies) features some of my photography. Check the photos out here and find the article here. Danny, the rider I shot for this article, is a volunteer at Velocity, a bicycle CO-OP that we share a building with. They're a great group of guys and girls. The shoot was a lot of fun and I'm still adding to my series of interesting bikes and riders that come through there.

 

New Content

Hey everyone, I've been busy with work, but I've uploaded lots of new content, so check it out!

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