I wanted to practice with some lights the other night and had this concept of warriors in traditional garb and weaponry. My buddy Dan and I shot this in my living room. The final product wasn’t really close to anything traditional, but it was fun to play around with the idea. Here are a few frames from the shoot.

During my internship I worked on a story that started with Muay Thai Kickboxing at Total Confidence Martial Arts. I found an interesting fighter who was a nurse that worked a graveyard shift at a nursing home. I put time after hours photographing her training.

When it came to her fight day at the Battle in Bellingham, her opponent was a no show (yippee..) I scrambled and found a fighter from the same gym, by the name of Darren Benson. To my surprise it ended up to be the Blaine Middle School principal.

I shot it in March and they decided to hold the story until now. Here is the final product that turned into an audioslideshow and the story.

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