Brian Buckland Photography Blog

As you may or may not know, I live directly on Sloan’s Lake in Denver.  I wake up every morning and look out my front window across a park and see the lake with the Rockies as a backdrop.  I have to say, it’s not a bad way to start the day.  Well in late July the 10th Annual Colorado Dragon Boat Festival was held on the lake, which means 2 packed days of Dragon Boat Races right in front of my house.  How can you go wrong? 

No boat for me this year, but the races went on all day and the festival was in full swing as well.  Every type of Asian food you could imagine and some that you couldn’t.  The Asian market was also a good place to start practicing for your trip to SE Asia.  “$15 for this Bamboo plant and some rocks?  How about $5 and you keep the rocks?”  There was also a dragon head in search of it’s body and a few karate demonstrations going on too.

I even managed to track down some wild life and get Riley out for a little while.  Looks like this goose lost a paddle!  Lucky for him Riley was on a lease 😉

Decided to play with some long exposures a few nights ago.  Some were too long and some were not long enough.  It’s a fine line really.  Either way a tri-pod is obviously required.  I need to go back and re-read the manual, but I stumbled on a setting in my 5D II where with a Bulb setting you can set automatic noise reduction.  After shooting without it I can see how that would be greatly beneficial!  Here are a few shots from the other night of the Perseids Meteor Shower. 

Just a quick note to let everyone know that if you’re every heading to fly at SkyVenture Colorado you can see my artwork on display.  Here is their announcement.  Hope you enjoy!

Just updated my gallery with my Tear Sheets.  For those that don’t know, its fairly common for anyone who has had work published one way or another to build their portfolio of work that has been published in one location.  One way to accomplish this is with Tear Sheets.  The term comes from back in the day when you would literally ‘tear the page‘ out of a magazine, thus adding one more page to your tear sheets.

Long story short, this is where I’ve had my work seen over the years.   To view all of my Tear Sheet, please visit my Tear Sheet’s Gallery.  Enjoy!

Between the Gallery Wrapped Canvas that adorn my walls as well art that has been on display at shows, I have several pieces that I’m offering at 10 – 15% off their normal price simply because I have them in stock.  Each piece has been signed and has been on display so there might be minor wear.  Please ask about a particular piece if you are curious.  There is a link below to the In Stock list.

Please take a look at the pieces that I have In Stock.  Shipping is included in the price displayed for the Continental USA only.  International orders please contact me for a price on shipping.

It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then I actually have a picture taken of me.  I guess that partly explains why when picking up the last issue of Parachutist I flipped right past a full page ad that PD ran with me in it!  Ok, maybe it was that and the fact I’m wearing a friends helmet that’s 2 sizes too big and someone elses rig, but either way someone else had to ask if it was me and I said….’Oh Yeah!  That’s IS me!’  Good times!  This shot was taken by Nik Daniel while we were jumping at Palatka shooting the entire PD Armada for future ads and other marketing material.

Both of these shots were taken while jumping Performance Designs new Optimum Reserves.  The shot below I took while flying a PD OP 143.  Not only is it a great canopy, but it can give you a real nice swoop as well!

It took 16 years and 4 attempts, but I finally made my first Balloon Jump.  I’ve tried several times over the years but wind, rain and clouds kept me from jumping out of a hot air balloon.  I hooked up with Michael at Life Cycle Balloons who took my buddy Stephen and I on a quick flight just north of Denver.  Looking down we found a nice high school field just waiting for us to land in.  Here are a few shots from that fun!  Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Stephen made a quick video of the jump from both his angle and mine.  Check it out!  Thanks for the jump, best one I’ve done in a long time!

The 4th of July weekend was spent down outside of Dallas, TX at Skydive Dallas for their annual American Revolution Boogie and state freefly record attempt.  If I was getting complacent about living in Denver and enjoying the weather a bit too much, a weekend trip down to a humid climate reminded me what it was like.  Just to make sure there was enough moisture in the air, and to give us a challenge jumping, a hurricane came ashore and provided both.  Nonetheless we not only managed to dodge the weather just in the nick of time and get a new 23-Way Texas State Vertical Record, but we got in some great jumps as well!

The deep blue sky with wisps of clouds provided the perfect backdrop for the jumps on Sunday.  The forecast for rain was a bust and we had fantastic weather.  What a great way to end a boogie! 

If you’d like to check out the full gallery of shots including the SkyVenture Colorado duck drop please check out my gallery of the event.  Leave a comment here about what you think of my new gallery website.  I’m looking for all the feedback I can get!  You can also get there via brianbuckland.com and clicking on 2010 Events under My Photographs.