Those of you who have followed my self-portraits for the past couple of years know that I really like to do jumping photos. They’re fun to shoot. I get a little bit of a workout when I do longer sessions. And did I mention that they’re really fun?
I’ve done so many jumping photos that many of my Flickr and photography contacts know me as “the jumping guy”. During the Strobist workshop a couple of years ago, David Hobby referred to me as “the guy who does all those jumping shots.” At the last Chase Jarvis Hangar Shoot, Chase casually mentioned that I would “probably be jumping around the hangar at some point during the evening.” Jumping is basically my thing.
All the jumping has also gotten me a bit of publicity. Earlier this year, one of my jumping photos was published in Popular Photography Magazine. I also had a couple of my photos featured on the Flickr Blog.
With that said, my jump shots have been few and far between over the past few months. There isn’t any particular reason for the lack of jumping, so I’ll just chalk it up to laziness and getting older (bad landings are really bad nowadays…). I’m going to change that up though. Jumping makes me feel good. Jumping photos make other people feel good (or so I’ve been told). Thus, I need to jump some more, and that is what I’ll do. They make for more interesting and fun self-portraits anyway. :)
I stumbled across your Flickr because of your jumping photos and have stuck around reading (looking?) ever since. Yay!