KrughPhoto

Head on over to the new blog folks

Allen — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:09:41 +0000

Yep, it’s right here at http://www.blog.krughphoto.com. Take a look around – constantly adding more content and images. Also, you can find me on twitter here http://www.twitter.com/Krughoff.

Branding Overhaul Underway

Allen — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:43:45 +0000

New blog, new logo, new color palette, new new new. As my work has been redefined, the KrughPhoto brand needs to be redefined as well. Giving my current and future clients a better representation of what level of product they can expect from me is the goal. Stay tuned for the changes. In the meantime…twitter: Krughoff

Not too late to have your Senior Portrait taken

Allen — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:50:26 +0000

The yearbook deadline is coming up quickly in and around Boulder, Colorado for Senior Portraits. We have a flexible schedule these next two weeks, and with a quick turnaround, you can still get a quality senior portrait shoot this close to the deadline!
Check this link for more information:

KrughPhoto.com Senior Portraits

A sample from last week’s shoot….

Senior Portraits in and around Boulder, CO

Allen — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:01:22 +0000

Boulder, Colorado – based KrughPhoto LLC will be doing senior portraits this fall! More details and samples to follow…

Das Vine-Hoff

Allen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:51:00 +0000

Today was the epic creation and planting of the Krughoff Vineyard here in Boulder, CO. You could call it the “Krug-yard” (redundant however, as “hof” is german for “yard,” so really you’d be calling it the “yard-yard,” and that would be boring) or, the “Krug Vineyard” (but then we’d be infringing on these guys–>

Krug Grande Cuvee

Some cellar of Krug Champagne

Charles Krug Winery Napa Valley California

Or you could call it the Vine-Hoff (“vine+yard”). So it’s been decided, it will be referred to as the Vine-Hoff! And here’s how it happened…

The plan:

Plant grapevines that will 1. look nice, 2. produce enough grapes to one day make a bottle of edible red wine, and 3. grow tall enough to one day hang on the cable rail of the deck over the carport.

The challenge:

Colorado has a few grape growing challenges. 1. Heavy, clay-like soil around my house. Therefore, deep ripping via gas-powered auger seemed necessary in order to provide both adequate drainage of the soil through the “hardpan” (super hard soil layer) as well as to loosen soil beneath the vines to allow the roots to penetrate deeply, and the second challenge of climate – Hot hot summers and cold cold winters, so a hardy grape variety is essential. Lots of time on the Google, and awesome recommendations from Rist Canyon Vineyards led me to pick these…

Two vines of each:

Frontenac
Leon Millot
St. Croix

All mail-ordered from Vermont @ Northeastern Vine Supply. They’re bare root stock, meaning they look like dead sticks with some roots hanging out! Already budding as they soaked in water today and slowly warming up over the last few days – I think they’re gonna come through in a big way. Fingers crossed. It wasn’t a simple process…

Step 1:

Weed it and rake it clean!

Step 2:

Rent a massive post-hole auger from Home Depot (Auger bit modeled by Kevin Suhr)

Step 3:

Put it together and dig some holes!! Yeehaw

Step 4:

Pull it out of the ground, throw out your back, etc.

Step 5:

St. Croix #1 goes in the Boulder soil...

I'm pretty excited, needless to say

Step 6:

All 6 vines in the ground!

Step 7:

Voila! Das Vine-Hoff!! Mulch and weed barrier will hopefully keep maintenance low, stakes and trellis to come soon.

The main pieces left are a deer-net to prevent the local wildlife from snacking on our vines, a seperate zone for drip irrigation of the vines on the automatic sprinkler system of the house, and the permanent trellis system to get those vines nice and high near the deck. Deer netting tomorrow, irrigation upon return from the 5 day long bike race in Hood River, OR and trellis after I come up with the final design. Until then, make it go and let it grow.

Out of town racing…

Allen — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:11:10 +0000

I’ve been on the road for almost 10 days racing in Bisbee, AZ and Silver City, NM at the Vuelta de Bisbee and The Tour of The Gila, respectively. About 2 hours away from riding out of the house to the criterium course for Stage 4 of the Gila before our big 105 mile day tomorrow on the “Gila Monster” road race course. Lots of climbing and an expected 5+ hour day of racing. Looking forward to the criterium, expecting a field sprint at the end and hopefully netting a resume-worthy result. Time will tell!

E Bella Designs, Vic’s Espresso

Allen — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:35 +0000

Vic's Espresso Track Cycling Team

Necklace by E Bella Designs

Restructure!

Allen — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:21:42 +0000

I just finished entirely restructuring the organization of KrughPhoto.com. Back when I set it up, I thought I’d be doing a lot of event photography and selling prints online. Turns out I actually do much more catalog and portrait work in addition to the action and event stuff. Sooo, 3 hours later everything is moved around! If you had links to display photos on other sites, they’re probably all broken – apologies. However, moving down the road, this will be a much more streamlined setup!

In addition to that, I’ve been adding to my photoshop knowledge and working on some images I already have from some of the Chelsea shoots, etc. Checkout some recent portfolio additions below…

Desaturated Treatment, model: Bri Cooper

Lighting Experiment, model: Bri Cooper

Holiday Portraits

Sha, dude you want the non-attenuating cable, obviously

Allen — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:38:14 +0000

So I’m trying to get a few different projects going focused on mixing ambient with flash light. This, combined with my irritation at synch cords while doing work for Chelsea resulted in the semi-impulse purchase of a pair of pocket wizard plus II’s. These are wireless flash transmitters that make the whole operation neat and tidy instead of cables running everywhere – cables which make great trip lines for errant toddlers and dogs. Regardless, I thought they’d be invaluable/essential working with flashes at greater distances. I’m going for a few different setups which might encompass the following ideas…

Late afternoon ambient light w/flash fill in cycling/mtb/cyclocross.
Sand volleyball at night, super vivid/saturated, commercial look
Architectural photos at dusk/night with household+flash lighting

So I finally got the flash issue I was having figured out. I needed a different cable than what comes packaged in those transmitters, so I headed to radioshack. Couldn’t get the signal to go through from the transmitter to the flash unit, and after 2 of the same “defective” cables – I realized I was defective. I was using an attenuating cable, which I just thought was some fancy word that wasn’t important. Wrong. Quick look on dictionary.com and turns out that “attenuating” decreases the signal running through the cable – obviously, right? So nothing was getting through this cord. Well, the guy at Radioshack was much friendlier when I came in and some idea of what I was talking about. Small victory of the day, now time to get some projects going…picture posts to come

Commitment

Allen — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:57:28 +0000

: As cycling news put it, -Halloween wasn’t over for some riders today- Photo by Jonathan Devich

A nice photo of Logan Garey here. If you can’t have fun in a cross race the day after Halloween, when can you? Logan had a great time racing, I had a great time racing and I think most everyone had a good time watching. I think I’m still getting the sand out of my ears though…