Friday, December 2, 2011

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

PERU!



We survived our South American Excursion! Highly recommend a visit there. Fantastic history and ruins from the Inca, colonial buildings from the Spanish, amazing trekking, monasteries/churches from the 1500's... Maureen is a fantastic travel companion and it went incredibly smoothly considering it was our first international travel excursion together.

Night busses are a bit epic with oxygen deficit and overheating issues because the windows don't open. Cruz del Sur was by far the best bus option...

Met a climber/photographer at the Huaraz hostel of La Zarela (which caters to climbers) in the shadow of the Cordillera Blanca. He phrased it well when he said "It's hard to take a bad picture here.

Monday, July 11, 2011




check out thehighlyacclaimed.com

The Highly Acclaimed blogs...




wahoooooo! new mag set to be released upon North America this week!!!

Monday, June 27, 2011

The Highly Acclaimed Magazine...

http://issuu.com/thehighlyacclaimed/docs/thaissue1?mode=a_p

The Highly Aclaimed is about off the presses! I snuck in quite a bit of work into it--pretty excited to see it printed!

Thursday, June 9, 2011

The Ojai Magazine




Feature just out for the Ojai Magazine!

Monday, May 16, 2011

Wednesday, April 20, 2011



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links to some recent adventures with kayakers and new gear...

Tuesday, March 29, 2011



I had a cover and feature with photos in Desert Leaf... http://npaper-wehaa.com/desert-leaf#2011/03/26/?article=1214568
About failures in wilderness objectives, something intimately familiar with...

Friday, March 25, 2011

Lowe Alpine Calendar...



Heading up to attempt the Grand Teton in 2009 but it proved a bit too cold to summit for desert dwellers... lots of ice and snow. brrr...

Friday, March 18, 2011

PDX



image © Bennett Barthelemy

Dusk along Portland's waterfront... PDX is one of the more attractive cities for sure... I think my camera dropped acid when I wasn't looking. The result was not planned for but I like it.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011



© Bennett Barthelemy

Shooting lots of kayaking lately... Rain, mist from falls, slippery rocks in lots of dripping wet forests. Rapping in over mossy loose basalt blocks for pics for 4 seconds of shoot time of a 70 foot falls... An awesome challenge and some amazing extreme athletes!

Also working for new stock agency, www.tandemstock.com

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Ojai Quarterly, Imagining Ojai...




Signed on as outdoor columnist for Ojai Quarterly, styly regional mag from Southern California... The magazine was hot off the press, today, February 22.... this is the first installment!

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Volleyball




Volleyball... My first real experience with it last night in Portland, Maureen brought me to watch her play at the co-ed club team night... Seems I can't just enjoy an outing without bringing along the camera... Realized shooting volleyball would take some knowledge of the sport, some better equipment, technical know-how etc etc but fun and great learning experience shooting-wise, and understanding a bit of the intensity required for the sport. Eyes tell it all!

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Nation Geo image from Tassie...

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/best-trips-2011-photos/#/8-tasmania-female-climbing-boulder_30441_600x450.jpg

this is the link to an image of mine from a trip to Tasmania in 2008 from Nat Geo Trveler...