Yoga World Champions

Bikram Yoga Stoughton held a Sunday morning class with Joseph Encinia and Yukari Miwa, yoga world champions. Video slide show is here.

Postcards from Colorado

Video and slide show from a road trip in Colorado is here. We visited Boulder, Denver, Paonia, Fruita, Grand Junction and Redstone. Good food, good beer and great company. The Paonia Flim Flam arts festival had local, oragnic food and locally produced films.

Congratulations to Beth and Bob

Congratulations to Beth and Bob, who were married on August 28, in Newport RI. They were married on the beach and they partied in Swansea MA. More pictures here

Ravali

Congratulations to Ravali, who had her arangetram on August 14. More pictures are coming soon

Congratulations to Minerva

Minerva's arangetram was on July 10. More photographs are coming soon.

Mike Lee Kanarek

Mike Lee Kanarek trained a large group of students at North Easton school of America's Best Defense. He is the master teacher of Haganah, an advanced form of Krav Maga. He reviewed several defenses and taught some extra tactics for when/if things go wrong. His teaching style is unique, with a humorous mix of stories, hard work and playful verbal abuse!
Pictures here soon...

America's Best Defense Black Belt Awards

Here is a five-minute edit of the black belt awards at the North Attleboro High School. This features stills and video, shot with the Canon 7D. Audio track is from the Zoom. The show was several hours long, so this is the result of quite a lot of editing. Thanks to Master Garcia for a moving and inspiring show. Some day soon, Alex and I will be on the stage, so I'll need a photographer...

Thanks, Dad

Dedicated to my Dad, who taught me lots about light and optics. Today would have been his 78th birthday. Gracias, Senor.

A bad check...

MLK: 'the riches of freedom and the security of justice...'
Now is the time...

Red belts

Alex and I were awarded red belts in Krav Maga last Thursday. If white is a 1, and the black belt is is a 10, this is an 8. Next comes half red/half black; then the black belt in hopefully another 12-18 months. Congrats to the students who survived the tests yesterday to earn their brown belts. Pictures are here.

Some of the best things in life are red

It took less than a minute for word to get around, that we had restocked the bird feeder. Snow here is up to about 14 inches.

This was a studio session at America's Best Defense in North Easton, MA. I shot pictures of three instructors and some of the advanced students in action. This is a mix of self-defense moves and karate jumps and kicks. Thanks for a fun photo shoot to all who were involved! Pictures are here.

Congrats to Payal and Mohit

Congrats to Payal and Mohit, who were married in Boston, recently. More photos are here.

A kick to the head...

This was another Krav Maga brown belt test. This class ranged in age from mid-twenties to over 60; all of them tough and well-trained students! The test involves a review of about 18 months of Krav Maga curriculum, including self-defense tactics, about 6 different combinations of kicks and punches and a couple of tests of endurance. You have to run a mile and complete 75 push-ups; 50 of them non-stop. After this, they sparred for about 30 minutes, changing partners every minute or so. You sleep well at night after a workout like this. More stills and video are here.

Congratulations to Mohini

Congratulations to Mohini, who recently celebrated her arangetram in Sharon, Massachusetts. Thanks for the pleasure of being there and shooting the dance event. Pictures are here.

Congratulations to Nupur

Congratulations to Nupur, who celebrated her arangetram recently, in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. I was honored to invited to photograph the event. Pictures are here.

leehammondphotography.com

The domain squatters have pulled the home page from leehammondphotography.com. Please go to leehammondphotographer.com until we can move it to a new server. Please never use HostOnce as a domain host. They are bad for business and are refusing to release my domain name.

Congrats to Beccy & Michael

I was invited to the wedding reception of Beccy and Michael yesterday. I am friends with Beccy's parents, so I have known her since she was..ummm...very small indeed. They didn't have a pro photog covering the event but they did have lots of people with cameras; and some crazy idea for people to download their images before they left. Here are some choice images. As you can see, Beccy really doesn't like to be the center of attention.

Sensei Tiano photo session

This is Sensei Tiano from America's Best Defense in North Easton, MA. This was a 10 minute session [including setting up the lights], so I was shooting as quickly as possible, in between classes. After we had the easy shots, I wanted some cool action pictures. I asked him for some kicks or jumps and he explained that he wasn't really warmed up and didn't want to damage any muscles. So this is not a full-action Axe kick? No, not very high at all. More here

Spring in MA

A 10 minute garden session with the G9. I notice I am not sneezing like last year. More pictures here