Fitness Photography

Raleigh, North Carolina Fitness Photography

With all the ups and downs of commercial photography, there is one thing I never want to stray away from, and that’s fitness photography. No matter what is going on in your life, fitness should always be an answer. Have a bad day? Go work out. Bad week? Go sweat. You never regret working out, but as they as, you’ll always regret not working out. Sort of comparing apples to oranges, but I also get an immense amount of satisfaction from documenting others working out. Just being a fly on the wall for the sufferfest is almost as good as getting my own sweat.

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San Diego Fitness Photography - Person doing a kettlebell workout with a tattoo that reads "Strive for Greatness" on his back.

Strive for Greatness

A person working out in an empty warehouse gym in San Diego, California. Bear Republic Gym.

Raleigh Fitness and Health Photography

A guy working out with kettlebells at Bear Republic Gym. San Diego Fitness Photography.

Fitness Photography - Raleigh, NC

An athlete with large blisters on his hands after an intense workout. San Diego Fitness Photos.

Health and Fitness Photography - Raleigh, NC

Two girls high five each other after an intense workout in a gritty gym. San Diego Fitness Photography.

Health and Fitness Photography - Raleigh, NC

An athletic girl sits on a medicine ball after an intense workout at a Crossfit gym. San Diego Fitness Photography

Aaron Straker - Nutrition Coach

Aaron Straker - Fitness Photography

My travels have taught me a lot of things about how to live and not to live. It’s all personal opinion of course, but one thing I’ve become very passionate about is living your own life. One that makes you happy. And it always makes me upset seeing people spend their whole lives working a job that they hate. I don’t understand it at all. My buddy Aaron Straker (below images) is doing the opposite of that. For the past 8-ish years he’s been working for a company in San Diego as a senior software engineer. A job that he probably liked ok, but it’s certainly not what he loves to do. Well, last month he quit that job to focus full time on nutrition, and very soon he and his girlfriend (also a nutritionist) are moving to Vietnam to start their own business over there. At some point they will move back to the states, at which point they plan on pimping out a sprinter van and literally taking their show on the road. These type of decisions are ones that 99% of people can make but never do. I applaud him for it and hope that his decisions inspire other people to do something with their own lives.

Follow him on Instagram @aaron_straker and his girlfriend @jennythenutritionist

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Southern California Fitness Photographer

Gym Shark Photo Shoot

Health and Fitness Lifestyle Photography

Been a long time since I’ve posted some commercial work, but here are a couple outtakes from a shoot I did for UK based fitness apparel company Gym Shark. They make really nice stuff and gave me a lot of freedom to shoot pretty much on my own, which I always love. The athlete just did his thing and I did mine. No real staging of any kind. Good times.

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San Diego Crossfit Photography

Bear Republic Crossfit

More experiments with sweat. As always, just looking for those different angles.

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