It's Not About Pretty

 Photographer Ian Logan Over the holidays I used my time off to continue to work on a personal project I have been doing for the past year with photographer Ian Logan .  A series of images we are calling “Walking Through the South”. This time we concentrated on Alabama and found some really great locations during this adventure. All images were shot with an iphone 5s as it was easy to carry, & we could upload to instagram from just about anywhere we were throughout the day and we didn’t have to stop to do it. I posted multiple images daily via my instagram account ( @sportsstylist ) so people could get a sense of where I was, and what I was seeing /experiencing. Using the hashtag #walkingthroughthesouth we noticed that during this time we gained quite a few social media followers daily – perhaps due to the fact that we were posting images throughout the day that were appealing to a diverse cross section of people – creatives, travel, adventure, and f...

Photos Tim Tadder / Stylist: Cindy Whitehead I had the pleasure of styling climber Tommy Caldwell in these Powerbar ads a few years back. Today Tommy and his climbing partner, Kevin Jorgeson are the first climbers in history to free climb (using only their hands – no ropes used to assist in the climb – only in case of a fall) El Capitan’s Dawn Wall in Yosemite. The Dawn wall is considered to be the most challenging climb anywhere. Congrats Tommy & Kevin!  Stoked that I get to work with inspiring athletes like this!