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InvictaFC 1 Fight Night Gallery
We were in Kansas City last week to shoot Invicta FC’s first event and I am happy to share my photos from fight night. We’ll have more video for you soon, as Casey is compiling an excellent video for you all. And no, I did not have any BBQ while in Kansas City as I [...]
Invicta Weigh-Ins
Watch the Invicta One weigh-ins and then check out the weigh-in gallery for tomorrow’s first ever Invicta Fights and don’t forget to tune in for free and live on InvictaFC.com, 8 pm eastern!
Invicta Fights Photo Shoot
We are in Kansas City for Invicta Fighting Championships. Yesterday, we did portrait sessions with the fighters from midday to midnight. I am pretty beat but we still have so much more to do! So many of these women I photographed when I first started covering fights! I am excited to see so many of [...]
Strikeforce Barnett/Cormier Feature Gallery
I took a quick trip up to San Jose last week to steal some stills while Showtime Sports shot their promos and features for the upcoming Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix finals on May 19th AND the rubber match between lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez and Josh Thomson. The short trip was lovely and I was able [...]
Samurai MMA 2
We stayed busy while UFC took its six week hiatus that I like to refer to as “tax time,” by going to Albuquerque and hiking Chaco Canyon, and trying to keep up with events in Los Angeles. This past weekend Casey and I shot the Samurai MMA Pro event (some amateurs opened the night) at [...]
Siyar and Mayhem: Punch Buddies
Just out after a hard week in training, Jason “Mayhem” Miller and Siyar Bahadurzada hit up an arcade for a little fun. You can watch Siyar Bahadurzada fight Saturday on the UFC on Fuel card in Stockholm, Sweden. Definitely tune in because Siyar’s been tearing it up outside the UFC for a while and I’m [...]
G.L.O.W.
After watching Noah puro resu in Japan, we’ve been on a pro-wrestling kick. I think I was just a year too young to really get into it, but Casey was definitely a fan. Either way, I’m jazzed for this documentary on GLOW. I love how the trailer starts, with the question about what little girls [...]
Tokyo Days
Through our work here at MMA Fighting, we’ve had the opportunity to travel the world covering MMA events. UFC 144 took us to Tokyo, Japan, and we wanted to share our experiences not just in bringing you photos and Ariel’s interviews from the fights, but also our experience of the city. We were fortunate enough to have [...]
An Evening with Ariel and Quinton
We hit the streets of Shinjuku with Ariel Helwani and Rampage Jackson for MMAFighting.com. Casey walked backwards, 1.4 km in each direction to the arcade, Dean holding him by the beltpack to keep him from tripping while I snapped a few shots and watched for cars and bikes. It was a ton of fun and [...]
Frequently Asked Questions Pt 1
Yes, things have slowed down. Yes, it is because we are lazy jerks. But it’s always on MMAFighting.com anyway, right? This is more our random journey through life in MMA. Meh. We have a tumblr waiting in the wings to keep us more active. Really been digging Fightlinker’s. I figured I’d fill in the gaps [...]
Dude.
DUDE. Did you watch the fights?! Aldo vs Mendes? I am so sad I wasn’t there to capture this. But so excited to watch it as a fan! Dude!
My Favorite Photos of 2011
2011 was a banner year for MMA. More events than ever, new champs, organizations merging, fighters reinventing themselves, and fighters retiring. We put together this video of my favorite photos from 2011 so that I could share a little bit about each picture with you. I left out maybe 100 photos. I really couldn’t make [...]
Strikeforce Presser Highlights
What’s up dudes and dudettes?? We’re in the middle of Strikeforce fight week for Rockhold vs Jardine and I gotta say, I’m already beat. Today was insane-o but in the best way. We had a press conference midday flanked by studio work. While I was busy getting the portraits done for Strikeforce, Casey was clipping [...]
Best Of 2011 Interviews
Or really, Ariel Helwani’s greatest hits as compiled by the main dude himself, E. Casey Leydon. This was tons of fun and craziness to put together. And it clocks in at a ridiculous 50 minutes total… I think. I don’t know. Just watch! Or don’t. Casey only spent all of the holidays putting it together. [...]
元気ですか！！ Promos
Damn. We are really enjoying DREAM’s promos for the upcoming FIELDS Genkidesuka New Years spectacular in Japan. Now you can too! Whee. These are the kinds of videos you need to watch to wash G with a Gi out of your mind. Or not. I don’t know. This one uses my photos [...]
Interstitial
I know it’s not fair but I had to take a short break to package a ton of shirts, make tons of mix CDs, and to shoot production stills on the SHOSports feature shoot for Andre Berto vs VIctor Ortiz II. I wanted to let you know I actually have many posts in draft form [...]
Strikeforce: Melendez vs Masvidal
Here’s the gallery for tonight’s fights. I’ll post up a few words as soon as I get to a stopping point. Typing in the car is fun but making me a little queasy. Congratulations to Gilbert Melendez and to Jorge Masvidal as well for a great fight. KJ Noons looked fantastic in his return. And [...]
James Nachtwey
Nearly every time I find myself crying while looking at photos, I look down in the bottom corner and find James Nachtwey‘s name there. And I was so surprised when I was out shooting in Tokyo with Dan Herbertson when he asked me if I’d seen War Photographer, and I had not. I didn’t know [...]
The U of MMA
Sometimes, we cut a little time out to do things for fun, for art, to keep our fascination. We made this lovely video for our friends at the U of MMA. Right now, we’re sitting at the Pasadena location of Intelligentsia, one of my favorite coffee places in town because I enjoyed both an amazing [...]
Study Guide: Vermeer
While I didn’t go to any photography classes or school, I did attend film school and studied primarily cinematography (though, I got an A-), and documentary filmmaking. My many cinematography professors pushed watching films with the sound off to pay particular attention to composition and lighting, but stressed the watching of light in art [...]
Shirts Are Back In Stock
Yup! Shirts are finally back in stock and we have a new addition. A tri-blend lavender long-sleeved shirt with raglan shoulders (meaning it fits your shoulders no matter how wide or narrow) and a wide neck. It’s loose and slightly oversized, but shorter than our regular t-shirt. I like to pair it with leggings and [...]
Lost Photos
Shooting every week, sometimes I will go do a shoot and completely forget about posting the photos. Usually, it’s because it’s for a magazine and they’ll end up using one or two shots. Meanwhile, there’s forty or fifty winners just sitting on the hard drive, never to be seen. Here’s a couple from DREAM.16 in [...]
Recap Toronto
Day four. A sampling of random images from this past week in Toronto. I bought a fisheye attachment for my iPhone last year but we moved and I misplaced it for long time. Well, I dug it out and went a little overboard these last few weeks. Sorry. But here’s the result of that: [...]