Sal Shoots Professional Photography

How could we forget The H.O.T. Rally??????

2010-02-08T21:53:00.000-08:00

Well I did, temporarily anyway. The H.O.T Howl-O-Ween Biker Bash, Groesbeck, TX. In spite of the rain, the party still kicked it up Texas style. Halloween Costumes on bikers, interesting for sure! Here's one of my favorite customers, a sweet southern bell from Louisiana on an amazing chopper too!

And these two HOT Mamas, they work hard for Texas Motorcycle Riders Association, Don't Mess With Texas holds true with these gals when it comes to bikers rights! Check out their website www.texaspoliticsbikerstyle.com.

Three Sisters-the heart of hill country-riding heaven!

2010-02-08T20:26:00.000-08:00

After our wonderful visit to The Big Country, rejuvenated, geared up for our next adventure, we headed south again, Hill Country or bust. Three awesome riding roads, highways called FM 335, 336 and 337; affectionately called The Three Sisters. Cool Texas towns all around Medina, Leakey, Bandera and the friendly and welcoming Frio Canyon Motorcycle Stop. The whole crew are so gracious, we loved hanging with them. A must stop for riders of Three Sisters. Thanks Bob and Robin, we'll be back! We were so excited to set the studio up with their beautiful view as our backdrop. Check it out:

We had our nights to ourselves, not many after dark riders, too many curves, hills and suicidal deer. But the huge Texas Sky was amazing at night, no city lights, so many brilliant stars. Even though we sniffed out the camper door for smelly wild hogs before stepping out at night, this was the only hairy beast we incountered. Don't tell this little guy someone is after your bike-he gets really pissed!

More awesome customers, I am so fortunate to meet so many people in love! Give's me hope for this crazy world!

The Big Country--- getting to know you........

2010-01-29T18:07:00.000-08:00

I've been having fun remembering our ventures however I promise to keep up once I catch up, now when that is, well, you'll just have to check in once in a while. Mean while the story continues....

Remember my mentioning it's 200+ mile to about anywhere in Texas? This trip was that and more, lots more, miles and miles of miles and miles more. Since we traveled to the Big Country why not check it out for a bit. We met some real nice folks here and invited to hang with Jay and Buster and have some fun with our other new friends. Buffalo Gap is a cool little Texas town, tons of history, even before the wild wild west! The coutryside is so Texas, mesquite, cedars, cacti and nasty little teeny tiny burs that poke the shit out of you! This is red dirt country, that's some crazy dirt, looks cool but don't get it wet, slimy sticky squishy oozing flowing turn the rivers and lakes red, crazy dirt. Actually this area is quite beautiful, I was pleasantly surprised. Frontier Texas towns, all with there own character. We thought the Windmill Farms pretty awesome, would love to do a photo study of them someday. Here's a few pic's for now, I love the giant Armadillo! We're in Texas now baby!

Off to Abilene

2010-01-10T17:52:00.000-08:00

Over the valley and through the mesquite to the ZOPS Rally we go. Back north through Austin, damn that traffic jam, then northwest towards Brownwood through rugged and rocky; cactus, twisted oak, mesquite and cedar covered Texas style northern hill country. Passing by countless goats, donkeys, horses and those famous REALLY HUGE Texas size steers. Past the PORK BUTT FRIDAYS sign, too bad it's Wednesday. Never more than a few miles from the nearest BBQ.

Our dinner stop town is next; Goldthwaite, which is really hard to spell let alone pronounce, especially since Texans seem to omit E's and do strange things with syllables. Peabody's Restaurant on the main drag was our destination, we like the family small town chow. We chowed all right; Texas Beef Steak Dinner for Two with all the fixin's!

ZOPS Rally in Abilene, our final stop. Interesting experience this our first rally in the great state of Texas, one could say life changing but isn't that most days. We made new friends though, one was even a singing cowboy named Truman; this tall Texan sure could sing, for hours too, amazing. This shot I did for the rally at Dyess Airforce Base, that was an unforgetful experience........

Texas Hill Country

2010-01-09T19:30:00.000-08:00

Wow, Texas Hill Country is amazing, rocky hills covered in mesquite, twisted oaks, cedars, not Michigan swamp cedars, southern water suckers whose pollen will git y'all's allergies. Speaking of twisted, ride a Hill Country road! More on this later, from the Three Twisted Sisters.

And they have Kangaroos there! No kidding! Giraffes too, Zebras, exotic animal huge auction houses too; going to rename this state Texafrica.

The Yankees are comming.......

2010-01-09T18:00:00.000-08:00

Texas is HUGE! Every thing is bigger in Texas; these here Texans like to say. Everything is 200+ miles away I know that! Actually I knew that going in; just that the vastness amazes me, every new terrain, Texas has many types, all with a beauty of their own.

Heading diligently west then south past Dallas, Waco, Austin, damn that traffic jam, past San Marcus and finally to our first home base in New Braunfels. At the edges of Hill Country, waiting for us to explore, check out Shoot Mobile Studios potential future and ours.

Here's our first trip to Medina Lake!

Arkansas

2010-01-09T17:20:00.000-08:00

Packed it all up and hit the road towards Texas, made it to the beautiful Hot Springs Arkansas area, with a slight detour to find an RV spot; Adrienne saw their billboard. Getting into dark-thirty we headed down an unexplored highway, for us anyway. Well past dark-thirty, more like so F'n dark you could not see a thing except the narrow vegetation shouldered roughly paved very steep and windy road; did I mention it was dark; with strategically placed signage TAKE WIDE TURNS that led us to Cloud Nine RV park; the name should have given us a clue........

Only to be warmly greeted by the very kind owner of the park and saved by a very well placed cozy pull through spot, yeah baby! We woke to an amazing fog in golfed wonderland. Yet again to encounter Cloud Nine's keeper-we think an angel-she warmed our travel weary hearts and gave us encouraging words and off we went, Texas or bust!

Hogrocktoberfest

2009-11-03T13:18:00.000-08:00

Our first rally on the road was Hogrocktober near Cave In Rock IL. You can find out more info on hogrock.com, they have the fall rally and then another in June. We have to say this was a really fun event, beautiful location, good people, good music and we will be back to this one. We made some new friends, Big Sue, Rita, Mark, Chris, Quinten; just to name a few and some of our vavorite vendors were there. We even got Cowboy and his really awesome horse in the studio! Shot our first calander man too! There's a few stories we cannot tell, not a 'G' rated event for sure. Here's a few picks, enjoy!

2009-11-03T10:47:00.001-08:00

More Cave In Rock photos!

On The Road, Leaving Michigan

2009-11-03T09:27:00.000-08:00

September was crazy busy for Sal and Adrienne getting all our poop in a group to hit the road. But we pulled it off and headed for our first stop in southern IL. The wind about blew us away pushing the RV all over the place, especially as we passed by Chicago. Called the windy city for good reason! Sal's arms were still feeling the grip of the steering wheel as she layed down that night, road weary but excited to be sarting the first leg of a lot of unknowns. We pulled into Cave In Rock State Campground in the middle of the night, finding a campsite to fit the RV with the van on the car dolly was our first adventure! We woke to a beautiful site, rolling green grassy tree covered hills all around us. Within a short time we were having coffee with our neighbors and now friends, Mike and Donna. We thought if this is any sign of things to come this is going to be a great adventure! We took a ride with Mike and Donna to Cave In Rock, what a mystical awesome place! Right on the Ohio River, a cave with so much history, indians, pirites, outlaws and who knows what took place there. We explored the area, sat on indian mounds and even found an arrowhead. The rock formations held faces of indians, it was sooooo cool! The photos will tell a bit of the story.

Sal Shoots very first blog entry

2009-08-25T12:29:00.000-07:00

Hello to the world wide web. I thought since I am in the beggining of a big adventure it would be fun to start a blog. A journal of my life on the road living like a gypsy, taking my photography skills on the road with my new business called Shoots Mobile Studios. A traveling commercial and portrait studio which is marketed moslty to the world of bikers. Motorcycles are beautiful and so are their people. Yeah, beautiful bikers; who would have thought. I have an awesome assistant now, Adrienne, more like a partner really because without her this whole gig would be hard to pull off. We have been meeting all kinds of people and have stories to tell although the names may change to protect the innocent. We'll keep an update on all the events we attend, rallies, cool places to ride and visit. We are just completing a season in Michigan and promise to turn out the lights when we head to Texas next month. It's been tough for the people of Michigan and wish wish them all the best as we head south for the winter. Check back soon and we'll tell you all about our summer here in this beautiful state we leave behind, not to worry we are loyal and we'll be back next summer. Hope you all enjoy our entries!