Image of Lew Hollander in Oct. 2013 Outside Magazine

Check out the October 2013 Outside Magazine for my Lew Hollander image from the 2012 Deschutes Dash in Bend Oregon http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/Vital-Stats-Ages-65-plus.html

Image of Lew Hollander in the Oct. 2013 issue Outside Magazine

Images from the 2013 Sun Valley Bike Festival

2013 Sun Valley Bike Festival Compilation - Images by Timothy Chandonnet

Cick on text for a Slideshow compilation of photos from the week long 2013 Sun Valley Bike Festival in beautiful Ketchum, Hailey and Sun Valley Ski Area, Idaho.  Events included a 4 stage 2 day super enduro, Biathlon, state pump track championships, dual slalom skateboard contest,2 downtown criteriums,  kids races.  The week concluded for the USA Cycling Marathon Mountain Bike National Championships with the top marathon mt bike riders showing up from around the country.

2013 USA Cycling Marathon Mountain Bike National Championships Men 50-54 Winner  "Tinker" David Juarez approching the downhill section into the River Run Base Area in Sun Valley Idaho

Whatcom County Logging Roads

Images from some of my recent trips along logging roads in Whatcom County Washington.

Foggy sunrise on Timber lands on the hills above the South fork Nooksack River Valley in NW Washington

A tree stump resembling a face along clear cut timber lands in Whatcom County WA

Regrowth along a clear cut in timber lands forest in NW Washinton

Crazy and fun times at the Northwest Passage Ragnar Relay

Northwest Passage Ragnar Relay - Images by Timothy Chandonnet

JR Ski to Sea

Jr Ski To Sea - Images by Timothy Chandonnet

To purchase these or other images from Ski to Sea please visit Brunk Photo

Nature Found Me!

My mom always asks me how I got so interested in the nature.  I didn't grow up camping, hiking or with any real influential person urging me to enjoy the worlds natural wonders.  Honestly I am not  sure what prompted this liking to the natural world.  What I can say is that every morning I wake up I am thankful for another opportunity to explore, photograph and share the complex and unique natural environment that surrounds me no matter where I am.  Check out some of the things that found me on my journeys.Tim Chandonnet Photography

"Bellingham Abandoned"

Abandoned and ransacked home in Birch Bay Washington

Ever since I was little abandoned structures have fascinated me. I relate this back to living in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts during the first 18 year of my life, where I remember being awestruck by the run down homes and enormous mill buildings that were built during the American Industrial Revolution lying mostly vacant. To me it was like a ghost town, where everybody one day decided to leave, not take anything and just move on. I wanted to(and still want to) explore every inch of these buildings inside and out.
I first moved to Bellingham Washington during the winter of 2005 after my seasonal employment in southeast Alaska ended. I had been to Bellingham numerous times in the past, but still had not explored much. As I do with anywhere new I move, I walked, skateboarded, road my bike or drove up and down just about every road I could find. Searching out anything of interest to my creative eye. I quickly started to see a reoccurring theme during my travels, unused dilapidated buildings, barns and houses. So I started photographing them. One here, one there unsure of what I would do with these images. It was as though I was called in, invited to share the life and death of these places and their stories somehow through photography. That was the start of my personal project "Bellingham Abandoned".