Category Archives: Check This

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Retallack: The Movie

The official trailer for Retallack: The Movie, the Inspired Media Concepts project I was working on at Retallack, BC for nearly 7 weeks this winter has finally dropped.  Very cool to see the still images I’ve been staring at for a few months come to … Read More

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Pink Buneh

There’s been no shortage of epic stuff to feast your eyes on over the first 3 days of Dew Tour action in Salt Lake City this weekend, but the coolest thing to go down thus far had nothing to do with pro athletes or competition.  … Read More

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October Powder Magazine just arrived and much to my delight there’s another tiny morsel of success in it.  I’ve managed to slide an inset portrait into the piece on Ian Provo along with the epic birds eye view that Blake Jorgenson shot from the heli.  … Read More

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Two blog posts in one day?  I think this is worthy…page 58 of the Powder Gear Guide (Vol. 39 No.1 Sept 2010) has a tiny photo of mine on it.  It’s so small that I actually missed it the first time flipping the pages.  It’s … Read More

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Live Music

Looking into the Double Door (and the heart of the Chicago music scene) via the window on Milwaukee Ave on 9/23/06.  After “Hard to Sleep“, this is my favorite street capture as it evokes such good memories going back beyond the Double Door’s existence to my … Read More

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MAM

As I prep for a trip back “home” to Chicago to actually “work” as a photographer for the first time,  I find myself wondering how the past 3 years have affected my image making and what that will do to my interpretations of the city … Read More

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West Loop Memory

Another image from the archives, this time inspired by a Facebook post from a friend living in the old hood in Chicago.  She snapped a sunset image tonight and as soon as I saw it I knew the exact water towers she had shot as … Read More

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“Hard to Sleep”

It’s been a bit of a grind this spring to get through the ski season’s magazine submission sorting process, but the upside is that it always seems to involve some sort of archive rummaging procrastination.  Sometimes you stumble upon hidden gems that you overlooked or … Read More

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10/8/83 – 2/24/10 Last March I was invited to attend and shoot the Red Bull Cold Rush at Retallack.  As a total newbie to this industry it was both exciting and terrifying.  Walking into the lodge was a mix of emotions as I was surrounded … Read More

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Tracks

I shot this scene from the Alta parking lot yesterday really just to document the avalanche and skiing activity for fellow back country users.  Some of you have keener eyes than I do and after some serious cropping to a 100% zoomed image we seem … Read More

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Mountain Sports + Living magazine Winter 2009 issue

Special thanks to Shaun Raskin and Ned Lindner as well as Julian Carr at Discrete Headwear for scrambling to make a very last minute and rather desperate lifestyle shoot happen.  Shaun and Ned walk like nobody’s business.  True pro’s.  Creating winter in September is not … Read More

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Don’t Screw Us .org

Just because you find an image on the Internet or have access to it, doesn’t make it free. Think before you swipe that photo! http://dontscrewus.org

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Can’t wait to get my hands on one of these…

Perya (Town Fair) – a Canon 7D Short from Jason Magbanua on Vimeo.

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Zimtstern “Leaves”

Pure brilliance. It’s just sublime. Bravo.

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Canon 7D ~ this should be interesting

Announced today, the Canon 7D  ( 7D review from Rob Galbraith) (Canon USA) seems to be showing the next evolution in Canon’s dSLR technology in a big way.  The new AF system is front and center here and def. has the hopes of Canon shooters … Read More