One of my favorite novels from college was “Being There” by Jerzy Kozinski. The film adaptation is one of those very rare occasions in which the motion picture may actually outdo the written word, in this case, due solely to the magnificence of Peter Sellers … Read More →
Tag Archives: Canada
pages 12 & 13
The 2011 Powder Magazine Buyer’s Guide just arrived in the mailbox and with it the first glimpse of the print version of the 2012 DAKINE campaign for the Tanner Hall Collection. I’m pretty stoked to have pages 12 & 13 plastered with two images I … Read More →
More Faces
Continuation on a theme from yesterday’s “Faces” blog post with more images from the Retallack parking lot. One slight variation is the addition of a few color images. I tend to really lean heavily on black and white processing for my portraits. Not sure why … Read More →
Faces
I think my favorite place to shoot portraits is the parking lot of a cat skiing lodge in remote interior British Columbia. Sounds about right, eh? Over the past few years I’ve had incredibly consistent results in this location and there are several reasons. The … Read More →
Powder Bubble
17 1/2 hours of driving with over 400 miles of snowpacked roads and a complete tossing of the truck at the border had me back in the powder bubble that is Retallack late Thursday night just in time to catch Karl the Gnarl’s daily ode … Read More →
page 63
Day 1 of the 2010 Red Bull Cold Rush was one for the ages. The weather was perfect, the snow was hero and the Texas Peak venue was littered with myriad options of insanity. The athletes had no course inspection other than from across the … Read More →
pages 81 & 84
The Winter 10/11 issue of Kootenay Mountain Culture just shipped and I’m so stoked to have been able to contribute a few images to Mitchell Scott’s tale of the 2010 Red Bull Cold Rush at Retallack, BC. Having spent over a decade now traveling in … Read More →
pages 18 & 32
I love trips to the mail box like today’s, they make everything all worth while. I’ve been a bit like a kid waiting for Santa for the past few weeks anticipating the arrival of Freeskier’s Nov 2010 issue. Much love to the Freeskier staff for … Read More →
Stoke Lab Interviews from Cold Rush
I haven’t shot or edited video in over 5 years so this was a bit of an experiment. I think it turned out ok. It was also the first time I was shooting video on a dSLR, the Canon 1dmk4, so it was a pretty … Read More →
CR
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 →
Retallack
Spent the past few days up in BC for our annual gathering at Retallack Lodge. It’s amazing to think that we’ve been making the pilgrimage for a decade now. Great friends, great skiing and great hospitality are the hallmarks of this trip and this year … Read More →
Insert rider here V 2.0
When your empty frame makes a good image your action shots get a lot easier. Here’s one scene two ways. Yeah, I know the sled shot is a re-run….deal with it! The light and the curves really do something special in both of these images. … Read More →
Insert rider here…
Like the snow, light is fleeting. The best light occurs in small windows at either end of a day. In these windows time seems to move at triple speed. Here’s what could have been a skiing shot we were scrambling to get in position for … Read More →
Another day on the glaciers…
Headed up into the Brandywine area outside Whistler today and tried to shoot some skiing via sled but we were struggling to find decent snow. Most of the good snow had been thrashed by slednecks and what remained was for the most part wind and … Read More →
X-mas day on the Pemberton Ice Cap
After quite the adventure with Canadian Customs in Vancouver, Tonka and I were allowed to enter Canadia and arrived a bit later than we’d hoped we would in Whistler on X-mas eve. Maybe it was the fact that these border agents had to work on … Read More →
Best In Snow
For the next few days the ESPN.com/action home page is rocking a shot of John Spriggs hucking his meat over a cat road up at Retallack Lodge in BC. Check it out while it’s still live… http://espn.go.com/action/?topId=7085662