I hate keeping secrets. So when I picked up a call from an unknown California number sometime in July I knew I was in for a world of hurt. Now don’t get me wrong, the call in and of itself was perhaps the single greatest … Read More →
Tag Archives: Retallack
Powder
As we slowly creep our way toward the darkness that is the winter solstice, the early setting sun starts to wreck havoc with my evening motivation. Luckily the lifts are spinning and just enough snow has fallen to offer some consolation to the dire lack … Read More →
ALL.I.CAN.
I love this title. It resonates somewhere deep within me as a hopeful metaphor of possibility and a reminder to keep pushing, to take just one more step, make just one more call, send just one more email, or to peak over just one more … 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
Golf Balls To The Wall
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 →
Retallack: The ESPN Gallery
ESPN.com ran a little gallery of my images from the making of Retallack: The Movie which is available on DVD as well as a digital download. If you need a fix of the uber deep pow, this 28 minute flick will not disappoint. Gallery link: … Read More →
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 →
CRow
Mountains are sacred to many of us for many reasons, and for some of us, Retallack is a special place amongst the sacred mountains. This was my 13th trip over 11 years to Retallack. From a gaper customer, to covering two Cold Rush events, to … 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 75
Something funny happened today on the “throne”. Revelations often come at odd times in odd places but this was truly a “holy shit” moment. SBC Skier’s 10th Anniversary issue arrived over a month ago and somehow I missed this image completely. This is truly astounding … 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 →
Backcountry
The Jan 2012 issue of Backcountry Magazine marks my first appearance in the publication which is nice. A few portraits of Ian and Neil aka The Provo Bros. help flesh out the “O Brother, Where Art Pow?” feature while Ian bum rushes a pow alley … Read More →