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Quick Pic 5 – Joe Schuster at Mt. Bachelor – Bend, Oregon

15Jul10

A few weeks before this shot was taken, I was at the exact same spot, shooting on a larger version of this jump with Poor Boyz Productions at Mt. Bachelor in Bend, Oregon. We waited around for about a week for the weather to improve and it just never seemed to get the way we wanted so I bailed out for a few days down to Mammoth Mountain, CA to shoot with Level 1 Productions. A few days later I came back up to Mt. Bachelor to shoot with Rage Films for another park shoot and I got the weather I was hoping for and the shoot went off. It was one of those shoots where I got photos every day that ended up running in a mag somewhere. Needless to say it was a good couple of days with a really fun crew of young up and coming kids.

After shooting on this jump in the morning we took a big break and came back just around 6pm to get going on this again to shoot around sunset. Joe Schuster was one of the only ones that stuck it out about an hour after the last light was on the jump to wait and ski for the sunset photos. I shot this scene with a pretty standard kit of lighting for me on a jump with an Elinchrom Ranger RX AS Speed with an A-Head, Alien Bees 800, Alien Bees 1600 along with my DIY battery packs with Pocket Wizard Plus 2 transcivers and a Nikon D3 with a Tamron 28-75 f2.8 LD XR Di SP lens.

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making of the shot – November 2009 Powder Magazine Shooting Gallery

26Oct09

I did another making of the photo interview with Sam from Powder Magazine for their November 2009 Shooting Gallery monthly feature on their website. This shot is of Derek Spong doing a corked 7 off a hip jump on the Outback side at Mt. Bachelor, Oregon during the filming of “Pretty Good” by Rage Films.

Check it out here at http://www.powdermag.com

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Gallery showings, come and gone…well one might be passing through.

28Sep09

The Poor Boyz Productions world premiere of Every Day is a Saturday has come and one in Seattle, as has the Rage Films Salt Lake City premiere of Pretty Good. I had some prints up at both shows, thought I’d put a few pics of the prints up. It wasn’t anything super fancy but was nice to have my work up, and see it big. If the premiere of Every Day is a Saturday hasn’t come through your town yet and you want to see some of my shots big, then check out the premiere. I have four prints travelling with the PBP Triple Threat tour. For more information click here.

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Gallery showing Friday, September 18 at the Rage Films premiere of “Pretty Good” in Salt Lake City, UT

15Sep09

I’ve decided to put on a last minute show during the premiere of this year’s Rage Films movie “Pretty Good” at the Skybox Bar and Grill in Salt Lake City, UT on Friday, September 18. I will have a collection of large action prints from 10″x15″, 16″x24″, 20″x30″ and a 24″x36″ on metal as well as a small collection of lifestyle shots that were all taken during the filming of the movie “Pretty Good” this past Winter. All the prints will be available for sale at very little markup from the actual cost to print and mount these photos from $50 for the 10×15′s, $75 for the 16×24′s, $100 for the 20×30′s and $230 for the 6-piece print hung on metal.

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Rage Films “Pretty Good” DVD box cover photo

11Aug09

I’m stoked. Why? This is the third year in a row Rage Films has gone with one of my shots for their DVD cover. I spent a lot of time with the Rage crew, of course a lot this Spring as well at the park shoots. The last three have come from those park shoots as well, last year this one at Stevens Pass, WA. This year, the little Asian brother Derek Spong got the cover. It’s from the shoot at Mt. Bachelor in Bend, Oregon. If you haven’t seen the teaser yet from the upcoming movie “Pretty Good” check it out here.

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Check out my photo gallery on espn.com

05Aug09

I’ve been working with ESPN.com for a bit now in their action sports part of the website providing photos. If you haven’t seen them, check out the Zoom galleries they put out every month. I usually have a photo in there amongst the other action sports. I just finished putting together a gallery for the espn.com/action site so check it out of you get a chance. Angeli VanLaneen, Julian Carr, Tom Wallisch, Ian Cosco, Mike Riddle, John Strenio, Wiley Miller, Fabio Struder, Jossi Wells, Matt Walker, Corey Vanular, Rage Films, Pep Fujas, Kyler Cooley and Max Kuszaj are repped in the gallery.

http://espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/blog?post=4377795

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Pretty Good – Rage Films Teaser

17Jun09

Pretty Good Teaser by Rage Films from Rage Films on Vimeo.

Most of you guys that are following my blog have already seen this teaser but for those that haven’t, check it out.
This is the 9th ski movie put out by Rage Films - Dan Norkunas, AJ DeSaint Phalle and Hennie Van Jarsfeld. It’s always great to see what comes together after working with them shooting still photos all season and I’m stoked to check out the whole thing. The movie features Kyler Cooley, Dylan Natale, Mike Mertion, Ian Cosco, Joe Schuster, Derek Spong, Mark Dvorak, John Strenio, Alex Schlopy, Gus Kenworthy, Giray Dadali, Cody Ling, and Joss Christensen.

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Home, Spring park shoots are over!

27May09

7246 miles (4584 miles on the road), 47 days, and 7 terrain park shoots, and 43,225 dead bugs on my car later my season is finally over and I’m finally home back in Salt Lake City, Utah. This year’s Spring terrain park shoot season was shorter than last year, but the amount of travel between shoots really wore on me this Spring. It was nuts actually, and home never looked so good. My own bed, my own space, not working on my slow laptop, and having my golf clubs, being able to sneak out for some golf in the work day, everything, all the comforts of home…finally! However, it was all completely worth it. I got a lot of great action shots with a lot of the usual people but also some new faces. I got to spend some time with some good friends I don’t get to see a lot, visit new places, see family, oh and to find out that 4th gear in my Civic tops out at 130mph!

Also in this trip I did a lot of fun portraits, spent some time working more on capturing the lifestyle side of things and shot a lot with a Holga which was pretty fun. Shooting film, the mystery of wondering how things are going to turn out, especially with the thought of a very inprecise piece of camera equipment, adding in the mystery of how cross processing is going to turn out made for some fun stuff. I just sent it all out to Panda photo lab in Seattle, WA and I’m really excited to see how it turned out. I’m really anxious to see how it all plays out with the good ol film. It’s been at least 5 years since I shot any film.

Once I hit the road back home, I was all in, from Bend, OR to Hood River, OR to take a few portraits, then finally home to Salt Lake City, UT. Did it all straight through, starting at 10am in Bend, then arriving home in Salt Lake City, UT at 3am. I probably should have stayed the night in Boise but I was determined to sleep in my own bed ASAP, so 17 hours later I was there, at home, in my own bed and was worth every second on the road.

I’ll have a bit more later with some random photos from the spring in a few days.

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The Spring Madness begins!

19Apr09

Nine days into my spring terrain park shoot season I’m finally updating my blog. I started my spring shoot season out at home at The Canyons Resort in Park City, Utah which is where I used to work in marketing before I moved on to photography as my full-time job. It was super sick to have big park features finally at my old stomping grounds, especially since my bros Andy Marston and John Hall (ex terrain park crew there) were the cat drivers that built most of the features.

John Symms tapping a log swing at The Canyons Resort in Park Cit Rage Films had piggy-backed this shoot after the Snowboarder Magazine Super Sessions and we had 3 days on the features that were there. It was definately a collection of pretty unique terrain park features, however we had didn’t luck out like the Snowboarder Magazine crew and had a bit of bad weather so we pretty well focused on 2 features, the log swing and the hip jump with the pine tree growing out of the deck! The crew was comprised of Kyler Cooley, Dylan Natale, Ian Cosco, Giray Dadali, John Symms, Tim Russell, Craig Coker, Angeli Vanlaanen and Macrae Williams.

Once the Rage shoot was finished with I got to head out the next day for an epic 16 hour drive to Seattle to go see my brother who was on leave for a bit from his tour in Iraq. The drive was pretty rough, was pretty tired and had to drive through 50 miles of black ice in the Blue Mountains of Oregon. I thank the Oregon Department of Transportation for doing nothing as usual to keep their roads in order as a simple layer of sand would have made the drive much faster.

So, 12 hours after arriving in Seattle, I packed the car back up and hit the road to Mt. Hood Ski Bowl in Goverment Camp, Oregon to hit stop number 2 in my Spring park shoot season with Poor Boyz Productions. The PBP crew was comprised of Matt Walker, Alexi Godbout, Nick Martini, Kaya Turski, Andrew Hathaway, Ben Moxham the Brit – Leigh Powis, along with Fimers Pete Alport, Jeff Thomas, Ross (sorry I can’t remember your last name), T-Rob (the intern) along with photographer Matt Stouble and myself.

The weather had still not left on day one of the shoot as we shot our first rail feature with a total of 10 minutes of sun breaks so the first day went down in the clouds. Day 2 brought us the sun that was supposed to go away, however we lucked out and at the end of the day after 2 different jib features the clouds had still not rolled in. We dodged a bullet for day 2. Day 3 brough us good old Pacific Northwest drizzle, rain and fog and a well needed off day for myself. I got to finally catch up on some editing and had a break from the long days. Day 4 was supposed to be the first jump day, however a mechanical problem with the snow cat pushed back the jump building an extra day and most of the day was spent chilling on the lodge deck relaxing and taking a few lifestyle shots here and there. I’m looking forward to tomorrow as it’s the first day on the jump and its coming together real well. It’s big, with a big landing, the skiers are stoked. Here’s to day 5 and the next 4 days of sun forecasted!

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FreestyleSki Magazine Cover

05Dec08

This cover was quite the nice suprise in the mail today! I took this last season at a Rage Films night pipe shoot at Tamarack Resort, Idaho. This is the 3rd cover from that shoot so far, which has turned out to be the single most successful photo shoot I’ve ever done. This time around it’s Jen Hudak on the cover. It was a pretty big issue for me with 15 shots inside the magazine so I’m pretty stoked about that. It’s been a pretty good season for me on the editorial side, hopefully there are a few more of these covers coming. Right now the count is at 4 magazines and 2 DVD covers. If you want to check out the previous two covers from the shoot at Tamarack Resort click here for the SBC Skier cover of Mike Mertion, and here for the Australian and New Zealand Skiing Magazine of Davina Williams.