After shooting with my current roomate Max Kuszaj since the start of my career 9 years ago we landed first cover. Max is the first pro I began working with way back in the day when I used to work over at The Canyons Resort as the staff photo/video guy there. This shot is one of those sunset powder shots I’ve been trying to make work for the past few years. Alta is such a good zone for these types of things as there are so many zones that are quick to get to, which is so important with shots like this as they take so much setup time and gear. Powderhound magazine is a ski magazine out of Australia which I’ve been working with for the past few years. Hopefully this is the first of a few more this season!
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So for the second year now, Level 1 Productions has used one of my photos in and ad for this season’s move from a Spring terrain park shoot at Copper Mountain, Colorado. This year it’s Mike Riddle going absolutely massive on the step over jump that was more like a cross between a hip jump and a step over tabletop jump on steroids! The Copper Mountain shoot this season proved to be as successful as in seasons past and I can’t wait to get out there this coming Spring!
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In September, while I was shooting a story in Chile I got an email out of the blue from one of the editors at Popular Photography Magazine. They had decided to add a how to shoot skiing photos for their “You Can Do It Too” monthly column in the magazine. I was super stoked since I hadn’t known anyone there and the request seemed to come out of nowhere! Unfortunately where I was staying at the time in Chile, my internet was pretty limited, as was my access to the photos they wanted for the column so I wasn’t able to do the ski one.
As it turns out though, they were stoked on my concert photos and I got to write a ‘how to’ for concert photography for the same column in next month’s issue, the January issue. They ran one of my favorite shots as a spread with another as a supporting to follow. I don’t work a lot with many magazines outside of the snow action world so it was pretty sick to see the shots in print.
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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.
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So why not, Winter is coming and I just posted the other recent ad for Scott USA of Justin Dorey. Here’s the first Scott ad of mine from this season of Tim Russell. I was kind of on a theme of shooting what I’d like to call “backcounty urban” this season. While it’s completely an oxymoron it’s one of the only ways I can think of to describe a lot of what I shot this past ski season that was really successful for me. It was urban-type features, but out in the middle of nowhere in the backcountry, usually snowmobile accessed. Most of these shots required a ton of work to get all the lighting equipment out there and for me to get out since I’m not exactly a sledneck!
This shot of Tim Russell was out on this shack that I shot on previously the season before but came back to it with a different approach. I’m pumped with how it turned out in print, especially since it was a crop of just a 6 megapixel shot.
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It’s been quite a while since my last blog post so I thought I’d put something recent up. Here’s the 2nd Scott USA ad this season with one of my photos. It’s in the December 2008 issue of Freeskier Magazine. This shot came from a Level 1 Productions shoot at Copper Mountain, Colorado last Spring. I look forward to this shoot every season beceause Copper always builds us some great terrain park features that I always get shots on, some of the best of the season. For this particular day, Copper cut out two 20 foot wide gaps in the walls of the Superpipe. Justin Dorey was doing some huge alleyoop flatspin 540’s across the transfer gap.
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Yes, it finally happened! I finally got that magazine cover in the continent I actually live in! This shot is in SBC Skier Magazine out of Canada. This shoot was crazy, had all the recipie for complete disaster however turned out to be the most successful single photo shoot I’ve ever been to. We had wind, rain, a deteriorating pipe, more wind, more rain, some gloppy snow, yah the weather was interesting! It did work out to say the least though, so far it’s gotten me 2 covers with 2 seperate shots, and a few other pretty big sales and a bunch of other editorial coverage. I couldn’t be more stoked as I got to shoot in a pipe the way I had envisioned shooting it at night and it paid off in every sense. Huge thanks to Dan Norkunas and AJ DeSaint Phalle at Rage Films and the guys over at Tamarack Resort, and of course to Mike Mertion for hitting that pipe hit at least 15 times when I had it setup like this for making this shoot happen.
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