So as much as I do not like the heat of the Summer, the beginning of the Summer is kind of my favorite time of the year outside of Winter. At the beginning of each Summer comes along the teasers for each ski and snowboard movie. The time in between the end of the season until now is usually filled with anticipation of what the film companies are going to come out with, especially the ones I work with throughout the season. It’s great to see a final video piece filled with clips of my ski season I was fortunate to be a part of and also to see all the footage from the other crews I didn’t work with.
Level 1 Productions is one of the crews I work with throughout the season, especially out here in Utah. Check out the teaser for their movie for 2008 named ‘Turbo’
For higher quality versions check out these links in Quicktime Format: 720p (210mb Quicktime .mov file) 480p (100mb Quicktime .mov file)
I’m really stoked on this. It’s the best work they’ve done as of yet. I’ve been working very closely with Rage Films since the beginning of my career and it has been great seeing the progression we have both made throughout the years and seeing friends put together solid film segments. I can’t wait for the full movie. If you like the music as much as I do, go check them out and their album “Oracle Spectacular” - MGMT - Myspace page and their website - www.whoismgmt.com
So, it only ended up being a little over a month straight on the road, a lot less than I had expected. 4,424 miles later I’m finally home and editing through the rest of my photos from this season. I’m super stoked the season is out, it’s been really long but it’s been a great year but am really looking forward to this summer. Here’s a few photos of some of the Spring shoot features I got to shoot on over the past month. My ski shooting season is officially over. I’m pretty pumped.
So im 950 miles into my Spring terrain park shoot at the first stop in the 2 months of Spring madness. 12 hours later through Utah, Idaho, Montana and back through Idaho I’m back at my home mountain from college at Schweitzer Mountain Resort in Sandpoint, Idaho for the Poor Boyz Productions Jib Jam. Here’s a few photos from the road.
Wow, we brought a shitload of gear in the backcountry on some sleds! 2 Generators, 5 light stands, 2 filmers and their gear, 1 skier and myself with 3 strobes, 2 power packs, a pile of speedlites and light stands and then my camera pack. We got shit done, I’m really stoked and I can’t believe how much effort went into one little shot. Here’s a photo of the sleds with all the gear, Dan and AJ from Rage Films and Kyler Cooley. I was too stupid to put the camera on self timer and get in on the shot. Oh well. Blew it.
So I just went to Quebec City to shoot a bunch of urban, imagine that!So I’ve been planned to shoot this trip for a feature in next season’s SBC Skier Magazine the past 2 months but we had no idea the monster of a storm that would roll through. Temps at -10F, lots of wind, 3-4 feet of snow, massive drifts and even an avalanche in the suburbs! Surprisingly enough we were busted a lot at a lot of the rails and jibs we were doing, slow going on the gnarly roads, frostbitten toes, (fortunately for me, not mine) etc made it for quite an interesting experience to say the least. Oh, one of my strobes literally exploded on the inside. It started smoking, then went off like a firecracker and stopped working. Heh, that was 2 days into the trip! Then some more speedlites broke too!
So now I’m sitting in DIA in Denver right now waiting for my connecting flight back home to SLC that I missed due to a late plane yesterday. I got to stay the night in Washington DC last night, fortunately in a hotel but stuck in DC none the less. I also just missed my flight from SLC to Seattle for Christmas and now get to fly there on Christmas day for $100 more than I had planned.
All that being said the trip was successful and the daily trips to the gun shop (shoveling out rails buried with 3-6 feet of drifted snow) at least got me doing a little more than I usually do on urban trips. Note to anyone going to QC, most of the rails are dug out for you now. Enjoy!
Here’s a few random photos from the trip. Check out the rest of the action photos in one of next year’s mags.
