There is a well known saying that what goes up, must come down. With most of my outdoor activities (like hiking in the backcountry or being on a road bike) an uphill slog is always rewarded with some downhill motion. It?s often what keeps me going. This weekend though I took part in [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/16/18/91/161891.gif[/IMG]
I’ve always flirted with the idea of timelapses but have never really seen one through. I guess its always been a case of not being too inspired to make one. This year though i’ve spent a lot of time with Josh over at Level 1 Productions who is a timelpase machine. He always [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/05/41/23/54123.gif[/IMG]
This year i’ve struggled to find a lens i’m happy with around the 28-70mm range. I originally had the old Canon 28-70 2.8 which i absolutely loved. It was built like a tank and took beautiful images, that is until it was stolen. I hope someone is still making great images with it [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/04/01/54/40154.gif[/IMG]
I’m really happy to announce that from today i’ll be an occasional contributor over on the ESPN freeskiing blog. It’s great to be associated with such a prominent company and i’m looking forward to future posts i’ll be making later in the year. To start it off there is a gallery up from [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/93/39/39339.gif[/IMG]
A month ago i hooked up with Level 1 Productions for their springtime park shoot programme. I joined forces with skiers Parker White and Chris Logan as we drove from Tahoe to Idaho to Colorado and back to Tahoe clocking up roughly 2500 miles and a whole lot of great stories. The word [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/85/45/38545.gif[/IMG]
The Sun Valley shoot was put to bed last week and we made our way across country over to Breckenridge in Colorado. We arrived here into what seemed like mid winter as snow was dumping all around us making this spring shoot feel more like february time. This morning though we woke up [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/81/59/38159.gif[/IMG]
Those of you over in the UK probably couldn’t escape the fact that over the weekend there was a rather big deal wedding happening. It was estimates by a number of news sources that 327 million photos would have been taken during that day. A screenshot from the awesome BBC [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/79/90/37990.gif[/IMG]
Parker White getting a ride to the top of the drop in For the last 10 days i’ve been up in Idaho at Sun Valley Resort with Level 1 Productions. Sun Valley have been amazing to us designing some of the craziest features including a 110 foot “volcano [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/78/86/37886.gif[/IMG]
Towards the end of last week i got the chance to visit San Francisco for the first time. Time was limited to pretty much one day and after the 27 hour train journey over from Colorado my legs were ready to take on the hills of the city. It’s going to be a [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/76/20/37620.gif[/IMG]
This summer I?m entered into the Mont Blanc trail race over in Chamonix. The course covers 14 miles with the majority of the race being uphill and at altitude. During the season I?ve been training as much as I can often running through the snow after a day on the hill. A few [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/73/91/37391.gif[/IMG]
It was good to get out and about on an urban mission with Australian snowboarder Tom Pelley during the week. He’s been on a magical mystery tour of the states for most of the season so we took advantage of being in the same place at the same time and went for some [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/69/70/36970.gif[/IMG]
Yesterday i made the trip over to Denver to talk camera bags with the guys from F-Stop. Spring was in full effect and i was sweating walking around in a jumper in the midday sun. Arriving back in Frisco yesterday evening i was surprised to see that the weather pattern in Summit County [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/60/71/36071.gif[/IMG]
A week has gone by since arriving back in the States after this years Japan trip and sorting through the images it’s funny how much a certain thing appears again and again and again; the little white van. As you can see from the top image a [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/53/57/35357.gif[/IMG]
Thursday was one of those never ending days. I spent the early hours of the morning attempting to beatbox in a karaoke booth in Sapporo after an evening of intense drinking. I woke up to the realisation that it was indeed 6.30am in the knowledge that my counterparts, who slept soundly in the [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/49/06/34906.gif[/IMG]
Just before i left the States for Japan i got the chance to meet up with Colby from F-Stop Gear whilst over in Denver one snowy afternoon. After a productive meeting Colby sent me on my way with the companies latest camera bag, the Loka. I’ve always had a love hate relationship [...][IMG][/IMG]
My japanese adventure with Level 1 Productions has just come to an end after two weeks of shooting in Hokkaido, the north island of Japan with a great crew consisting of Tanner Rainville, Wiley Miller, Parker White, Jimbo Morgan, Josh Berman and Tatsuya Tayagaki. During the trip we experienced such a variation in [...][IMG][/IMG]
I’m one week into a 2 week filming mission with Level 1 productions over in Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. I’ve been dying to get back over to Japan since i used to live here and i leaped at this opportunity to get out here shooting in the backcountry. The days are [...][IMG][/IMG]
The SIA trade show in Denver is one of the biggest gatherings of the snow sport trade under one roof. Buyers and sellers hurry around looking at next years product whilst getting the low down on everything that is going to be hot next year. I’ve had a funny relationship with this trade [...][IMG][/IMG]
Yesterday was one of those never ending days as i left English shores and headed stateside for the X Games which are beginning tomorrow. Taking full advantage of my Canon S95 9 which these days rarely leaves my hands) i put together a very quick and chopped up timelapse of my journey over [...][IMG][/IMG]
I realise this gets said every year but didn’t this one go so quick? It feels like only yesterday that the year kicked in and now here we are staring at 2011. 2010 will go down as an interesting year for me, with a couple of lows and some amazing highs. You could [...][IMG][/IMG]
