Skiing & Snowboarding photography

Shooting up at Big White again, this time for a private group.
Camera is Canon 20d, lens is 28-135mm IS

To The Arctic And Back

A few years ago I took a gig filming a documentary on diamond mining in the far north Canadian arctic. It was a fantastic trip and the film received much praise. The story of the trip has been reprinted in numerous places, but I'll point you to my friends at DVinfo.net as that version includes photos.


"We squeezed into a classic DeHavilland Turbo Beaver ski plane from a bygone era of aviation, and took off for the great white north. It was close to a two hour flight, and the terrain changed drastically, from forest and frozen lakes in Yellowknife, to absolute barren frozen tundra, with the only signs of man being oversized trucking roads plowed through frozen lakes. Landing in a ski plane on a frozen lake covered in snowdrifts in gusting wind was unlike anything else I’ve landed. It was more like racing a speedboat over crashing ocean surf. One second you are on the ground, the next back up in the air, the next plowing through snow, the next bouncing back up in the air. It really was more like a controlled crash than a landing. Still any one that you can walk away from…"

Read the rest here:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=44994&highlight=arctic



And for fun, a few photos:

Big White Photos Sessions

Spent the last week at Big White shooting landscape prints. Thought I would share a few choice stills. The shoot went very well, despite my press pass getting screwed up and not being able to get access to the lifts until they opened to the public. Still, it got sorted out. The sun didn't start to cooperate until the last couple days of the shoot and I squeezed off the following. The last one is me. Canon 1D mkII - Sigma 12-24mm, and Canon SD800 for the last one.