High Cascade Day 1

So the time has come for me to visit High Cascade Snowboard Camp! Today was technically the second day, but we'll call it the first just because it was the first day on hill shooting.
Had some lectures and talks with some pro photographers which may or may not include Andy Wright, Tim Zimmerman, Trevor Graves, Bud Fawcett, Mike Yoshida and Christy Chaloux. Just a small cast of big photo stars, here to teach us the trick of the trade and show off their best work.

So since it was the first time up to the top of the mountain, i didnt know quite what to expect. I mean we've all seen the videos that come out of HCSC with tricks going down left, right and centre with a huge line up of pros and other such talented snowboarders. And to tell you, thats exactly what its like in person. Soo many things happening all around you, having a hard time trying to focus on one feature.

But in the end, i feel like i scanned the place pretty well and got a good number of shots. I got the lay of the land down, and ready to go for the next several days. Its only been one day, soo much more to come in the future!

Here is a sample of what has happened so far! Why dont cha.

Watkins Glen Race Report

So this weekend, I travelled to Watkins Glen New York to watch and shoot some racing. Many different kinds of cars racing, from Ferraris, to open wheeled Formula cars. Things got a little crazy at times with cars spinning out into walls, and others climbing onto their opponents cars. In the end the races were all action packed, and lots of racing fun. My step dad Jeremy was the reason we were down there, he is number 00 in the red Formula B car in most of these photos. He had a successful weekend, winning one race and coming second in the second race.
The racing world is a very fasted paced and fun thing to experience, I hope everyone can experience it at least once in their life. Just remember to get as close to the track as possible and get ready to cover your ears. One of the coolest things life has to offer.

Enjoy the Photos!

Winner of the Transworld "Your Turn Photo Contest"

So this actually happened several weeks ago, but i figured I would wait till I could confirm things with Transworld and High Cascade Snowboard Camp. I have been talking to the Associate Photo Editor of Transworld Snowboarding in the past few weeks, seeing if this is actually true and happening.
The breakdown of the contest goes as follows: Anybody and everybody would submit their own "Season's Best" photos onto the TWS website, and this would continue for several months until the people at TWS would pick a winner and show some honorable mentions. I submitted two photos, two of those photos were posted on this blog, one was of Brad Hesson doing a bs nosepress in the streets of toronto. The other was of Spencer Kaleb doing a huge air in the Downlow contest.
Clearly they preferred the shot of Brad, considering it won the whole contest! There was some tough competition that i was up against, but luckily and thankfully i came out on top. Never would I have thought I could win a photo contest put on by transworld snowboarding. There are many many good photographers out there and im glad to be considered one of them.
I will be heading to HCSC August 5-10 to take part in their summer photo workshop week, where i will be working and shooting along some highly acclaimed snowboard photographers and other people who are deep in the snowboard industry. Should be an amazing experience and I cant wait to take part in it. Its a fantastic opportunity to do something big in the snowboard photography world.
Here is a link to the winning page on Transworld to check out the winning shot and the others who i were considered with.

http://snowboarding.transworld.net/1000125794/featuresobf/your-turn-photo-contest-seasons-best-winner-announced/

Thanks to everybody, especially Transworld snowboarding and High Cascade snowboard camp!

Colourful=fun

So this if from a recent photo shoot, originally supposed to just a basic black and white shoot. A little bit more low key trying to keep things dark. Then i discovered the fact that i could use the flashlight app on my iphone to spice things up a little. After trying several different colours and shutter speeds, finally got the the final product that you see. I feel like its still quite dark and mysterious but still has a little kick for some fun to it, because thats what its all about!

Heres some more photos of downlow

Here are a few more photos. Both of Matt Bujok's double backflip.
Two angles. No Way!

Downloww

Sunday presented itself with the Downlow contest at Mount St. Louis moonstone. Its one of the biggest contests of the year in ontario and the best all around the province come out to show their stuff. The park is completely overhauled to accommodate the skill level of these riders and it certainly showed when first looking at most of the obstacles. First starting off with the gap to flat box, gap to down box. At first riders were taking some pretty hard falls but once they got the hang of it tricks were getting wild. Next the little booter, once again tricks were being thrown left right and centre. After that was the flat down square rail. Who would have thought that someone could beat a gap front 270 indy to boardslide or even a gap front blunt same way? but somehow they were beaten. Pause for lunch and a side of heavy metal of course. Then the big booter. Trick after trick were landed including a double backflip by Matty Bujok which was huge. Then time for some kids to get techy on the stair set. Bagels, 360s, pretzels, tailslides and indiangivers basically anything you can think of were successfully landed and with ease some could say. Then the big bertha of an obstacle, the pole jam like to a 40 or 50 foot death gap. At first a little unsure if people were actually going to hit it at all or not. Then it started and things were done never thought possible. Started with a backflip off the box here to a back 3 off the tube there and slowly worked its way to the winning trick; a front blunt 270 same way done by dialogue's own Pat Hrivnak. INSANE.

That is a sum up of the whole day basically. Now you were basically there if you missed actually being there. And if you were there i bet you just had deja vu. Weird isnt it?

Well here are some photos to cap it off!

Hope you enjoy them! more to come, just too awesome to be let out to the public that easily. Sorry.

DIalogue teaser

PS. heres a little more of a sample of what the dialogue crew has been up to lately.
Check it out and i hope you enjoy it.

http://vimeo.com/9963985

If you enjoy it, take a look at this:

www.d-h.ca

Shooting

Just been shooting a little bit lately. went out with the dialogue crew for a night and shot at El Toronto. Pretty awesome session. few tricks landed. Good job on those ones guys.

Heres a little sample of it for you guys to check out.

Little update...why not!

Hey, how goes it folks?
Havent been shooting too much lately, ive been too busy getting bills paid, which is equally as fun!
But I did attend a pre season snowboard session last night. Which means that snowboarding and snowboarding photos are coming soon enough!
Also just been doing real estate jobs. Which isnt too exciting for most.
And then a little side project i had in my head for awhile. turned out pretty neat i suppose. Some things could have been a little better, but what can you do? Why dont you have a look!

Pretty exciting!

Have a good one!
Check back for some more awesome stuff!