This photo was taken at Mammoth Mtn. on my last shooting day for the winter of 2008. The rider is Zac Marben and that guy can do a handplant on anything at any speed...this one being 2 miles per hour. The dude on the chair immediately to the left is , at the time, newly appointed Vans TM Doran Laybourn.
Mark Landvik sends a very stylish Stalefish through a burnt forest deep in the Coastal Range, B.C., Everyone who saw this photo loved it, but alas, it found no home. Welcome Home.
Here's another unused photo. Right after Scotty nailed this the police took all my stuff. I was pretty bummed but Scotty and Grenier have a quick tongue and convinced the pig to give my gear back. Thanks guys.
Last Southern Hemisphere winter, I went on the trip of a lifetime to Argentina for SNOWBOARD Magazine with the Vans team and Larry, who at the time was the editor of the mag. He's a pretty rad dude and loves snowboarding big time. On one of the last days, we ended up hiking out to some epic terrain and I snapped this photo of him charging down some of the steepest terrain, I've ever been on. It was pretty hairy standing on one edge to get this photo, but essentially, I am looking straight down, but not down enough so you can see my board in the shot. That's what it looked like.
This is another one of those pinhole flash photos I take sometimes, this time on polaroid. Brandon Rein is kind of a legend here in South Lake, Hella good skater and film maker. This photo was taken at about 5pm in the old Bijou Skate park in Broad Daylight. I used an Elinchrom Ranger at full power with a High performance reflector about 12 inches away from his face. He told me that it messed up his eyes for a long time. Sorry BE!
(This was taken same day after above portrait)
This photo was taken at the Ozone motel in Quebec City. Jonas and friend Nick Dirks with the brilliant idea of self piercing their noses while we sat at the downstairs bar. Fully inebriated, and with the help of Transworld Filmer, Gary Milton, we decided it would be a good idea to try and document it. This is the result and one of the most successful photos I have ever taken. Hope you like it, Jonas was in a lot of pain.
p.s., check out both Jonas and Nick in the new Videograss movie coming this fall
p.p.s check out the Nick Dirks Cheesedicks SUPER edit here.
I shot this photo with Tim Eddy a couple years back in Quebec city, Quebec. It never ran for whatever reason but was one of my favorites. I was just beginning to figure out my technique for black and white, which involves a color overlay and a blending mode in Photoshop. Anyways, Tim is a great guy, just positive as all hell. I haven't seen him since Hood last summer...I wonder how's he's doing.
