Fes el Bali, June 2010
This month’s calendar image is Morocco’s Imperial city of Fez, or more specifically Fes el Bali, the old walled medina of Fez. The shot was taken from the Merenid Tombs overlooking the old medina. Fez is one of my favourite cities for losing myself in. It is one of those cities where around every corner there seems [...]
Dust storm, fire, earthquakes and a #1 world ranking
What a weird time it has been here of late in Australia. In the last 24hrs the Australia has experienced a massive dust storm, bushfires, 2 earthquakes, hail the size of cricket balls, a windstorm and a tornado.
Network Blogs
Here’s a quick throw together post as I want to test something on Network Blogs. If you are a user of Network Blogs you can follow my exploits there. The photo is of the Blue Lake near Rotorua on New Zealands North Island.
Australia
So here I am back in Australia. Well, I have actually been back here for a while now. Its been an interesting trip back home despite the fact that I haven’t really gone anywhere since I have been back. Its been raining a lot since I have been back this year which is great. [...]
Out with the old…….but to where?
Finally, I have got a new computer. It has been a long slow painful wait for it to arrive but arrive it did and now I am trying to get myself back on track again. Not being a computer expert I am not quite sure what happened to my old one. I’m guessing the warranty [...]
Heli-skiing, St Moritz
Last weekend was spent down in St Moritz skiing around Corvatsch and heli-skiing on the border with Italy. I was graciously invited to go on the trip in order to shoot with Martin "McFly" Winkler and Matthias Haunholder. The faces in this area are long and steep and these Martin and Matthias certainly stepped up [...]
Spring has sprung
Spring time has arrived in St Anton which means its back-country kicker time. The weather has been warm and our generous snow-pack from the season is disappearing rapidly. The warm slushy conditions has made for some great kicker sessions. The next few days are supposed to hold a bit of rain which means some downtime [...]
Candide Thovex
Over this last week I have had the pleasure of shooting the talented Candide Thovex. Candide was here in the Arlberg for about 1 week to do some filming for his new project Candide Kamera. The majority of the days were snowfilled powder days as the snow continues to fall here. A couple of [...]
Generation Flinga
The last few days I have had the pleasure of shooting with a couple of Swedish girls as they travel around the world in search of adventure and snow making an all-girl skimovie. Sara Orrensjö and Janette Hargin passed through the Arlberg with cameraman Marcus Hansen in tow. Together with Nick Hayter and Adam Widen we [...]
Eric Pollard
I had the chance to meet and spend the day skiing with Line Ski team member Eric Pollard 2 days ago. Eric is travelling through the Alps on a promotional tour and will be chasing the snow around for some filming while he here. If you get a chance to say hello or go for [...]
O’Neill Big Mountain Pro
It has been an interesting week here in St. Anton. The start of the week saw the O’Neill Big Mountain Pro come through town. The contest takes 6 of the worlds best snowboarders, Jeremy Jones, Mitch Toelderer, Xavier de la Rue, Fredrik Evensen, Thomas Eberharter, Eric Themel and 6 of the worlds best skiers, [...]
Fieberbrunn Big Mountain
Yesterday I made a trip out to Fieberbrunn near the Tyrolean/Salzburg border to watch the qualifying round of the Big Mountain Freeride Tour. With a total of 10,000 Euros prize money, the contest has attracted 76 entrants from around the world all hoping for their chance to qualify for a spot on the prestigious ski [...]
Verse Films
Last week I had the pleasure of shooting with some of Europe’s top up and coming newschool skiers when they came to the Arlberg to film with the Finnish company Verse Productions. The three riders included Austrian Patrick Hollaus and the Fins Jussi Mononen and Roope Leppänen. Shots were taken in playing in the powder [...]
Coming Soon: Prints on canvas and paper
I have just spent the day in Kitzbühel talking with the owner of Kitzbüheler Fotowerkstatt, a printer who does some amazing work on both canvas and paper. I had never been too impressed with the quality of printing on canvas until I saw his work. The outcome of the day; a selection of my photos [...]
St. Anton Ski Opening Season 2008 – 2009
It’s been a busy weekend for me. I’ve been out shooting the Season Opening for the St. Anton Tourist board. They had a couple of races running including one of the longest slalom courses in the world through 140 gates and a vertical descent of 1000m. There was a selection of workshops running covering things [...]
New Website for Sunset Point Resort
I have just about finished building a new website for my friends over at Sunset Point Resort in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. I still have to add some photos to fill out their galleries. Unfortunately I have never been there to see it so I don’t have any photos of my own which I can add. [...]
A new portrait for Nick Hayter.
Lately I have been bringing the athletes profiles up to date. Yesterday we had a little bit of a play around shooting a new portrait photograph for skier Nick Hayter. We were fortunate to have a few storm clouds building so we used these as a backdrop, set up the flashes and took a few [...]
Chalets
I have been shooting some chalets here in St. Anton for the English chalet companies. The photos are destined for the websites of the respective companies and for use on Ultimate-ski.com. I have only done a few hotels and chalets before so I still find them a challenge to shoot. Not my usual type of [...]
