Session at a kicker, Remarkables 7th August 2008

Was a booootiful day for shooting this one, no lighting equipment used.

Boarders - Mike & Eddy
Camera - 5D
Lens - Sigma 12-24
Location - The Remarkables, New Zealand

Post was limited to some slight s-bend curves for added pop plus logo removal & noise reduction for stock.  Trying to talk Mike into doing a back flip on this next session.

Cardrona 18th July 2008

Well it had only been 2 days since I’d hurt myself boarding at Coronet so when we went up to Cardrona I didn’t even take the board off the car.  Just spent the day hiking around taking photos.  I did manage to get a free day pass out of them by flashing a few shots though so that made it easier to get up to the kickers and rails to shoot the boys.  There was also a big air comp on that day which I managed to get a few shot of some riders warming up on.  Unfortunately I managed to loose my spare battery that day so by the time the actual competition started I’d run out of juice.

Boarding Coronet - 16th July 2008

Well the 16th saw me on a snowboard for the first time in over 8 years.  It took so long to get up the mountain as I’ve been trying to negotiate a season pass out of NZski in exchange for some advertising photos.  We ended up compromising on a complimentary week pass on a trial basis, if they like what they see from there then it’ll be extended into a full multi-resort season pass, so fingers are crossed.  Only ended up getting the one day up at Coronet and none at The Remarkables due to a combination of bad weather, injury and a day spent at another resort.

RE the injury, it was my own silly fault for not paying enough attention to where I was going.  To cut a long story short on my first run of the first day on the snow I crashed into a ditch and did a good job of pulling a muscle in my side/back.  I’m starting to feel better now though so hopefully I’ll be back on a board within a week or so.

The models in the following shots are good mate of mine and room mate for 3 months (9 years ago) Mike, and another fellow Aussie, Eddie - cheers guys!  Without further ado, here is Coronet:

 Mike on a rail:

 

The Coronet base building:

 

The view:

 

 

And a few of Mike & Eddie  being part snowboarders, part fashion models!: