Blayne and I have been wanting to get this done for a long time. I’m sure every rider in any sport has a case of line vision, where every place you go you see in how you would ski/bike/skate lines all over the places we live in.

For over a year Blayne and I have been staring at the north sides of the river banks in Calgary seeing lines. Unfortunately the stars hadn’t lined up for us, no snow, snow but too cold, snow but someone was busy. Today, however, there was snow, it wasn’t too cold, both of us weren’t busy and we even got sunshine!

After tracking out our first location we kept scouting around but had trouble finding steep enough, enough snow, or something that would be interesting to ride/shoot.

I remembered years back seeing a video of some mountain bikers dropping off a retaning wall near the Max Bell Arena. We drove over and weren’t really expecting to to be hit-able as he couldn’t pedal into the drop, but there was just enough of a hill to make it happen.

Happy New Years to everyone out there, and best of luck keeping those resolutions. Thanks to Blayne for jumping off stuff for the camera.

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It was my first time at Baker, and I must say I’ve fallen for that resort. Gnarly terrain, rad people, DEEP snow and not huge crowds.

If your into pow pow and haven’t been to baker its worth a trip, I’ve been stuck on the Rockies for all my years previous and it doesn’t even compare. I had three days of skiing at baker with snow as good as the best day at sunshine last year. It is really quite remarkable. Most of the time it was a bit overcast which doesn’t make for great photos, but the skiing was great.

Props to my brother Silas for showing me around the hill, and riding in all the shots

At the end of the last day some clouds parted off and the sun’s golden rays illumined the face of Mt. Shuksan

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The most recent assignment at WAP was to emulate the photography of a ‘master’. The master I got was Helmut Newton (Just incase you go look it up be warned tons of his stuff is nude or very suggestive). I wasn’t terribly stoked on his work, however some of the techniques that he used were interesting and usable. I kept the theme of woman’s fashion to shoot for the project.

I got in contact with Chelsea who was a pleasure to work with, and a good sport in the less than comfortable weather. Also a big thanks goes out to Andrew Todd and Carolyn Butula for letting me use the patio above their house/gallery. Click Here to check out Dab Gallery’s website, if your in Victoria drop by their place in Dragon Alley and I’m sure you won’t be disappointed.

On a little side note I’m not sure how long it will be until I get another blog together. I have two little ski trips, probably hitting at least 3 resorts plus everything else in between for Christmas. On that note a little early ‘Merry Christmas’ to everyone out there on the interwebs

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Misfits

I often end up with one or two pictures from a shoot, or when I get one lone shot of something interesting that don’t get their own blog entry. So heres to the misfits, the ones that didn’t fit anywhere else. The ones left behind.

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