A couple weeks ago Tanner and I got to talking about one of us making the trip to each other’s towns to do some shooting. It ended up with me heading to Nanaimo to stay with his family up there. We Spent from sunrise to much past sundown shooting 3 locations with over 3 visits to one location alone.
Its really fun shooting such a young sport which is changing so quickly and so many people haven’t seen it happen yet. People stopped by almost everywhere we shot to see what was happening and ask questions about what kind of sport it was.
Tanner is a rider out of Nanaimo BC riding for Reef and Liquid Force. For the shooting we were using a home built winch driven by his brother. Many thanks to Stephen for driving all day, and to the Champion family for their hospitality.
Several images are out for now, may be up later.
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I don’t really have much to say here, I’ve gotta run off to the studio to take some pics for a school project but I wanted to get these shots up.
After shooting at the piano for a while we took a break to Kyla could warm up a bit, and I took a quick walk through the forrest to see what else of interest there was. I came across what appeared to be the old road which was long since out of commission with short shrubs growing out of it. It reminded me of the scene in Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring (first movie), when the ring wraith was standing on the crest of an old road where he is an ominous silhouette with fog behind.
Unfortunately I never did find anything to work on a shot remotely reminiscent of that shot. However I did find…
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It has been a while since I put something new up. Had a really busy week coming back from Christmas vacation with school, and now I’m finally back to the computer screen.
This is the final product after taking the first picture like this over a year ago. I wanted to reshoot the old picture with a real macro lens and didn’t get my hands on one until now. Oh, and this is my eye (which makes it extra difficult to get composed/focused when if you miss the composition by half an inch its garbage)
No, this isn’t layers in photoshop if you were thinking it. I prefer doing photography over digital art.
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Victoria is nice… but there is no snow! Egad!
I only had a week and a half this year when I really could shoot anything urban, so I took full advantage with three days in a row of me hopping up and down to keep warm on cold nights in Calgary. The first night was with Ben Gerwing hopping around the parking lots at the Stampeder’s stadium. Lots of the usable stuff around there has been capped, but we carved a jump into a snowbank to have some fun with a light poll in the lot.
The second day was spent with Blayne doing some urban big mountain, but that has already been covered in the previous blog.
The last day of urban skiing for me was on New Year’s Eve with Sash Lazic and Mark Drebit enjoying a rail in Calgary’s NE. Snow had drifted up onto the rail and stairs to almost a meter deep in places so digging the rail out wasn’t terribly fun.
After the digging and jump building was done the fun got underway. Sash is in white, Mark is in green
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