Mountain Landscape Photography.  

 

Here’s a few shots of some impressive cloud formations and stormy skies taken over the last few weeks in the alps. I think I might start to do a bit more landscape photography this year!

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Dare2b SS13 Photo Shoot in Tenerife  

 

 

Tenerife blew me away, what an awesome place, I was there shooting for Dare2b and it was a blast, we spent 4 days in a dormant volcano which was a really harsh environment for both photographer and camera. The images we shot won’t be out until next year so I’ll post some landscapes I shot very quickly on the run.

 

 

 

 

 

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Coastal Sun Bursts  

 

While shooting on the beach in Wales this month for Mountain Warehouse we experienced some really nice bursts of sun breaking through the overcast skies, so I thought I’d share a couple with you.

 

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Wind Turbine Picture  

 

On route to Verbier I spotted this shot so I pulled over and poked the D3X with a 70-200mm attached out of the car window. Nice and simple and will work really well as a stock picture.

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JC Decaux  

 

Here’s a couple of shots I took in Birmingham for JC Decaux. It’s not often I do urban shots, I’m normally up a mountain or standing in a rain soaked field, but once I got my head around the parking situation I found it quite interesting to shoot. I used a 3 stop full ND filter to slow things down a little and get those car lights working for me.

 

 

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Hundred House Gardens  

I’ve been taking a few pictures of the hundred house gardens during my visits there, here’s a couple of my favourite detail images I shot early one morning.

 

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Lausanne Switzerland  

On the way to my next job in Tignes I drove through Lausanne in Switzerland, the weather was superb, you would have thought it was the middle of summer, as I drove down by the lake the boats and the bikinis where out, so I simply had to pull over and take a few shots.

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20 minutes on the beach  

I went down to Cornwall to shoot some interior pictures for Port Issac Cottages. After a day of shooting the house, I went down to Polzeath beach in the pouring rain to get a breath of fresh air and to see what was going to happen with the sunset, almost straight away the clouds broke and I managed to shoot a couple of really nice images in the last twenty minutes. Although silhouettes are pretty easy to shoot and a bit of a cliché they are also quite effective and I can’t resist.

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Frozen Motion  

I had been working with Ben Benson on the last few days of the Consensio job so it only made sense to stay on for a few days longer and shoot some stock for Getty, so we headed for Vallandry hoping for better weather. The next morning was grey, cold and misty, so I headed down to the river to shoot some running water with a 3 stop ND filter, this holds light back and allows for a longer exposures, which gives you that dreamy effect. When I got down to the water there were some outstanding ice formations on the roots and branches so I spent a few hours scrambling up and down the river bank. I managed to get quite a few nice shots, I really like the stillness of ice against the movement of the water. In the afternoon the weather broke a little so we went up to Vallandry and shot some portraits of Ben with some new Salomon and Bolle gear, and a few landscape pictures as there was a superb sunset cranking. Then we packed our bags again and headed south.

That evening we arrived in Alpe d Huez on only the second day of their season to find the mountain with a reasonable covering of snow. The next morning was beautiful so we headed up to try and get some ski photography done. Although it’s early and the snow can be dodgy I do love the light at this time of year, I call it “blade lighting” it gets really intense after 2pm and the other bonus is you don’t have to wait long for the sunset. When the snow isn’t the best I’ve got a few tricks up my sleeve to make things look a little better, so the use of wide angles, flash, slow shutters speeds and tight detail was the order of the day. Considering what we had to work with we didn’t do too badly. The next morning we where on our way home…job done.

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Premier Neige.  

At 3am on the 6th of December I turned the car keys in the ignition and drove off my drive, at 9pm I pulled up on the drive way of Chalet Aurore in Meribel. Over the years I’ve sampled my fair share of accommodation from YHA’s to exclusive Alpine Lodges but nothing can prepare you for the Consensio chalets experience. I won’t go into it in too much detail, but when I tell you the chalet next door has it’s own gondola to take it’s owners to the piste…. you get the idea! I had been commissioned to shoot the interiors of their chalets in Meribel and Val d’Isere, shoot some lifestyle in and around the chalets and, possibly, some action pictures of the staff wearing Faiise clothing. I managed to shoot a fair amount but unfortunately the action was missed as bad weather arrived and we had to be out as the first lucky guests arrived.

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