Salomon Spring Summer 2011 Hiking Clothing. November 11th, 2010
Here are a few pictures from a shoot I did on Snowdon with the Salomon Spring / Summer 2011 hiking range. The brief was for images that portray light fast walking in classic British scenery. But as soon as the gear arrived the spectacular autumn weather turned into weeks of rain and gales blowing all of the autumn colours away. I waited and waited, and arranged dates and cancelled and arranged again, then I saw a brief window of opportunity in the met offices forecast, made a few calls and within 12 hours we where on our way to North Wales, due to the lack of leaves it had to be up high or nothing.
There was blue blue sky the whole way there, but as usual Snowdon was covered in cloud, the forecast at the car park was for a clear mountain by late afternoon, and sure enough, after hiking up and sitting out the fog, it finally lifted and the most beautiful afternoon fell upon the mountain and we got to work. I know they aren’t the highest mountains in the world but when the light gets that good Wales is pretty hard to beat. A few days later I sent over the shots to Salomon, the marketing manager sent me a message saying ”Hey Ross, I’m loving these shots and bang on the brief I emailed over!”… Job done!
Running & Hiking September 14th, 2010
After a few requests coming in for stock pictures and the OIA needing a few images from me, I decided to get out and shoot some running and hiking pictures around Shropshire and North Wales. Although it was still early in September the weather turned out to be fairly autumnal and it rained…lots! By the time we got to Snowdonia there were torrents of water pouring off the hills, but the cloud formations broke regularly and when they did the sunlight was really intense. Not one to keep my gear dry, we shot through some heavy showers and I think we got some good results. Which just goes to show that the moto ‘get out there no matter what’ pays off in the end.
