Outdoor clothing and equipment retailer Mountain Warehouse have just published their Autumn and Winter range, this year they have decided to do two separate catalogues, one for hiking and rambling, and one of ski wear. It seems like a long time ago since we shot the ski images in Alpe d’Huez, so it’s great to see it in print.
Many thanks to Issy, Ben, Peter, Rosanna, Adrian and Lisa Marie for the modeling expertise, and all the Mountain Warehouse crew, it was great fun shooting with them!
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Family in tow I arrived in Alpe d’Huez to shoot the Mountain Warehouse catalogue, the resort had had a huge season with a very deep snowpack which was still being topped up almost every night. We had some pretty good weather for the whole thing, just one afternoon of blizzards, which made a pleasant change. They wanted a mix of ski and snowboard shots with the emphasis on fun. So that’s what we did, went on the mountain and had a good time, it worked a treat. The Woodhall kids also did a fine job of modeling, and predictably where asking to get paid before they had finished the job. We stayed at the Hotel Chamois again and had great food upstairs, and a great time down stairs in the Underground bar. Many thanks to Gareth, Catharine and Adam for their huge support.
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Straight off the back of Obergurgl I was in Chamonix to shoot some promotional images for Profeet. The brief was pretty elastic, some action, some emphasis on the boots, some lifestyle. So off we went up the hill for a couple of days to see what we could get. On the first day in Les Houches the weather was foggy and warm and we couldn’t shoot much, so on day two we went to Le Brevant, it was like the Bahamas it was so hot, the snow turned to crud by mid morning and they closed half the mountain by 2pm. So for the last day we went up Le Grand Montet where we managed to find some powder higher up and work the hell out of it, many thanks to Chris and Ben for all of the hiking!
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Well it was back to Obergurgl again for the Snow + Rock 10/11 catalogue shoot, and the Austrian weather, incredibly, was even worse than the last 2 years. We had the whole spectrum of conditions over the 9 days from armpit deep slush to bullet proof ice, to knee deep powder. But I suppose it makes for a varied range of pictures. The Nikons just blew me away, it was the first time I’d used them in anger on fast moving subjects and they just nailed it every time, the colours and picture quality are simply amazing. I’ll only put a flavour of the images we shot on this post, the rest can be revealed in October after the launch.
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I went out to shoot some winter walking pictures for Getty a few days ago and really found the weather conditions to be fairly appalling, really just plain old nasty!
I had asked my model Ben to grow a nice big beard for the shots, but we just got so cold and wet we soon packed up and headed for the warmth and a cup of tea. So I decided to eliminate the weather factor and shoot some stock pictures in the studio instead, It worked out fine in the end, gradually losing the beard as we went. We got a little carried away on the original theme but what the hell.
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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.
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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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April found me in Obergurgl in Austria shooting the Snow + Rock 09/10 winter catalogue. It had been scheduled for late April, which I must admit was a bit of a worry regarding snow conditions. I needn’t have bothered, it did as it did last year, snowed for Austria. In over 15 years in the mountains I have never seen anything like it at that time of year. It snowed for days right to the valley floor, quite incredible really, and it was very cold too, which was great as it kept the snow in good condition. We did have one day of complete blue sky towards the end of the shoot and few days of mixed weather where it cleared for a few hours at a time to grab those blue sky shots, we also used quite a lot of flash which was great for creativity.
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I also tried a new shooting technique, which in hind sight I wouldn’t recommend. The picture brief was “mates taking shots of each other jumping on boards” and I sort of wanted to get a boarders eye view…ish of proceeding, so I came up with this idea below, well, probably not my best idea, but, you can also see the shot I got, it sort of worked, I just needed an Ibuprofen sandwich afterwards.
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March found me back in Alpe d’Huez but this time it was a shoot for Mountain Warehouse. They had commissioned me to shoot some images for their point of sale, window and store graphics. I arrived a few days early to try and shoot some stock before hand but the weather said otherwise with big blizzards hitting the mountains. Luckily the storms cleared just as the main shoot started and Alpe d’Huez did us proud with it’s legendary cloud inversions and blue sky. When it’s like that it’s hard to get it wrong.
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The French alps had had a huge amount of snow over Christmas so I decided to get myself out there and shoot a good batch of stock for Cultura Images. I picked up Ben Benson, a good friend who is also an incredible skier and headed south to the mountains. Our first stop was Hotel Le Chamois in Alpe d’Huez. This is a groovy little hotel run by some friends of mine, it has a great atmosphere, great food and a cool bar, an excellent spot to work from. So we shot pictures in the old town and then up in the mountains, shooting ski lifestyle and action, giving the Elinchroms a good workout in the freezing cold. We had great weather and great apres ski, which sometimes merged into an evening out. It’s a hard place to leave, but I had to try and keep to my plan, which I have to admit was fairly flimsey.
We said our goodbyes and headed off to Serre Chevalier. I hadn’t been there for nearly ten years and I’d forgotten how huge it was. I did a ski season there in 1993, so I met up with old friends and worked a few days on the hill shooting action, the light was superb and so was the snow, we got some great images. I must get back there again, maybe this summer, if not, definitely next winter. Back in car again and off to Morzine where we met up with Catherine Peck and professional model who was doing a ski season there. We spent a couple of days shooting lifestyle, but unfortunately the weather took a turn for the worst and our plans for action pictures where finished. We’d had a great trip but, as always when your travelling, money gets eaten everyday, so I decided we had done enough and headed back to the UK and home, all in all a very successful trip.
Many, many thanks to Gareth, Catherine and Adam at the Hotel Le Chamois for their help and hospitality. To Mike Truelove for nearly killing us and to Lara, Howie and Sally for the breakfast, guiding and Tartiflet. Also a big thank you to Ben Benson for all of the hiking and amazing back flips and Catherine Peck for all of the help in Morzine.
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After posting a few pictures on Flickr I received a call from the Mountain Gazette in Colorado, USA, saying they would like to purchase an image for their front cover. I’d not heard of them before, so I checked out their website, it turns out they are a bit of a legendary publication, as stated in their own words;
“The Mountain Gazette is a flat-out magazine legend. For eight years, from 1972-79, Mountain Gazette was considered by many people to be the best and most influential outdoor publication in the Known Universe. It gained a well-deserved national reputation for eclecticism, irreverence, intelligence, wit and insight that has yet to be matched by any of the outdoor publications now in existence.”
So I was pretty pleased a month later when I joined the front cover club.
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