Straight after our visit to Vallandry, Kev and I drove over to Alpe d’ Huez to do some ski photography for the Ski Club’s Fresh Tracks brochure, after meeting up with everyone and getting passes organised we managed to get up the hill for an afternoon of blue skies, even though the snow wasn’t at it’s best we still managed to get a few nice shots done, and it’s a good job we did too, as the next day the weather turned against us and stayed that way for the whole time. When the chips are down drag out the flashes, that’s what I say, so, much to everyones disgust, we spent the next few days lugging very heavy gear around a very foggy and stormy mountain trying our best to get a few shots done, which we managed in the end but it was pretty tough. Many thanks to Kneissl for the use of the Black Star ski’s the crew loved them, and to Hotel le Chamois and the Underground bar for their help and Dare2b’s Southwell brothers for coming over to shoot.
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Hot on the heels of Saas Fee I headed to Vallandry with Kev Harris to produce a few pictures of the new ION Air Pro Sports Camera. This is the new kid on the block to rival Go Pro. It really is a nice piece of kit and comes with all sorts of accessories and attachments to get right in on the action.
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This year we had a change of venue for the Snow and Rock winter catalogue shoot, it was in Saas Fee, Switzerland. This was a place I’d worked in before but always in the summer, so it was great to see what it had to offer during the winter, although I did have reservations about the fact that it was pretty much glacier top to bottom, which makes hiking a fairly sketchy experience. We did have a great guide with us for the whole shoot so that made things a whole lot safer. The snow was in great condition and we had a blast and got some great shots, more of which I will post in October after the catalogue launch.
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After another one of my mammoth drives I pulled up in Verbier, Switzerland to shoot with Dare 2b’s riders Chris and Nick Southwell, we had some jackets to shoot for Dare 2b and I also wanted to get some editorial images shot and maybe a little stock too should we get the chance. I had also taken my new Nikkor 18-200 GII ED zoom lens to test out, I had purchased it as a one lens travel solution to go with my D300s and I have to say it worked an absolute treat.
Out on this trip with me was Andrew “Noddy” Gowerns who had come out to do a bit of filming jump a few cliffs, and as it turned out to partake in a little Apres-ski libation, along with myself of cause. The week started well with clear skies, but unfortunately it also brought with it 25 degree temperature’s which quite simply destroyed the snow pack. This was then followed by grey skies the next day, blue the day after, grey the day after that and so on. But while the sun was out we managed to get a few nice shots done. We used the Ranger flashes on a few of the shots just to add a little drama, much to Chris’s disgust as he had foolishly offered to carry them. All in all it was a pretty good week, and we had great fun and lots of banter with the boys. But all good things must come to and end it was time to head back to the UK for my next job, a shoot on the glorious west coast in Wales!
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Well here it is again, another year has come and gone and like the first fall of snow flakes in the alps the Snow and Rock catalogue launch heralds the start of the winter. As I said in my post in March, this year was especially challenging with the poor snow fall over the season. We shot it all in Obergurgl where fresh snow was rather thin on the ground, thankfully some of the brief was urban so as you can see from the shot above we had a ball in an underground car park. The Elinchrom’s where on fire for the ten day shoot, this year we used the Quadra flashes as well as the Rangers, and I have to say they where brilliant.
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Here’s the cover of the Ski Club of Great Britain‘s brochure which we shot back in April in Tignes. Happy days 
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This was my first time working for the Ski Club of Great Britain, they had commissioned me to shoot a collection of action and lifestyle pictures for their Fresh Tracks holiday business. They needed shots of their ski leaders guiding on the mountain and the all important apres ski. The snow was definitely challenging to shoot on, but we managed to find some fresh snow high up on the Tignes Glacier. It was hard work but after 3 days we had managed to shoot a good mix of both and everyone was happy with the results. Job done!
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After such an incredibly awful snow season in the French alps this year it was with much trepidation that I ventured into Austria to shoot the Winter 10/11 Snow & Rock catalogue. But to my amazement the snow didn’t seem anywhere near as bad as I had expected. Obergurgl is quite a high resort, admittedly it was a little slushy at the bottom of the mountain, but hike for ten minutes at the top and you could find some descent snow. I took some Elinchrom Quadra flashes with me this year, they worked out a treat and are about half the weight of the RX Rangers, which made the hikes a little easier, but after nine long days of lugging them around they seemed to get a lot heavier. I’ll post some more from this shoot in October after the launch date. As soon as we had finished, I was packed and en route to Tignes via Switzerland.
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Having been brought up on a steady diet of National Geographic Magazines from the early Seventies. I have to say I was pretty pleased to see one of my images, framed by that famous yellow border, gracing the front cover of their Traveller magazine.
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So here we have the new catalogue from Snow + Rock and I am very pleased to say I have the front and back cover. I said in my blog entry in April that I was holding back all of the best images from the shoot until the catalogue was launched. So here are a few of the best images from the shoot. Many thanks to all of the crew from out in Obergurgl and congratulations to Julio and Becky on the cover shot, one of 37 images from that face which they rode perfectly top to bottom, that after an initial 1/2 an hour hike up. I’ve put my favourite from those shots in the slideshow below, Enjoy!
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