This is where I work too….
This is where I work too….
Best wishes to all through the holiday season! Have fun with family and friends and do find some time to play!
Truly a pleasure being granted a documentary photography style catalogue assignment in the fine state of Idaho. The idea was to simply live a ‘locals’ life by spending time with Specialized team ripper, Rebecca Rusch. By living the life of cycling with the locals, you indulge into amazing singletrack, rowdy rodeo, and drinking Idaho micro brews at the community races. alltime pure mountain, bike culture.
Those that know, know. The riding here in the Southern Chilcotins defines epic, thus a perfect place for Weir and Shandro to put the new XTR through its paces. Easy to find yourself into hour 8 or 9 on a basic loop. A great opportunity to flirt with the onset of winter and find some setting rays of sunlight through the first snows of the year. Yes, having a light to get out is recommended.
In the circle of a year, it is a special treat for me to roam out somewhere along the British Columbia coastline and try and intercept a few Chinook Salmon. I find Salmon to be such intriguing creatures in both pure beauty and also for the amazing journey that they experience in their lifecycle. Does any creature get to indulge in our vast beautiful British Columbia more so than Salmon? The goal is simply to say hello, to be in the coastal elements with them, to see that they are around and healthy, and to see if I know what it takes to tantalize their senses. It is not about putting fish in the boat, the reward in returning one of these spectacular fish far exceeds the shallow feeling of bonking ‘the big one’. We need these Chinook to make it to river and to spawn out their valuable genetics. When i’m lucky enough to catch a hatchery fish or when a smaller one is naive enough to be fooled by my twirling piece of plastic, i love to enjoy a summertime salmon dinner…
Here is a look into some recent road cycling photography I did on a journey through the Basque region of Spain with the crew from Specialized. No better way to see the remote reaches of Europe, than on a road bike. Beautiful narrow roads are everywhere and cyclists rule the road. Instantly realized why some of the strongest climbers in road cycling history were from Spain. Epic pintxos everywhere!
The Bike Magazine Photo Annual is always littered with great mountain bike shots and it’s always exciting to have a few images published in it. These are four that made the cut this year. On a sad note, two of these images seen here were corrupted at the print house and hit the print version of Bike looking like #$%^! Direct-to-press style printing let us down, and for the first time in Bike Magazine’s twenty year history, a print error like this has happened. What a shame…such hard work by so many hands in the mix.
I was stoked to be hired by the Vancouver Canucks hockey team to help document their 2011 playoff drive to the Stanley Cup. The task was to concentrate on the fans and the emotion that we all express along the journey and to portrait as much of this emotional roller coaster ride as possible. It is not easy being a Canucks fan, never has been, but this team is just getting started on a bright future. One thing for certain, Vancouver Canucks fans passionately love the Canucks and the agony of defeat was thick in the air and this is one tough pil to swallow…agonizing!
THOMAS VANDERHAM
WADE SIMMONS
GEOFF GULEVICH
This spring, Rocky Mountain Bicycles hired me to photograph their heavy-hitting team of Thomas Vanderham, Wade Simmons, and Geoff Gulevich. Good to see Thomas flying the airspace on a Rocky again. The plan was to hit Kamloops and score Rocky a new set of posters of the riders. The X factor being that mother nature wasn’t loosening her grip on an epic winter and we were met with cold dark conditions. So, think fast, use every tool that the brain has, find some continuity in the look and create something that stoked out Rocky so much, they have coined this set of the froriders, ‘the series’.
