Friday: Shots I did with film

This was the first portrait I had printed in a magazine. It's of snowboarder Dar Short. We shot this along with a bunch of other film stuff. I used a canon flash on the Holga for this with Fuji 800 print film. That day we also did some b+w infared 35mm stuff and some color and b+w 645 portraits as well.

Tuesday: Photographer/Artist That Inspires Me

This week I am feauturing long time friend and photographic artist Jenny Wilson. I have known Jenny since high school. We went to the same college in Vermont and then were roommates at photo school. She is currently living in Brooklyn with her husband James and dogs Grace and Keeper.
Jenny's unique approach to seeing things as art really comes through in her work. While seeing the scans here on the interweb is cool you really need to see her prints to fully experience just how well done they are, especially the black and white images.
Jenny please keep up the good work and thanks for inspiring me all these years!

Found by Seeing

Today I was out for a run and saw this one lonesome slide on the ground. Picked it up and slid it in my jacket pocket and went on with the run. The slide is very cool 70's looking family scene, real lifestyle. I find it amazing that even in the midst of learning to run I still see things. I'm still looking around at my environment and noticing things that most take for granted or don't even realize is there. Today I stumbled onto a golden moment in time and I'm very grateful for it!

Friday: Shots I did on Film

Tomorrow is the half pipe finals for the US Open of Snowboarding up at Stratton, VT. It's traditionally the last major contest of the season and one of the only times of the year the super pros snowboard on the east coast. Huge crowds, good parties, and lots of really good snowboarding. I have photographed the event many times and these images are some of my most memorable. I have pleanty of shots in the archives of super big half pipe tricks but these were just so much fun. They are of Vermont native and Editor of Snowboarder Magazine, Pat Briges. Pat had this idea back in 2003 to enter the event and write about what it was like from a "competitors" perspective. In classic Bridges style he shotgunned a Red Bull and lit up a cig in the starting gate. I didn't catch his run but I can be certain there was at least one very well executed hand plant in there. He's the king of the handplant. I think I remeber him doing handplants at Killington one time with a beer in his hand and not spilling a drop. Only Pat Briges man, only Pat!
Pat, if you happen to read this, thanks for the awesome memories. Keep killing it!

Friday: Shots I did with film

I thought of this shot earlier this week. I created this in late 2001 or early 2002 with film in a plastic Holga camera. I used a softbox and a white seamless set up in our kitchen. My friend and roomate at the time had this rad cowboy hat that he go in Texas while on a shoot and doing some mechanical bull riding. We shot this just for the hell of it, just to shoot. Enjoy!

Friday: Shots I did on Film

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This is a shot from my daughter Zoe's first day of kindergarden almost 6 years ago. I documented the morning with one roll of Kodak 3200. This is the shot she picked out to go in her 5th grade scrapbook. The one she chose of her now is part of the Kids Faces series on my website, check it out here. Enjoy!

Friday: Shots I did on Film

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Here's a shot I did with Bryan Iguchi at the World Quarterpipe Championships at Waterville Valley, NH in 2002. That event (more party then contest) was a blast. They had lit a fire on the run in and the riders had to jump the fire while getting pummeled with snowballs and beer cans on there way to throw down on the quarter. In fact I had a shot of someone ollying the fire in Rolling Stone next to some of Tim Zimmerman's photos. This shot here ran in the first issue of The Snowboard Journal printed really well on super nice paper. I was stoked to be part of it. It also ran in Seth Butler and Mike Nevin's The Journal back when it was a b+w snowboard mag, not the full color art mag that it is now. It might have been in Eastern Edge too, I can't remember.
I shot this with a Hassleblad, 80mm lens and cross processed a tungsten film in c-41. It was lit by the sun through fog.
Enjoy!

Friday: Shots I did on Film

Shaun White at Mt. Hood in 2000

Kelly Clark at Mt. Snow in 2002

Kelly Clark at Mt. Snow in 2002
With all of this Olympic Medal stuff flying around I dug up a few images of our current medalists that I did with film. The first is a shot I did with Shaun White while he was filming for a Volcom video at Mt. Hood, OR back in the summer of 2000. This was before the main stream media labeled him The Flying Tomato or some muppet name. But he was ripping back then too. Everyone knew he was going to be bigtime, maybe not as big as he turned out but big none the less.
The other two images are of Kelly Clark in a space above her family's resteraunt at Mt. Snow, VT. We shot these for the now gone SG Magazine. It was a cool double page spread. Kelly was super nice and has continued to kill it.
Congratulations to all of the athlets for rocking Vancouver. I'll have to dig out some other shots I have of Hannah Teter and some of Ross Powers after he won the Gold too.

Friday: Shots I did with film

I shot these 7 or 8 years ago with film. The b+w is shot with good old tri-x in a Hassleblad and an 80mm lens. The two action images are with an 800 asa transperency film shot with a Canon EOS3 and the 100-400L lens.
I actually on my way to shooting with these yahoos again this weekend and we are lined up to get some killer ice climbing images. It'll be digital this time though. I have always been stoked on the square Hassleblad image. It's definitely in my top 10 favorites of all time that I have taken. The 35 shots I have always been disappointed in the quality of the film. They are cool shots I just wish the grain held together better and it was a little more contrasty and saturated. Oh well, they are still cool.

Friday: Shots I did on Film

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Here's a shot of Mikey from my old neighborhood. I met him one day when he was learning to olly and gave him a pointer. Then he nailed it right away and we were instant friends.
This shot was with Kodak's Color Infrared Film. It was an E6(slide film) cross processed in C41(negative/print film) giving the super saturated and extra contrast. I think this was from one of two or three rolls that I ever shot with that film. If I remember right it was super expensive too, like $25 a roll. But man look at those color shifts straight out of the can, no photoshop magic here. Enjoy and check in next Friday for another image captured with emulsion and not pixels!

Ahh, B+W Film

Good old Tri X with a Hasselblad.