Bit of an odds and ends posting this one.  I’ve been shooting a few things up on Blackcomb glacier in the last week or so.  The progression of skiing over the last year is pretty impressive.  It seems everyone has a new variation on a double cork or double flip these days.  Paul Bergeron (photo on the left) is looking particularly impressive.  I also shot a quick video of Peter Olenicks new double which seems to be a kind of misty 5 to switch backflip. Crazy stuff.

Pete Olenicks new dub from Dan Carr on Vimeo.

A few nights ago I went up to Camp of Champions for a sunset shoot with the 4frnt crew.  CR Johnson, Matt Sterbenz and Finn Anderson were on hand along with local skiers Mack Jones and Carl Fortin.  As with this shoot last year , we were blessed with perfect conditions and a beautiful sunset.  The photo on the left shows the collection of Elinchom Rangers set up by myself and a couple of other photogs.  In the last couple of shoots I have been experimenting with some different pocketwizard setups to try and increase the usable range.  What I have learnt is that moving the PW away from the light stand and flash head can make a noticeable difference.  A Manfrotto magic arm with camera plate and a cold shoe provide a useful setup because you can easily move it around depending on what angle you are shooting.  DO NOT be tempted to angle the aerial towards you though.  You must keep the aerial pointing vertically.  Any deviation from the vertical seems to cut down the range again.  This was the first shoot in a long time that I have not experienced major pocketwizard frustrations and in fact I managed to get the new TT1 transmitter to sync incredibly fast with my ranger.

Carl Fortin, Camp Of Champions, Whistler, BC

Canon 1dMKIIN, 1/320, f5.6, 24-105mm at 50mm, iso 400

Coming up this month there will also be a sunset shoot going down at Momentum ski camp and i’m working on the marketing material for a new spa here in Whistler when i’m not shooting skiing.  At the end of the month i’ll be packing up and heading to New Zealand for a team shoot with another ski company.  It’s nice to get back to shooting, the last few weeks I have spent many hours in front of my computer screen sorting through the winter shots and getting them sent off to all the ski magazines around the world.  A necessary part of the job and certainly not my favorite part.

Yesterday was Gaper day here in Whistler.  Blackcomb is now closed and Whistler is open for some limited spring skiing. I have one more snowboard shoot left to do here with the Sandbox crew and it looks like we will get that done towards the end of this week when the current low pressure has cleared out.  Winter is nearly done.

When winter finishes in Whistler though you only get a couple of weeks off before summer camps start up on the glacier.  I’m stoked already, the Blackcomb glacier hosts 2 of the best summer parks in the world.  Momentum Ski camp and Camp of Champions.  Here is a few of the shots from last summer that have been published  recently.

Twitterific, twitastic, tweeps, tweeple, twitterverse.  Confused?  Then skip this post.

If you do know what i’m talking about then read on…  There is a thing called follow Friday on twitter, its an unofficial thing, but people post up twitter names of people they think you should follow.  This is my version of follow Friday, only much bigger.  In the last week or so twitter seems to have hit the ski industry much harder so i thought I would put down a list of some interesting people to follow both from the ski industry and the photographic community.  I’m going to keep it pretty simple just a list…..tweet.  And let me know if i missed people and I can update the list as it grows.

SKI industry twitterers.

@dancarrphoto , @k2ski, @lineskis, @SpyderVenom,@ozskier (digi dave),@jeffschmuck, @IF3,@voleurz, @whistlerparks, @Newschoolers, @Freeskier

SKIERS

@HankLambo (Henrik Lampert), @stoneusbillups (Matt Walker), @danetudor, @codytownsend, @steepskiing (Chris Davenport), @eroner, @MikeDski (Mike Douglas), @sarah_j_burke, @TimDurtschi, @ingridbackstrom, @hathbanger, @MyshellParker, @Schubomb, @NicholasMartini, @greteeliassen, @ABoronowski

SKI/Snowboard photographers

@dancarrphoto, @Kapitolphoto, @annaleah, @nabbott, @dspphoto, @TimZimmerman, @MikeBerard

Its that time again. WSSF. The world ski and snowboard festival.  Live music and the worlds best skiers and snowboarders decend every year on Whistler for the best end of season party in the world.  It’s always a busy couple of weeks shooting the various events and trying to squeeze in shoots with the skiers between events.  I spent the last couple of days shooting with Jossi Wells who is here to compete in the Big Air event tomorrow night.  Practice for that started this evening (see above photo, 5dMKII , 1/320 f7.1, 15mm).

Tomorrow i’m stoked to be shooting with last years Superpipe winner Tucker Perkins, we always get good shots when we work together.  I should have just enough time to get back home, charge batteries and get back to the village for the big air finals tomorrow night.  Sunday is the Orage Masters team competition and then on Monday I will shoot a bit of the pipe competition before packing up all my gear and heading to Vancouver for a couple of days to work on a catalog shoot for the clothing company Orage. Then straight back up to Whis again for one more day with Tucker before he heads back to the US.  Might take aday off after all that…… but maybe i’ll just shoot the snowboard cometitions too as I can always sell a few of those shots to a couple of snowboard mags I do some work for.  When thats all over and done with I have another cool project on the horizon.  Hope to post more details soon and cover the whole thing with some behind the scenes photos……stay tuned.  Busy busy.

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