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  • A snowboarders paradise. This face in Alaska has been dubbed "So Far Gone" due to its extreme pillows of snow and fresh powder.
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  • John Jackson is chased by a helicopter while snowboarding down a spine in the Alaska backcountry during the making of the film The Art of Flight.
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  • Just another day in the office for professional snowboarder Travis Rice as he negotiates his way down a steep ridge while filming in Alaska.
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  • Professional snowboarder Travis Rice slashes a ridge on his snowboard while filming in his home town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
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  • Ever since I first bought my water housing to photograph surfing, I had been looking for ways to use it for snowboarding. To create the shot I wanted I needed two key components, legit snowboard action and clear water.<br />
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I started to get jobs working with Red Bull, and they would come up with these crazy ideas and then build what they wanted. This is when I realized that I could just build the components that I needed and shoot it in a semi controlled environment. <br />
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I had my housing equipped with a 20 foot custom sync cord so that I could fire the strobes from under the water using a Pocket Wizard remote. When it came to lighting the scene, I knew that I would need at least one strobe to light the fish and rocks. For this, I set up a Profoto Acute 600 at full power and directed it down, right in front of me. The idea of having waterproof lights in the water was consided but I didn’t think it would make much of a difference when considering the extra cost involved. This shot was going to be backlit so I was going to need all the fill light I could get. For this, I set up a Profoto 7b, able to fire 2 strobes. I used one with a narrow beam reflector on the left side as fill light and the other head on the right side just to help eliminate motion blur.<br />
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Finally it was time to have the fish swim into the frame. I thought this was going to be easier than it was. Eventually Clayton Shoemaker jumped into the water with me to help wrangle them into position. Fish food didn’t work. I would yell up to Lauri every time a fish was in the frame and he would drop in. After about 25 attempts we had the shot.
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  • Jon Devore jumps off a large cliff into a spiraling barrel roll while filming for the Unrideables in the Tordrillo Mountains near Anchorage, Alaska on April 27th, 2014.
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  • Professional snowboarder Bryan Fox slashes a ridge on his snowboard while heli-boarding in Alaska close to sunset.
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  • Illumination<br />
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Travis Rice slashes a snow wave near the end of the day in the Tordrillo Mountains of Alaska while filming for the Art of Flight movie. This was the last image I took after more then 4 weeks of shooting and sleeping in the mountains. This photo won the illumination category in the Red Bull Illume photo contest. <br />
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I had been in the Tordrillo Mountains for 4 weeks with the Brain Farm Cinema crew documenting the making of the Art of Flight movie. From day one I had it in my mind that I wouldn’t leave without shooting a photo from a hovering helicopter looking straight down on a rider. Unfortunately setting up this kind of shot was much more complicated then I originally thought. We had 2 helicopters on this trip. The first was the film ship, fitted with a Cineflex aerial camera to the nose. It’s important for this ship to be as light as possible so that it could manoeuvre quickly so I wasn't allowed to shoot from that one. The second helicopter was the riders ship. It would shuttle the riders around getting them on top of the lines they wanted to ride and would pick them up at the bottom. As a photographer I would use this ship to move myself around when it wasn't possible to snowboard there. So when I found the right terrain to shoot my aerial photo, I had to coordinate the move I wanted to make with the film ship as it would generally fly all over the place to get the best shot of the entire line. In the end we decided I would just hover above the line, hang out the side and shoot while the film ship would do its thing around us. This was the best way to keep both helicopters from crashing into each other.<br />
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Once I was harnessed in and hanging out of the helicopter, we lifted up and hovered a few 100 feet above the line. Travis was called in to drop and made this single turn before disappearing over the edge. It would have been nice to follow him down the whole line but that just wasn't going to be safe.<br />
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It was around
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  • The Tordrillo Mountains are a small range in the south central region of Alaska. They lie approximately 120 km northwest of Anchorage and are primarily volcanic, which may be what makes them so perfect for snowboarding. On a recent trip there, accompanied by two of the best riders in the world, I was able to photograph the best, most progressive backcountry snowboarding to date.<br />
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Travis Rice catches huge air doing a backside 720 nose grab in Alaska shooting for the Art of Flight movie.
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  • The Tordrillo Mountains are a small range in the south central region of Alaska. They lie approximately 120 km northwest of Anchorage and are primarily volcanic, which may be what makes them so perfect for snowboarding. On a recent trip there, accompanied by two of the best riders in the world, I was able to photograph the best, most progressive backcountry snowboarding to date.<br />
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Travis Rice slashes a snow wave near the end of the day in Alaska while filming for the Art of Flight movie.
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  • “The Crack” looks like an insanely intimidating and alluring feature when you think about riding it. Pro skier Cody Townsend rode The Crack and ended up winning Powder Magazine’s ‘Line Of The Year’ award and ‘Best Male Performance‘, it was said that his ski line was the ‘most insane ever.’<br />
However, it was actually Travis Rice who made the first descent on a couloir feature he and Eric Jackson dubbed “The Crack” in the spring of 2014.
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  • Jon Devore jumps off a large glacier while filming for the Unrideables in the Tordrillo Mountains near Anchorage, Alaska on April 24th, 2014.
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  • A day spent shooting in and around Vancouver showing the versitality of Alpine Ride's new electric mountain scooter. While this does perform well in the dirt trails of Vancouver's North Shore, it also serves well as a daily city commuter.
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  • Sun Jump<br />
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Skateboarder Ryan Descenzo had the idea of building a gap between two shipping containers, so in order to make it a bit more dramatic we decided to place the containers on a barge and drag it with a tug boat out into the ocean. It wasn't until the sun was about to set that he landed this nollie heelflip over the gap (and sun) in English Bay, Vancouver, Canada.
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  • Cody Lockwood launches a stalefish air in the bowl as the sun sets over the Atlantic Ocean at Red Bull's Last Resort just outside of Halifax, Canada on September 16th, 2014.
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  • West Coast Living.
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  • Glory Day<br />
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2014 was an especially poor season in Alaska. It hadn’t snowed much at all that year and most of the terrain we are used to riding was bare. After about ten days of waiting patiently in a backcountry cabin, our spirits at an all time low, a freak storm showed up on the radar and dropped enough snow to save our trip. This image of Travis Rice celebrating the new snow was shot at the top of our first run, when the sun broke out from the clouds creating the most beautiful light.
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  • Darren Berrecloth hikes his bike to ride a line in the Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada on August 29, 2016.
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  • The entire production team along with the athletes are photographed before floating down the Tatshenshini River in the Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada on August 31, 2016.
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  • Dave Prothero, one of our 5 river guides bring the rafts to shore at the end of the day in the Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada on September 2, 2016.
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  • Tyler McCaul, Carson Storch and Wade Simmons ride down a previously untouched slope in the Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada on September 3, 2016.
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  • Tyler McCaul, Carson Storch, Wade Simmons and Darren Berrecloth ride down a previously untouched slope in the Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada on September 3, 2016.
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  • Darren Berrecloth, along with Wade Simmons, Tyler McCaul, Carson Storch and their guide Mike Neville paddle down the Tatshenshini River in the Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada on September 6, 2016.
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  • Darren Berrecloth fly fishes during the making of Riding The Tatshenshini in Dry Bay, Alaska on September 10, 2016.
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  • The film crew flys back to the lodge and leaves us to play a bit longer.
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  • The end of the day in the Alaska mountain range is the best time to be there. A quick stop to evaluate the snow conditions before heading back to the lodge.
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  • Filippo Fabbi jumps off a large glacier while filming for the Unrideables in the Tordrillo Mountains near Anchorage, Alaska on April 24th, 2014.
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  • Andy Farington jumps off a large glaricer cliff while filming for the Unrideables in the Tordrillo Mountains near Anchorage, Alaska on April 29th, 2014.
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  • The Tordrillo Mountains are a small range in the south central region of Alaska. They lie approximately 120 km northwest of Anchorage and are primarily volcanic, which may be what makes them so perfect for snowboarding. On a recent trip there, accompanied by two of the best riders in the world, I was able to photograph the best, most progressive backcountry snowboarding to date. John Jackson blew my mind with his ability to ride such large descents and land obnoxious, oversized airs.<br />
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This photo was taken on a large facing wall, known as Avocado. Half of it gets morning light, while the other half gets evening light. It was late in the day when John spotted a line just about to be blessed with light. The helicopter set me down on an adjacent peak and then dropped him in place to initiate this opportunity. John dropped in, having only seen this line from the air for a few second, and made a few turns before heading right to this cruise-ship sized pillow.<br />
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I remember thinking to myself, "Oh God, does he know what he is headed for?" It's very easy to lose track of where you are, when amazingly huge mountains are all that surround you. One wrong turn can be deadly. Turns out he knew exactly what he was doing and where he was going.
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  • Headless Flight <br />
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This photo was taken in Whistler, Canada in a mountain range accessible only by snow machine. As professional snowboarder Mikkel Bang was preparing for the jump I drove around on my SkiDoo looking for the perfect angle. Mikkel hit the jump a few times trying different tricks but it wasn't until he took too much speed into the jump that he was forced to stop his rotation by opening up his arms, helping to create this unusual but very stylish photo.
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  • The opjective of this photshoot for Headline Mountain Holidays was to convey the sheer size and beauty of some of the locations they are able to take clients on a regular basis.
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  • In the studio to shoot these two ceramic pipes for RYOT cannabis accessories.
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  • Weekend at the beach in Pacific City, OR with Haystack Rock in the background.
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  • The inlet side of Tofino, BC Canada at low tide.
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  • Bar OSO is a Spanish Tapas restaurant in the resort town of Whistler, Canada. Here chef Jorge Munoz shows off his signature octopus ‘Jorge’ style served with confit potatoes, garlic and paprika.
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  • Toronto Maple Leafs #16 and alternate captain Mitch Marner is photographed in a dressing room in Toronto, Canada for marketing assests to help promote his limited editon Red Bull can.
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  • 2018 Toyota Tundra photographed on a forrest service road in northern British Columbia.
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  • RYOT cannabis accessories is the largest of its kind, selling product throughout the world. They are skateboarders taking a skateboarding approach when it comes to marketing the brand. Professional skateboarder Yonnie Cruz is photographed here in the desert outside of Las Vegas with their new Verb 510 vaporizer.
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  • The team at Sky Helicopters look at marketing their sightseeing tours quite differently then most other aviation brands I have worked for. Here, they want to show that if its possible (and legal) they are willing to explore the idea.
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  • Pete McLeod performs aerobatic maneuvers in Vancouver, Canada on August 2, 2019
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  • Western Tow Boat run supplies year round from Seattle to South Eastern Alaskian ports. Supplies can indluded everything from food to school busses.
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  • Two hunters make their way through the forrest of Alaska, photographed from a moving helicopter.
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  • It was a quiet summer moring in the Tordrillo Mountains of Alaska when I shot this photo of Jillian Lukiwski paddleing her canoe along this glacial lake.
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  • TJ Rogers lands a backside smith grind on metal ducting at Red Bull's Last Resort just outside of Halifax, Canada on September 20th, 2014.
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  • TJ Rogers performs a 360 flip over a corner gap at Red Bull's Last Resort just outside of Halifax, Canada on September 20th, 2014.
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  • Brandon Semenuk performs on his mountain bike at Retallack Lodge, near Nelson, BC Canada on July 31st, 2013.
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  • Layback Snow Hack<br />
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To some snowboarers the feeling of riding powder snow is very similar to riding waves on a surfboard. Jake Blauvelt is one of those rides and chooses to ride only natural terrain, preferably untracked. During a helicopter trip to northern British Columbia, Canada Jake spotted this frontside wall and laid down his best interpretation of a surf style slash.
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  • Ryan Decenzo skateboards inside the Red Bull Skate House on October 29th, 2012 in Toronto, Canada.
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