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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Every sunny day we had in the Tordrillo Mountains was epic! And every day after was even more epic than the last. I remember being out this one day for a full 14 hours, shooting what I knew was the best snowboarding in the history of the sport. As the sun started to make its way to the horizon, we packed up and with minimal fuel started our flight back to the lodge. Then, over the next ridge, Travis spotted this amazing spine line with perfect light, and over the headset begged the pilot to turn around and drop him on top for one last run.<br />
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Reluctantly, the pilot gave in and we were back in action again. It was 9:37 p.m. and the sun was dropping when Travis dropped into this line. I shot from the hovering helicopter a few hundred feet out in front of him. Later, Travis described this line as one of the best runs of his life. Four feet of blower pow on each side of these almost vertical spines. Another day in the history books.
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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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  • One snowboarders nightmare, is anothers dream.
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  • This photo was taken late in the day during the making of the acclaimed Art of Flight movie. John Jackson called in his line over the radio before dropping into this one of a kind spine/pillow line and launched an air larger then any of us had ever seen before.
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  • 2010 Olympic Bronze medalist Scotty Lago, backside lipslides the cable of a moving chairlift at a ski resort in Chile.
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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.
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  • Cody Rawlinson models Gore-Tex boots for the 2011 "Ransom by Adidas" catalogue while the photographer shoots from an open door helicopter.
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  • A flowing river and contrasting trees in British Columbia.
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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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  • For the first time ever, Chile will host the surf contest 'Volcom Pelluhue Nutcracker', where the best national riders will compete in the wave 'La Gotera' known in Chilean Surf circles as the 'bone breaker', considered as one of the most complex and extreme in the country
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