We found this place just in time, as soon as the construction was done we we’re never going to get in here but the construction really added something different to the background.
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These pipes are iconic in the New Zealand landscape they can be seen from too far away which drew us in but still took us years for us to get this shot.
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Roadside attractions take on too much more meaning in snowboarding but the New Zealand snowpack clings to the top of the hills, when the chance to get away from the same old hits you can best bet the Diaries Down Under crew will be there first.
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From the start the pow turn has been the essence of snowboarding, no matter how many you do there will be infinite more to do and transferring the pleasure of that turn into an image is a constant.
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After moving into a half house, half garage with one of my earliest friends in infancy of the Q.C.R. gave me the opportunity to evolve my photography along with the style of the pseudo gang.
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Over a span of five years I have created a series of video for the Big Mountain skiing and snowboarding competitions, these events are visually stunning but also have a number complications to film. Being in the remote mountains of the South Island of New Zealand means a lack of access, power and internet all of which means creating quick turn arounds for the events far more of a challenge.
From Temple Basin where the car park is most of an hour walk from the car park to the base lodge of the field, each of the fields only have rope tows, which in themselves can be challenging in firm early morning conditions before adding large packs and lens trunks, which are very necessary to get a view of the event area you only have a few options all of which are a long way back we we’re shooting on 500mm lenses, sometimes with extenders and crop sensors producing 1,000mm focal lengths. Shooting was only half the battle, we would then finish with the runs before heading to the lodges, which if your at Craigieburn is even more of a hustle as within a few hours all power is turned off, no more editing, no more charging, possibly drive to get dial up speed internet to get the first shots out for the night and get at least a little sleep before being back up at sunrise an on the same plan for the next day.
Over the span of the years we built out the series of videos to have intros for the series released a month in advance for the competitors to get registered and ready with details and plan their schedules, highlights as events were back to back and we wanted to get the word out of the events without time to create a full video, the fails videos we’re first made as an entry for a film competition with the outtakes, when they received a large amount of attention we started adding the film to the line up. Snowboarding was split off into its own video as skiing is the major draw card for these events and we wanted to bring the snowboarding to those that don’t big mountain competitions showcased in the best way they can be.We made profiles to showcase more of the riders personalities more than just the skiing. As well as the event’s themselves which we showed not only the athletes but also bring a little info to the viewer.
The title cards also developed over the years, these were designed around a chalkboard style at first to reflect the grassroots nature of the events and the mountains they are run in. As the years progressed we moved more towards a flipboard, this was to help the transitions in and out, often name cards only needed to be up for a few seconds here and there.
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A selection of fashion images.
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Airtime and it’s sister winter show The Snow Show were a New Zealand action sports TV series with each short episode running around five minutes and covering an event, trip or profiling an athlete in their chosen sport from wakeboarding, snowboarding, skateboarding, surfing, moto-x and BMX. I directed, produced, filmed and episodes eighteen episodes over three seasons of the show. Traveling around New Zealand with some great friends and a couple of cameras gave some real special opportunities highlighted here.
The featured video above is about the World Heli Challenge during season one of The Snow Show and really showcases what the series tried to show with an international crew meeting with locals and running between multiple action sports in New Zealand. I followed one local athlete and showed a specific viewpoint on an event with a number of large personalities while keep the whole thing feel as if it could be your friends.
All summer episodes of airtime have been removed from the internet the Snow Show remains as it was hosted on a
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A couple of months in the Niseko backcountry with Will Jackways and a whole lot of powder, I sent the hard drive off to the USA where the Monster Energy crew put together this edit.
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When your shooting with Josh O theres always one more lap, one more trick, one more frame and this allows the juxtaposition of different tricks and tweaks.
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