I knew there was good riding to be had out there (it is Chamonix after all) but it’s difficult to explain how good, or how rewarding it is to walk, slide, scramble and ski to earn every one of your turns in fresh, untracked snow under a perfectly blue alpine sky
Apr 23, 2011 | Categories: Winter Sports | Tags: adventure, alps, back, board, chamonix, country, deep, france, fresh, lee, lirvine, mcnabsnowboarding.com, mountains, off, off-piste, out, piste, powder, snow, snowboard, split, splitboard, steep, switzerland, touring, white | Leave A Comment »
Pocket sized HD slow motion can’t be far away for the next round of high-end compacts. I might need to give up on my old faithful G9 at some point!
Mar 22, 2011 | Categories: Everything Else, Winter Sports | Tags: action, alps, casio, ex, exilim, fh100, irvine, lee, motion, mountains, slo-mo, slow, snow, snowboard, sport, video, winter | 1 Comment »
Obviously, stick my 15mm fish-eye on it!
Mar 16, 2011 | Categories: Techniques, Winter Sports | Tags: 5d, canon, irvine, lee, mountains, review, ski, snow, snowboard, sport | 1 Comment »
On skis? Down that? Really? And then he’s going to spin round 720 degrees? Sideways?
Nov 07, 2010 | Categories: Winter Sports | Tags: 2010, action, air, battersea, big, freestyle, freeze, irvine, lee, london, relentless, ski, skiiing, sport, thefreezefestival.com, winter | Leave A Comment »
Definitely one of those this-could-be-anywhere-in-the-mountains days.
Apr 12, 2010 | Categories: Winter Sports | Tags: back-country, carnethy, edinburgh, hike, penicuik, pentlands, scotland, snow, snowboard, sport, spring, sun, winter | Leave A Comment »
There’s been some amazing photopgraphy coming out of Vancouver recently and we’ve been following it all with interest.
Mar 01, 2010 | Categories: Everything Else, Uncategorized, Winter Sports | Tags: canada, gold, hacked, hockey, olympics, stern, toronto, vancouver | Leave A Comment »
“The viz is shit. We’re going to ride the Grand Montet trees if you want to come.”
There only one answer to that.
Feb 16, 2010 | Categories: Everything Else, Winter Sports | Tags: alps, chamonix, deep, extreme, fun, mountains, off-piste, people, powder, snow, snowboard, sport, steep, sun, trees | 4 Comments »
Guildford Flames send the Manchester Phoenix packing with a 9-2 victory whilst your Slik Images photographer tests the new Canon 1D mark IV.
Jan 17, 2010 | Categories: Everything Else, Winter Sports | Tags: English Premier League, game, Guildford Flames, Guildford Spectrum, ice, ice hockey, Manchester Phoenix, match, skate | Leave A Comment »
Normally a frustrating, yet theraputic, excercise that helps me be ruthless about which images I like and why.
Dec 26, 2009 | Categories: Cycling, Everything Else, Winter Sports | Tags: biking, chamonix, Cycling, cyclocross, france, free ride, innerleithen, mountain, mountain bike, parkour, race, scotland, ski, snow, snowboard, winter | 1 Comment »
Head for the mountains! Snow is falling in the Alps with some resorts opening 6 weeks early. Lee and I will be making nuisances of ourselves during the season.
Nov 09, 2009 | Categories: Winter Sports | Tags: air, alps, boarder, jump, mountain, skiing, snow, snowboard, winter | 1 Comment »
