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 »
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 »
“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 »
Micro-adjustment of focus, and the limits autofocus when shooting in a snow shower
Feb 10, 2010 | Categories: Rugby Union, Techniques | Tags: 1DIV, adjustment, autofocus, Bagshot, Canon 1D Mark IV, Dan Cole, Danny Care, England, lens, Lewis Moody, micro, Nick Easter, Paul Hodgson, Pennyhill Park Hotel, Riki Flutey, rugby, snow, Toby Flood, training | 1 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 »
