Nikon has just posted an article on their website that I shot for the Summer 2009 issue of Nikon World Magazine. If you missed it last summer or don’t subscribe to Nikon World, read it online here. The article details some of the trials and tribulations of shooting such a remote and difficult adventure race...
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The 2009 Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau — December 8, 2009 Sitting in Brian Bielmann’s office, we were studying the weather warnings for Hawaii’s north shore. The swell coming toward us was for waves so big they would rip houses off their foundations and drag them out to sea. Brian’s brother, whose house was...
I just got word that my book Digital Masters: Adventure Photography is now available and is shipping from Amazon.com. This is a major surprise to me as the publisher told me there was no way they could get it out before January 1st. I guess they worked something out – haven’t heard back from them...
Last week Lowepro put up a special section on their website highlighting the Toploader Pro camera bag series they released earlier this year. I was sent a prototype of the bag to use while covering the 2009 Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race in February and put it through some serious abuse. Lowepro asked me to put...
I spent the last month in Patagonia, more specifically in Chilean Patagonia – at the very end of the continent, covering the 2009 Wenger Patagonian Adventure Race (and afterwards shooting stock images in Torres del Paine). Let’s just say the race was full of carnage. Six people ended up in the hospital. Everyone was ok...
A few days ago I was strapped into the back of an airplane with the door removed. I had my climbing harness on and was anchored to three attachment points in the back of a Piper Cub. Dressed in a down jacket with windproof gloves and a face mask we took off to test out...
I spent most of February and a wee bit of March in Chilean Patagonia. I was flown down to cover the Patagonia Expedition Race which started in Punta Arenas and went south from there – way south. The race was 600+ kilometers long and like a triathlon on steroids the teams of four (with at...
