Uintas Ruth Lake-Flake, Rack and Repel
June 29, 2009 | Filed Under PHOTOS, WEEKLY VISUAL | Leave a Comment
Just recently started broadening my climbing range rising above the Salt Lake Valley heat tramp one hour east to the high Uinta National Forrest. The cool, comfortable afternoon climbing temps at 10,000ft were perfect for sending allowing both Jamieson Stuart and myself to put a few more solid routes under our belts. Ruth Lake and the Good Medicine Wall immediately filled my top spot for crags I have climbed on so far. Here’s a few snaps from this past weekend stay tuned for lots more from this beautiful place.
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Iphone Fridays: LGB AIRPOT
June 26, 2009 | Filed Under IPHONE FRIDAY | Leave a Comment
Jumping on the Iphone photo bandwagon…. Every friday I will post up a new one. Welcome to numero uno!
Season Gallery on SNOWREV
June 18, 2009 | Filed Under NEWS, PHOTOS | 1 Comment
I put together a gallery of 56 of my favorite photos from the 2008/2009 season. Along with the photos and captions I recorded six audio tracks to go along with six of my absolute favorites of the gallery. You can hear me explain some behind the scenes stories as well as what it took and why I liked the particular photo. Click the links below to travel into cyberspace straight to my season gallery!
Jump on a visual journey through the eye of 22 yr old Salt Lake City, Utah based photographer Andrew Miller for his season gallery. “I went through my catalogs starting from my first day shooting to my last grabbing one to two of my favorite photos from the shoot. Hope you enjoy!”
View the photos and listen to the audio from my season gallery favorites HERE
Injured Riders Foundation Donation
June 15, 2009 | Filed Under NEWS, PHOTOS | Leave a Comment
This past season I donated some photos to the Injured Riders Foundation. This foundation was started by SNOWREV founder Johnny Centi after experiencing a serious back injury. Having no health insurance and no extra funds for surgery while dealing with our countries ridiculous health care system various health insurance providers showed no support or help for his situation. After going through all this he wanted to show support and help people who have hurt themselves participating in action sports like snowboarding, skateboarding, climbing and surfing.
I have been involved with SNOWREV and worked closely with Johnny since 2006, remembering back then he was always talking about starting this foundation. I’m stoked for Johnny and to finally see the IRF picking up speed launching a new site and recently receiving the 501(c)(3) status ableing them to start accepting tax deductible donations.
I know the IRF will really change riders lives having almost been in a situation were I would have needed help like this. In 2006 I severely blew my knee out snowboarding having to have major surgery and extensive physical therapy. For the whole season of 05/06 I was snowboarding, skateboarding and snowmobiling with out health insurance and luckily a WEEK before I blew out my knee I had signed up to be covered. Waiting to sign up a week later I would have found my self with over $50,000 in medical bills. This is great foundation and I’m glad to be contributing even if its only my photos. Stop by read the stories and find out more info on how you can be involved.
- Photo on the ” Our Story” page of Johny about to drop on a misty day at Brighton, Utah.
- Graphic design and photos for tabs on the IRF Contact and Home page.
- Read my profile on the IRF site HERE
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A Colorful Perspective
June 13, 2009 | Filed Under NEWS | Leave a Comment
On a recent trip back to my old stomping grounds I had a chance to help my sixteen year old sister Ashley complete a project for her 10th grade photography 1 class. I tried to get her to start looking at everyday things from a different perspective while noticing the small details and composing the object in a unique ways. This was the final collage for her project.
Thompson Pass After Dark
June 10, 2009 | Filed Under PHOTOS, WEEKLY VISUAL | Leave a Comment
I found my self shooting a lot of long exposures during our many nights staying on Thompson Pass, Alaska. On the clear nights the stars were out in full force and the mountains stood tall glowing under the moonlight creating an amazing luminous frozen landscape. Despite the cold I would try and stay out as long as I could shooting and waiting for a chance to capture the Northern Lights but mother nature decided against giving me the famous show, which was a bummer. Unfortunately not having a remote trigger or a timer remote controller I was left with my in camera 30 second exposure. Although I wasn’t able to get some really long exposures I was happy with what I was able to get under the time limit circumstances. Below are just a couple of my favorites from the trip including the first photo set of multiple self portraits taken around the ABA base camp where I popped myself with my g10. Second photo is of the Moon rising over The Books Mtn Range and the third photo a panoramic shot of ABA base camp under a full moon.
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All Roads Lead To: Valdez Alaska
June 8, 2009 | Filed Under NEWS, PHOTOS, TRIPS, VIDEOS | Leave a Comment
Going up to Alaska for 14 days this past April was definitely the highlight of my season. Valdez and Thompson pass has to be one of the most amazing places I have ever been. The things I learned and experiences I had blew away any thing else I have ever done in my 13 years of snowboarding. My only regrets being not snowboarding as much as I would have liked and not being able riding a true AK line for myself. But every one I shot sure got some and more. I was stoked to just watch, shoot and have the chance to be in this incredible place. Hopefully someday I will make it up there again!
We broke the trip in to two featured stories. Part One being all snowmobile accessed zones on Thompson Pass and Part Two being all zones accessed by a heli. Click below to check out my photo galleries and the very smooth edit by Mark Dangler from the SNOWREV AK trip.
Man Game with CIIAIR
June 1, 2009 | Filed Under NEWS, WEEKLY VISUAL | Leave a Comment
This is a pretty funny photo set I shot earlier this yea for my buddies clothing company CIIAIR. These photos are all about the reactions deep in an intense session of the Man Game. I had never heard of it or played before but the rules are: Sit a table with a couple of beverages, light a firework on the table and who ever last sitting down the longest wins. That alone should give a small insight on how these characters live.
