The Project Archive
This portfolio archive is set out as a series of posts, documenting some of my work for 10 years from 2010 to 2020.
Rome Cross Rocket Snowboard Review
This season I've been board testing for Rome Snowboards. The board I was supplied with has no graphics or name on it, but you can tell it's a Cross Rocket. Read on for the review I just sent to Rome... Overall statement: Best all-around board I've ever ridden, for my...
Judging at the Junior Nationals
The Freeski and Snowboard Junior Nationals are on right now at Cardrona and I was lucky enough to be involved as one of the judges for the older age groups in the snowboard slopestyle. We had three age groups to judge: 12-14, 14-16 and 16-18, both male and female. The...
Sequence panorama techniques
Shooting sequence panoramas is a tricky business. Especially ones that involved a lot of people, fast moving subjects and changeable light. I've shot a number of sequence panoramas previously, both on the snow and in other adventure sports such as mountain biking. But...
HDR panoramas!
It's been a while coming, but I've finally got my technique down for creating HDR panoramas. With a new real estate section on 360queenstown-wanaka about to launch, having the opportunity to shoot this amazing property overlooking Lake Wanaka was perfect timing......
A sunrise hike on Isthmus Peak
My alarm went off at 3.30. Contrary to my own expectations I was wide awake in an instant. The excitement of the sunrise mission to come was had me going already. I had been planning this sunrise hike for a month or so now, waiting for the right gap in work loads and...
Recent panoramas
I'm back working on 360queenstown-wanaka full-time now and shooting 360 panoramas like there's no tomorrow. Of course, shooting this many panos means A LOT of time spent in front of a screen stitching. Here's a selection of recent flat panoramas I'm pretty happy...
Tokyo skyline at night
While spending a few nights in Tokyo on my way out of Japan, I was lucky enough to be staying on one of the upper floors of a rather impressive apartment building - absolutely stunning views of the Tokyo Tower and Tokyo skyline at night...
Powder Detours at Asahidake
Here's a fun stop-motion edit from one of the trips I was guiding in January this year with Powder Detours to Asahidake - one of my favourite spots in the whole of Japan. Stop-motion edits are super-easy to put together. All you need is a decent DSLR camera with a...
Back Guiding in Japan
Every year I make the winter migration back to Japan for a period of time. Unlike most winter migrations this one follow the snow. Based in Niseko for a few months of guiding and coaching, my short powder-filled winter here is a hard thing not to …
360queenstown-wanaka Goes Live
The last six months of my working life (and large proportion of the rest of my life while I come to think about it) has been focused around this new web project for the local Queenstown and Wanaka region; 360queenstown-wanaka. Success… We’re now…
SBINZ Instructors Manual goes online
Last year I worked on a collaborative project re-writing and expanding the SBINZ Instructors Manual for Snowboard Instruction New Zealand (the snowboard division of the NZSIA). My role here involved writing numerous sections, photography, image editing and diagram...
Whitelines Resort Guide
WSG Media recently teamed up with Whitelines snowboard magazine to produce the Whitelines Resort Guide. As one of the writers for WSG Media over the years, I was asked to write the review on Niseko, Japan. It's widely known that Niseko rates highly for it's amazing...
Making the most of things
Rough start to the season this year in NZ. Driving up to Snowpark for my first riding day of the season was surreal. It felt like I was actually heading up to shuttle the Snowpark road on mountain bikes. But we had boards not bikes. Here’s a quick…
Article from the Toyota Big Air
Last Saturday was the 15th annual Toyota Big Air in Sapporo, Japan. Myself and videographer Sam Lynch scored a few press passes for the event, and managed to squeeze it in on the last night of our Hokkaido road trip. Here’s the article I wrote abo…
Cardrona Web Projects
In June 2009, just prior to the NZ winter season, I worked closely with Cardrona Marketing (and members of the Tactic Group team) to establish and implement a social media monitoring and recording system, and create Cardrona's first Twitter and Facebook marketing...