His name is Robert Paulson.

Well, not really. The winner of the first ever Craption Contest is............

David Salmons. His winning comment: "I'll smile when you give me a drink and a hooker, otherwise.....fuck off."

Way to go. You won me over with your ability to come very close to being over the line without going over it. And you somehow found my weakness for using booze and hookers in the same sentence. Nothing like cheap low brow humour I say.

I do not have David's email for some reason so hopefully he will contact for his prize. If you know him, let him know he won please.

It seems like everyone took the CRAP part of Craption and really went with it. Thanks everyone for your bathroom humour. Next month we'll strive for something a little more mature hopefully.

Honourable mention goes to Rodger Obley for his caption below. He also has a pretty cool blog so check it out. http://rodgerobley.blogspot.com/

"TacoBell for breakfast was NOT a good choice.. Pinch the cheeks, just pinch the cheeks"

The next CAPtion contest will be in the coming weeks. The prize will likely be one of my new, signature, private label, limited edition AIRHOLE shred masks which won't be in stores till the fall.

In the meantime. Here's something to practice your next caption writing skills with. Sammy Lubeke, pro snowboarder and very funny guy before the gold medal hockey game between Canada and the USA. Bless his soul, he had no idea what was about to go down...........

          

On my way back home. Fought the good fight in Haines, Alaska but mother nature prevailed this time. Maybe next year.........

Here are a few shots of some of the peaks that popped out one afternoon when it was too windy too fly.

I've been on the road for the last 25 out of 30 days so haven't been keeping up to date on the blog. Sorry. The Caption Contest is now closed and I'll announce the winner in the coming days. I'm in Alaska now with some serious internet and phone issues so posting will be random for the next couple weeks.

Here's a photo from the tiny plane we flew in to get here. The pilot was talking on his cell phone the whole time and eating trail mix. Only in Alaska.

Welcome to the first installment of the Craption contest. I want to see what kind of crap you guys can come up with! The winner, as chosen by me and a few very trusted comrades, will win a 16 x 20 print of their choice from 'The Store' or almost any of the other photos on the site.

Here's what you do:
1. Look at the photo below.
2. Think hard.
3. Think real hard.
4. Write a caption in the comment section below.
5. No vulgar, overly offensive or politically incorrect language please! Use your common sense. If you don't have any don't worry because I get to approve all comments before they are posted.
6. You must fill in your real FULL NAME and EMAIL. This is NOT OPTIONAL even though it says it is. Without this info, your caption will not be submitted.
7. Forward this to as many friends as you can so we can get some funny dialog going!
8. Check back regularly as new captions will be posted daily..........(I hope).

Here is the photo:



I'll get you started with a caption of my own:

"Fuck My Life."

  http://www.redbullillume.com/insight/about.html

We all love Red Bull don't we?? Jagr Bombs. Vodka Red Bull. Massive marketing budgets well spent on cool events and action sports. Crushed Ice anyone?? One of the coolest events out there.

Well, the Red Bull illume photo contest is back. After a multi year absence, it's back. What is it?? Basically, it's an open call for photos in categories ranging from Culture to New Creativity to Sequences to Illumination. And it's action sports only so back off Sports Illustrated. Although the list of "sports" is long (Running?? Mountainboarding?? Seriously??), the bulk of the photography is coming from snowsports, surfing, skateboarding, biking (BMX, Moto and Mountain), Climbing etc..........

Have a look at their website and the gallery of images that were selected as finalists in 2007. All of these photos were made into huge lightboards and displayed at various locations around the world culminating in the final show where one single winner was chosen and given a huge prize (a photo shoot of his/her choice in an exotic location with the Red Bull athletes of their choice).

Here are a few of the shots I have entered. To date, almost 6000 photos have been entered by almost 2500 photographers. Entry deadline is Feb 28. Winners will be announced in May so hopefully I'll be following this up with news that I was selected. Cross your toes.

Culture category.......



Wings category.........



New Creativity category...........



Playground category.........



Sequence category............

I made my first ever trip to Saskatchewan a few weeks ago for Christmas with my girlfriend to 'meet the parents'. It was really cold and really flat. Not what I'm used to on the west coast.

I took some photos. I look forward to going back in the summer time and shooting some more photos in color this time.

It's January and we are out there working hard. It's been busy lately with some half decent sunny days and a bit of snow up in the mountains. I can't show you any of the new snowboard action shots because they are all for editorial and advertising for next fall/winter. Very hush hush, y'know.............

But here are a couple shots of the lads on their snowmobiles on the way to a place we call Seagram Lakes.

I had a request from an Argentinian magazine for some photos yesterday. And then I drank a bottle of Argentinian red wine (not by myself). A nice little Malbec. So then I thought about my Argentinian summer vacation, I mean work trip, and so here are a couple photos. I can't post any snowboard stuff because it was all shot for the DC Snowboards 2011 campaign which is next year. I can't let you see into the future like that cause it would blow your mind. Go buy a Delorian if you want to go Back to the Future. There's one parked down the street from me.

This is Las Lenas. It's a very beautiful place. The mountains are really old.

In early January we went out to the Kootenay Mountains for the annual Greg Todds Memorial NoBoard Race. It's a great time, with old friends coming out to honour the memory of our friend Greg who died in an avalanche.

This year I really wanted to try to capture some of the feeling and culture of the event and the people using my favourite camera, the Hasselblad 501 with an 80mm 2.8 lens. I shot a photo of Greg with this same camera a few days before he died so it felt right. I used Porta 160 and Kodak Tmax 100 BW film. The feeling and look of the camera and film really captures the essence of what this event is all about: Friends, fun, competition (in a fun way), and straight up redneck/hippy BC madness. See you all next year!!