Has it been a month since my last confession.......I mean post...........apologies, 'tis the season of busy-ness and travel and mayhem.

Well, the snowboard tradeshows are wrapped up, the 2013 products have been released and shown to the world. In August of 2011 I went to New Zealand to shoot the 2013 product catalog with the DC Snowboard team. We shot the photos over the course of 10 days in the southern hemisphere. It was a really busy shoot for me. Everything from on hill action to studio product photos. Most of what you see below are photos we conceived prior to heading to NZ. We based many shots around the graphics for the pro model boards. Donkeys, DJ's, Gorillas,Helicopters and Beers........oh my!

New Zealand is an amazing and beautiful place. Special thanks go out to NZ DC rep Hamish Caunter and DC Snow art director Brian Thompson.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back in the land of high speed internet so as promised Part 2 of my winter 2011 snowboard photography slideshow.

Different song. Some new photos and 2 minutes of your life you will never get back!

I will be dropping the full version of this slideshow, 10 minutes of action, landscapes and lifestyles, later today so stay tuned (or get tuned and then watch it.....................)

Remember: watch it in HD if you can!

2011 Year in Review - Short Version 2 from colinadair on Vimeo.

Different version with different music and some different photos. Music by The Breeders

I've been working on this for a while but I've also been actually working so it took a little longer than I thought. I know you've all been waiting for this so here it is. Well. PART 1 anyway. I've got a few more sllideshows from my 2011 photography done as well but one at a time..........damn!

Here it is. 2011 condensed into about 2.5 minutes. That's a year of my life crushed into a internet friendly timespace and size.

PLEASE, if you have Apple TV or a big screen watch it in HD it's so much better than this pinner version (Don't just click enlarge because it will look pixelated and you will think my photos suck!). Respect.

Riders include: Devun Walsh, Iikka Backstrom, Ryan Tiene, Aaron Biittner, Jody Wachniak, Andrew Geeves, Kimmy Fasani, Jonas Carlsson and a few others.............Music is by David Bowie.

 

    

 

If you like that you can watch the slideshows from 2010 here:

http://blog.colinadair.com/_blog/Colin_Adair_Photography_Blog/post/2010_in_the_Rearview_Year_in_Review_for_You/ 

I arrived home from France a few days ago. Obviously the first thing everyone wants to know is: "how was your trip?". Well I quickly realized after explaining it over and over that there's probably a few of you out there that have been sitting by the computer night and day waiting for me to post something about my trip.

Chamonix France is the epicenter for world class riding, skiing, mountaineering and all things extreme you can do on a mountain. The problem for us was that there was barely any snow and we are not mountaineers no matter how badass we think we are in the Whistler backcountry. So we did what any red blooded snowboarders would do: We drank a lot of beer and had some fun in the spring time conditions. Here's a small gallery of shots that kind of sums up life on the road, or at least life in France when there is no snow.







Like I said, Chamonix is really extreme. This poor person didn't quite make it down the mountain in one piece. Or maybe they just drank too much and lost their pants...........



The local taxi service.



Ok so there was a little bit of snow but you had to be a mountain goat to enjoy it.



Ok so there was a little bit of snow and we did manage to get some shots but this snow was pretty much farmed from all the surrounding runs to make a good park set up. The DC Europe guys did an insane job putting this all together.



In the picture below I am standing on the middle jump of the picture above looking at the landing. Why not throw a sick mini ramp in there.





Ok so there wasn't that much snow..............





This is by far the scariest place I've ever been in my life. The Aiguille du Midi. Some psychos built this on top of the peak of the mountain back in the 1800's. It's literally impossible to imagine how they did that back in those days. Today you just take a tram up there and eat pizza and drink red wine.



It's on top of a peak like this.



We did a lot of this.



And there were a lot of these.



These two are the reason I have grey hairs on my head, aka, Stress Pubes. Check their blog, it's pretty entertaining. Polar Opposites.



Everybody is a photographer/filmmaker these days. Lauri Heiskari has some skills with the camera. Check out his blog: Lauri Good Times



Random Euro street shot.



Ode to skate photographer Grant Brittain.





Life on the road is so glamourous..................