Stylewars 09 Photo Showdown

Andrew Roth at the door of our lodging. In the fog on the glass I had written "This Weather Sucks" but it was hard to get the right lighting to make it show up

This years STYLEWARS event at Falls Creek was plagued by some seriously bad weather. There was meant to be a Photo Showdown comp whereby all of the photographers present would submit a bunch of shots they had taken over the four days of the event.

The weather was all over the shop, we had a mix of rain, fog, snow and plenty of wind to boot. The comp itself only ran for a few hours on the last day when the fog finally lifted which was amazing to witness, not so great to shoot though. The rail jam however ran as scheduled and you can check out a gallery for it here

Once the event wrapped up the majority of people bailed to Jindabyne for the Boost Sno Sho so the photo showdown never happened. This was probably a good thing as I wasn't the only photographer who realistically had shot next to nothing. Anyways below were some of the pics I was going to submit that I figured might be of interest..

The garage of boards.

Mikey Williams gap to front board

Tom Pelley front board

Cohen Davies nose slide

Charles Reid front 270 on

My first flag!!

The photos most resorts tend to use for their advertising is always questionable at the best of times. Over the past couple of years I have been fortunate enough to shoot some imagery for Perisher. While some of my shots have popped up in their brouchures before I have never had a shot used on a banner or a flag.

The image used is of young 17 yo ripper Sam Murphy shot in late July last year. Sam pictured below on the right was also pretty stoked on his first flag too. Hi five Sam!!

The original pic below of Sam

Japan Part 2.

Finally got around to editing through some more shots from Japan.

I swear I could shoot these monkeys all day, they are just so damn entertaining



I think I shall name this pic "Reign In Blood". I can hear SLAYER just looking at it.

Copped a lot of bad weather in the Nagano region so had a lot of down time waitiing for the rain to stop. Mitch Allan killing time..

I put my time to good use and whipped these up.