Snowboard 3 - April

This is my favorite of the series of shots that I took.

Snowboard 2 - April

A couple more shots in the series from today at Steven's Pass

Snowboard - April

Spent some time at the Terrain Park at Steven's Pass today.   Photographed this boarder coming off one of the waterfall jumps.

Sick Shutter Speed

This rider is one of Dane and Austin's friends taken at the Terrain Park at Steven's Pass.   He is coming down the backside of one of  the waterfall jumps.

Terrain Park View

This is a view looking down the waterfall jumps back towards the lodges at Steven's Pass.   Dane Gilbertson can be seen in the lower right.

Dane Gilbertson #4

Dane Gilbertson coming off the water fall jump progressing through one of his tricks at Steven's Pass Terrain Park.

Austin Curran 3

This photograph of Austin was taken with a Nikon D300 using a 200mm lens at f5.6, 1/1000 sec at ISO500.

Dane Gilbertson 3

A black and white conversion.  This is Dane coming down through the waterfall at Steven's Pass.   Photograph was taken with a 55mm lens, f5, 1/450sec at ISO640.

Austin Curran 2

Austin hitting the landing on the lower side of the hill after coming off his jump.

Dane Gilbertson 2

This is one of the early photographs taken while Dane was coming down the slope towards me.

Austin Curran

Here is Austin Curran hitting the same jump in the waterfall section of the Terrain Park.     Austin told me that although there was a lot of fresh powder, it was very slow snow and they weren't able to get the speed they were hoping for.  When Austin isn't up snowboarding he plays football for Central Washington University.

Dane Gilbertson

I spent friday afternoon at the Steven's pass terrain park with Dane Gilbertson and Austin Curran.   The sun teased in the morning and a few times in the afternoon but failed to show reliably for the photographs.   The first half of the day I positioned myself below the various waterfall jumps so that I would catch them coming towards and to the side of me.  The photograph above was taken later in the day when I followed them down the park in a line behind and to the left of them.   Here Dane is doing a forward sommersault with twist.    I'm sure there is a name for it, Dane will have to enlighten me.

Steven's Pass Terrain Park 2

This is a composite of three images I took as this snow-boarder hit the entry of a big jump.  What you can't see is the landing off to my left - you end up coming down on a about a 60 degree slope, the bottom of which is another 50 yards down the hill... I hike around it.   The shot was made with a Nikon D300, 55 mm lens at f7.1, 1/250second shutter, ISO 200.

Steven's Pass - Terrain Park

The terrain park at Steven's Pass is not for the faint of heart, particularly a photographer whose downhill skills are limited at best.   After about a 10 minute video and $5.00 I had my season pass to the park.  The video is a much about etiquette and planning your jumps as it is about safety in the park.   The photographs I took were at the second big jump.   Needless to say I hike around this spot.   No way I was going to attempt to go over it.   This trip was a preparation trip for a photo shoot planned next week at the park.   It allowed me to map the terrain and identify the best (and safest for me) locations to set up my camera and photograph from.   Hopefully next friday will be sunny, little wind, and no snow.