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Couple weeks ago Stu and Shin did a quick 2 day Kokanee shoot in between a couple other jobs they were working on. It was a quick POV shoot using this newer style HD 2K camera. Pretty interesting as Shin was doing the stunts both mountain biking and snowboarding. They had this camera rigged up on a helmet which had to be hard wired into a laptop which was in a backpack. Needless to say it was a technical hassle but the shots looked great. We had a great team to make it happen as it was a quick run and gun type of shoot but with guys like “grip wizard” John Dryden and “man of all talents” Stan Goetz we had it dialed. The director was Chris Woods who was a pleasure to work with both professional and easy going, we got er’ done!!

Shin getting rigged up to run the new HD POV camera through the woods

Kokanee Samsquatch

May has been a busy month for us at WCP. We’ve been working separately on a couple shoots. Shin did a Timberland clothing still photo shoot and worked with a Vancouver based company “Means of Production”. We were on location up Brohm Ridge, 1 hour north of Vancouver, BC. They wanted snow and beautiful vistas but as you see it was dumping. They loved it anyhow. Throw in a couple of Brazilian models, some snowmobiles and a digital Hasselblad and you’ve got a successful shoot.

Timberland Clothing Still photo shoot

 Warren Miller Job on Whistler Mountain May 13-14 2009. Don’t know what to say about this one, other than we had 40 extras, 60 crew, executives from 3 countries, helicopters, 2 snowcats, sleds, the cineflex and pyrotechnics. We had the mountain all to ourselves. They even opened the lifts right from Creekside for us.

Helicopter with gyro stabilized cineflex HD camera

Stu Andrews calling the shots from the air

More Warren Miller Shoot here

Gribbon won best in show at Island Lake’s photo contest.

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gribbon shootout

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Last week I had the pleasure of guiding and organizing this Oakley/Burton/Friday productions shoot. Legendary Terje Haakonsen and Amazing Jake Bauvelt and a camera crew hung out in the Sea to Sky area and we filmed and found a whole new bunch of mountains and terrain that very few people have ridden if any at all. We had some great weather and good snow conditions and we pretty well nailed it down. Look for some of this in Friday Productions “Snowboard Diaries” a documentary series based on this years athlete Eero Ettala and friends.

Right after a successful photo exhibit at Blake Jorgenson’s gallery this past Saturday Dano had his Red Dodge Ram truck with his snowmobile stolen outside his apartment across from Science World in downtown Vancouver. His plate number is 8947EK so keep your eyes out. I’m sure we’d put up a reward for its recovery. We need him out there documenting!!

Just finished a quick 2 day shoot with Proof Films from NYC. Helped them with a on mountain still shoot with Powder Mountain Snowcats. Thanks to Mike Hart for killing it for us!

We got a call from photographer Mark Gallup about needing a filmer for a North Face shoot here in Whistler. Stu got to hang out with most of their top athletes documenting their day and doing some personal interviews for their website. Topped with some good snow and sunshine he pretty well killed it!

It took a bit of time as all good things do, but we are happy announce that our new look is live. Complete with RSS and HD reels.