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We packed up the gear on Saturday and headed to Mad River Mountain for their annual Swamp Stomp.  For those of you that are not sure, the Swamp Stomp is an event where they dig a pit at the bottom of one of the slopes and fill it with water.

This years pit was 150 ft long and about 12 ft wide.  It was so cool to see these guys (and girls) come tearing down the slope and skip across the water.  A lot of them made it all the way, some of them fell short.  One thing is for sure, it was a blast.  While out there, Greg decided to test out how well his D300 is sealed to the elements.  Looks as if Nikon did a good job because his camera just had to be dried off.  It was back up and working just fine later that day.  I wish I could say the same thing for Greg.  He got a really bad sun burn.  I got some sun too, but mine just gave me a reddish face with a funny hat tan line.

Here are a few more pictured from the event.  As you can see even the ones who didn’t make it made for great photos.

This video features 2917 still frames of skiers and snowboarders doing their thing around the slopes of Mad River Mountain. We stitched all the shots together and put ‘em to a great tune by The Highway Beautiful -- A Grown Up Childs Song, check them out on itunes.

This video is a quick example (low resolution to save time) of how many frames are taken on a photo shoot just to get maybe 50-100 images for the client. Let me know what you think.

On January 30th, as part of Winterfest Weekend, Mad River Mountain will be hosting a Big Air Event in the Capital Park at 6:00PM. Skiers and Riders alike will show off their talent to send themselves hurtling through the air in an effort to win the first place prize! Ryan Andreas Photography will be there covering the event from start to finish.

We will be focusing on the BIG AIR competition, utilizing three camera, three strobes, and two shooters. We’ve been planning this shoot for a week, tossing ideas around on how to make this shoot better than the last. Our biggest question, will the strobes work more than once.  It is going to be cold, very cold, 15 degree cold. We are asking a lot of gear to work in weather that we are not sure we want to be in. But, we want the shot, and we’ll do anything to get it.

Here is what we are planning: Ryan will be shooting a D3, Greg will be shooting a D300, and we will have a D200 setup as a remote camera. We will be sharing 3 strobes, one placed on the right of the jump, one placed on the left of the jump, and one placed with the D200.  Using Pocket Wizards, we will be able to control a strobe and/or the remote camera.