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Photo gallery in the Guardian today:
"Beautiful Games: wilderness skiing
Shot on some of the most remote slopes in the world, including those of Antarctica, these images by American photographer and adventurer Jim Harris are rather spectacular. The combination of pristine snow, beautiful vistas and daredevil skiing is enough to make us rather envious of his career. His pics are unrehearsed, one-take moments which capture true wilderness skiing as a first-hand experience. 'Photographers who can climb and ski alongside top athletes are the ones who, most often, I think, bring back something insightful to share,' he says. Harris studied biology and worked as an activities course instructor before a 33-day trip across Wrangell St Elias National Park on the Southern Spiral Traverse shifted his professional attention towards photographic, videographic and written assignments about adventures within the natural world"
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2013/aug/21/beautiful-games-gallery-wilderness-skiing#/?picture=415515177&index=0
Absolutely amazing. I rather doubt I'll see anything like that first hand!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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They are very good, as skiing shots go; I like No. 5
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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he posts as Gnarwhale on TGR. Well worth checking out some of his TRs. This is not ski related but is one of my all time favourites: http://tinyurl.com/lqkq6x5
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Fantastic photos...thanks Maireadoconnor, for putting them up. 
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No. 11 did it for me 
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yep, time to start thinking about skiing again!
bit of a chill in the air today too...
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Amazing. Some of those pics give me vertigo just looking at them!
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Great photos - much better than we do for the SH calendar - Thanks Maireadoconnor, for posting.
8611, I agree... for me it's when the nights start drawing in ...
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WayneC,
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much better than we do for the SH calendar
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Apples and pears. Skiing in Antarctica is not what most snowHeads do!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Pedantica, Apples and pears? Stairs? Or apples and oranges - Incomparable?
It's not the locations, it's the composition and quality, in a completely different league. I've been lucky enough to have some of my photos chosen for the SH calendar but think all these 15 images are far superior to any I’ve ever taken.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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WayneC,
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it's the composition and quality
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Oh, OK. Though the location of ski photos does itself lend some assistance to composition, perhaps.
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| he posts as Gnarwhale on TGR. Well worth checking out some of his TRs. This is not ski related but is one of my all time favourites: http://tinyurl.com/lqkq6x5 |
Wow - that was truly amazing - Thanks for posting that... as one of the comments said on the blog "That is seriously one of the best things I've ever read on the internet or print".
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You know it makes sense.
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Arno,
That is one mother of a walk (and float)!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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^ ^ ^ This
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Poster: A snowHead
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My husband has a phrase, "you could drop-kick a camera and get an amazing picture" in a place like that. Even so, those photos are a cut above.
But yeah, it'll be a little while before I'm likely to be skiing in places like that...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| WayneC wrote: |
| Arno wrote: |
| he posts as Gnarwhale on TGR. Well worth checking out some of his TRs. This is not ski related but is one of my all time favourites: http://tinyurl.com/lqkq6x5 |
Wow - that was truly amazing - Thanks for posting that... as one of the comments said on the blog "That is seriously one of the best things I've ever read on the internet or print". |
(I know it's bad form answering your own posts) - but reading some of the comments on the Alaska Trip TR - I'm astounded that the photos on that trip were taken on a Panasonic Lx3... you can see why he ended up as a toggy...
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