After a few days of stormy weather it cleared and got cold, very cold. Going towards the darkest day of the year it’s not easy to find sun on Titlis but when and where the sun hit it’s usually very good light. Since the whole mountain is in the shade until 11am now I get a few hours to just ride before I bring out the camera. This week I have been shooting with local snowboarder Yves Hüsler, Check Republic ripper Robin Kaleta, dalmasen Johan Jonsson and I also snapped a frame or two on my girlfriend riding.
More snow is coming in tonight and it’s still very cold.
Here are a few shots from the last couple of days, I won’t show the good stuff though. That´s for magazines etc.

Johan warming up while I freeze my ass of

Yves checking out the pow

My ripping girl Sandra

Engelberg

The best days on the mountain does not always have to be blue bird pow days. The preseason storm days are just as good if not better. Just riding with your friends without the heavy photo backpack and no stress what so ever.
Today was just a day like that.

DPS Lotus 138 team

Jon and Sandra

Dropping in?

With quite a bit of new snow on Saturday I had a mellow day riding with friends as the perfect warm up for my gallery opening at Ski Lodge in the evening.
It was nice to see everyone who turned up and made it a great party.
Unfortunately I did not take that many photos, I was too busy talking to people and enjoying the good sounds of Sandro.

Yves enjoying the pow

Some of my prints

The bar

I have updated my website with new images so please take a look here.
And also if you are in Engelberg this weekend please stop by Ski Lodge Engelberg for my gallery opening and party.

So the snow finally came to the Alps. Two days ago it was green above 1800m but in the last 24h it has snowed about 60cm in Engelberg village.
I almost booked a trip to Canada a few days ago but decided to wait and see what this storm did and I’m happy to be here now.
Everything was closed today but the guys at Ski Lodge Engelberg were kind enough to give us a shuttle ride up with their bus as far as we could go.
Luckily I brought my little Panasonic LX 3 so I can show you how much snow we got.
Looks like there might be some sun tomorrow.

Deep

I just finished off a catalog shoot for Swedish clothing brand Tenson.
It was quite challenging with the lack of snow but after 3 days of shooting everyone was happy.
The snow conditions in the Alps are not the best at the moment. I have been looking at going over to Canada on a two week trip but not sure yet, I will decide next week.

The Tenson boys are happy

I stopped by Oakley’s European head quarter in Zurich today. I had a productive meeting and I also came home with a bunch of new stuff for the winter.
Thanks Urs and Christine
I’m stoked to try out the new gear for real soon.

I’ve been to Sweden for 10 days. I manage to have a few meetings for the upcoming winter, attend a film release and go lobster fishing.
My cousin and his friend have 14 lobster traps and they usually get a lot of lobster. When we went out it was a bit too cold but we got 3 lobsters and a ton of crabs. We kept a few crabs to fill out the poor catch and made a great seafood dinner.
Now I’m back in Switzerland again. I’m having a small vernisage next Saturday (7th) in Sarnen at Amrhein Optik. The gallery will run through November.
Then in two weeks I got a catalog shoot coming up so I really hope we get some more snow.
Here are a few iPhone shots from my lobster session.

Magnus and Micke ready to get wet

Lobster trap

Kalle with the first catch

This is what we got

Dinner

I was a bit surprised when I saw one of my shots as a huge wall print in a sports shop in Sweden. It’s a shot Peak Performance bought of Seb Garhammer skiing in Haines and apparently they made a billboard of it.
Nice to see that my old Canon 1D Mark II with 8.2 MP holds together ok for something big like that
(My out of focus I Phone shot might not show that)

Stadium XXL

I just came back home to Switzerland after 10 amazing days in Portland. The exhibition was a great success and people were really excited about the whole show. I really what to thank everyone that showed up, I never thought I would see that many friends show up from all over.
Of course the people thank the most are Mark and Elisa. I know Mark has worked over 8 months to organize everything around the show and at the same time get his movie ready.
Check out http://www.thenorthproject.com/ where you can download or stream Marks movie and check out some prints. The page will be updated with film and photos from the exhibition evening.

Some shots from October 15th from The Cleaners.

The first few days in Portland has been great. Mark has showed us around and I got the first look at the prints and they look great.
It’s just a few days left to the exhibition so be ready for more updates soon.

First look at the prints

Phil in action at Cirrus

Haines

American breakfast

Cupcake

Mark

Columbia river

On October 15th I will have a photo exhibition in Portland, OR together with Mark Smith that will show his short movie. The prints and film are from our last few seasons in Haines, Alaska and will be held at “The Cleaners”.
If you want to check it out please let me know.

I went to shoot some golf last week for Sedrun Golf Club. The shoot turned out very good with perfect weather and a lot of good images.

Sedrun Golf Club

I got the cover of Peak Performance Journal with this shot from Engelberg.

I have been slacking with the updates because of vacation but now I’m back in Switzerland again.
I went down to Italy for a few days with 2 friends before I went to Sweden for a month.
Time to start shooting some biking again.
Here are a few shots from the past month.

Hiking with Erik in Engelberg

A few hours car ride from home

Italy

Sea kayaking on the west coast of Sweden

Captain Melle hading to Väderöarna

Swedish summer