First photo in Powder Mag.!!!

Last season I got a call one night around ten. It was Steve Lloyd wanting to know if I was up for doing a 4am night shoot. Without hesitation I said I’d be there. I was on a mission and stoked at any oppertunity to shoot with a photographer that gets as much published as Steve.

So I went right to bed and before I knew it I was turning the alarm clock off and getting all my gear together. The plan was to meet at the top of Little Cottonwood at 4am. That would give us enough time to get to the top of the ridge and set up the shot before it got too light.

It was a beautiful night, with snow falling ever so lightly and still winds. I remember the skin up being so calm and beautiful and the whole time just being in awe that my life choices had lead me to such an incredible place and that I was hiking up a mountain at 4am to go ski and shoot with athletes and a photographer I had looked up to for years.

I guess it is when you feel the most ballanced and your spirit is in such a possitive place, that magic truely happens.

We set up the shot with remote flashes, but with the cold temps and the dead tree in the way the flashers weren’t working right, making only about 1/4 of the shots actually happen.

It just so happened that on my turn the flashers went as planned and my body was in the right position. The minuit Lloyd took the shot he said it was a winner! I knew that if Steve was saying it was it good it must have been.

Since that evening there have been different percentages that Steve has given me for the probability that the shot would make it into Powder, but I never counted on it being a sure thing…. Well, until I got the Powder Photo Annual on Monday and saw it for myself.

Photo: Steve Lloyd