Photo Shoots with Chase Fromm

More is coming in terms of the story, but I have had the chance to shoot snowboard photos a few days this week with Chase Fromm. He is incredible, considering that he is only 14 years old and landing the tricks he is landing it is really quite remarkable. I took him to do some SLC handrails twice this week and it was his first time ever hitting a handrail, he was sliding smooth fs boardslides with in an hour. Not to mention the bs 3 japan air at Park City. Anyway, here are the photos...





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25 @ PG High

Basically, Dallas and Bronson are awesome and this rail was gnarly. Terry got worked and probably broke his kidney's two landed tricks, a bunch of dead batteries and we were out for hot chocolate. Here are the pictures that worked...



He stopped it so sick, Cody's knee is still messed up so he filmed and there is some good footage.

Cody and Dallas get Sick... first photo sesh of the season

Cody and Dallas are gnarly, there is nothing else to it. They just charge it all the time and give it 100% every time. This time Cody learned about how much pressure he could put on his meniscus before it would tell him to stop. Rock drops to flat at the beginning of the season turned out not to be such a great idea. We had some fun and it was a good day of shooting for the first handrail session of the season.




Dallas, testing the speed on the first hit.

Cody, smoothest fs ONE ever

Cody on the knee blaster hit.

Dallas, back lip what?

New Phaction Skater-Terry Hiatt

Terry Hiatt is hungry. Hungry for powder, for kickers, and sick jib sessions on handrails this winter. He will be riding for Revolution Snowboards. For now, he is just biding his time and getting sick in the American Fork Skate Park.

Surfing, in utah, at night?

Yes, it is true, summer is over. Back to school, back to snow, and send the boat to the back of the garage for the winter. This was the last hurah, and yes we even do it at night.
















Steven Miller was having an epic time as the lights went down. Andrew James felt the shot should be made into a painting, hooray for photo shop filters.














Andy got soooooooo stoked, and pretty much thought he was captain Jack Sparrow.














This is when it got serious, super stoked, lights on the boat and flash photography. Brandon is so sick.














Newly wed, Paul Jolly rides one last wave as the sun sets.

Thanks to everyone who made it happen and who sat in the right side of the boat so we could curb our addiction to waves and pretend like we were in California.

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Thanks, and get ready for SNOW.

Andrew
(By the way, I can help you get a great deal on Park City Passes if you need one.)

Dean Cardinale Photos for National Geographic Adventure Magazine

During the winter of 2003-2004 I was working for the Daily Utah Chronicle and a startup magazine that never started up called Theory Magazine. We decided to do an in depth photo essay on avalanche control and the incredible guys behind it. Any way, I spent two days (days that started at like 4:30am) with the Snowbird Ski Patrol and the avalanche safety coordinator, Dean Cardinale. (For more on Dean check out www.deancardinale.com and www.wwtrek.com) There were a lot of photos, the final essay won some awards with student journalist photographer associations and stuff like that. It was a cool experience and I think there is still more work to be done, but in the last three years Dean has been busy working on his goal to climb the seven summits, the highest point on each continent. National Geographic Adventure Magazine will be doing a story on Dean and there may be a possible trip to Africa next summer to document a climb on Mt. Kilimanjaro. Anyway, below are some of the photos we are considering giving to National Geographic to run, which one do you like best?

Snow...its coming

Last year was a good snowboarding year for us. We were a little short on the actual white stuff but that's ok. I was just getting back into it after a two year hiatus in Brazil. Here is a little look at some of the best talent that I found as I started shooting again. His name is Chase Fromm and he was 13 last season.

bs 540 over the Park City Channel Gap in the Kings Crown Park

Step down bs 180, with sick style for a 13 year old I might add.

Chase has had some great accomplishments over the past year. He progressed a lot from the first day that I saw him and also won the Forum Young Blood competition at Brighton.

Any way, it is time to start getting excited and get ready for the new snow season. We are looking to get some new equipment here at Phaction, new cameras, lenses, maybe some video. We are bringing on a few friends to help with video and post production, check out www.JEXDIGITAL.com. Scott has some sick cameras and is a master editor. We are also looking to get a snowmobile or two, it all depends on the "business department."

As a final note, anyone here in Utah that wants a discounted park city pass for college students, send an e-mail to andrewjamesinc@gmail.com I'll hook you up!