wsc... holmenkollen

One of the many things that separated the WSC 2012 from other contests was the quarter pipe built under the instruction of Terje Haakonsen at the bottom of the famous Holmenkollen ski jump...

The stadium atmosphere on the night of the quarter pipe finals was out of this world, but equally moody was the foggy practice session I witnessed the day before... It's a pretty special place and it was amazing to watch Terje and the rest of the guys testing the water and pushing the limits without the cheering masses... Snowboarding for real...

Alek Ostreng ready to drop...

Architectural awesomeness...

Backside boosting...

Jack Mitrani going big...

Terje...

Showing classic form...

wsc 2012... nate johnstone...

While covering WSC 2012, I had the opportunity to meet, and shoot with, one of Australia's biggest snowboarding talents, Mr Nate Johnstone. Riding all the way from the early qualifying rounds, Nate ended up in 5th place, a respectable effort considering the quality of the field. He definitely impressed a lot of people, going huge throughout the event and saved his best till last, putting down a double cork 10 on the last hit of his final run... Though I haven't seen either, both Australian Snowboarding and Mens Fitness ran one of my shots of Nate following the his performance... Here's some of my favourites from the 10 days of riding...

Good luck for the coming northern winter Nate!

Taking flight in the afternoon light...

All smiles...

Big backside 9 on finals night...

Up there with the best of them...

Double corking in the finals...

wsc 2012... favourites in the park...

Here's a few of my favourite pics from the slopestyle course... No real need for words... Hope y'all enjoy!

Halldor Helgason - 50-50 backflip double nosegrab... aka the cat flip...

Chas Guldemond - method for the media...

Mark McMorris - method...

Halldor Helgason - Lobster flip

wsc 2012... pipe dreams...

Here's a few favourites from hiking the pipe...

Seamus O'Connor - frontside 9 double tail grab

Peetu Pirronen - frontside 7 while old mate gets a selfie

Freddie Austbo - alley oop frontside 3 for the hordes below

Kelly Clark - stylish frontside air on the way to victory

Christian Haller - double corking in the finals

wsc 2012... set the scene...

It was a buzz cruising the contest site and there always seemed to be something happening... 

Colourful bunch those board companies...

Shaping the half milli halfpipe...

The slopestyle course from afar...

Rider chillout zone...

Workin hard, not hardly workin...

Looks straight to me...

Just a couple of random guys on the t-bar...

Peetu went big as always... Maybe too big...

world snowboarding championships for reason...

In February earlier this year, the first ever World Snowboarding Championships were held in Oslo, Norway and I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to check out the event, while shooting some photos and scribing some words for Reason, a British snowboarding magazine...

The feature appeared in their first magazine of the season, issue 4.1, and had a good mix of photos from the event, focused mostly on the British team and the winners of the various divisions...

With the worlds best riders cruising in Oslo for almost two weeks, there was such an incredible amount of epic riding going on. So over the next few posts, I'm going to post some of my favourites from the trip... I hope y'all enjoy! 

Big love to Reason for their support and to brothers Steemo, Rick and Adam for their generosity and hospitality during my time in Norway! Roll on winter 2013!

 Reason 4.1...

 Opening spread... Dropping!

 Billy Morgan and Ben Kilner get the morph treatment...

 Terje Haakonsen a mere 7.7m above the quarterpipe...

Chas Gueldemond twists up mega method on his way to victory in the slopestyle...