Ron Shoots

In the last post, I mentioned something about our shoots being more an adventure than a job… today we went on the high road to adventure with a snowmobiling shoot in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Working with Nova Guides about 45 minutes outside of Vail, we had 5 snowmobiles, 2 models, 3 crew and a guide. And a beautiful day with blue skies, pleasant temperatures and no wind!

(Above: Krista, Luke, Ron, and Ryan & Jamie, our models.)

In the valley, each of us got set-up on our own snowmobiles. Travis, our guide gave us the safety briefing on snowmobiles, then off we went on beautiful forest trails to above tree line. The mountain top was about 12,500 ft with a 360 degree panorama- we could shoot in any direction!

We took minimal equipment, just the camera bag with a Canon and a Hasselblad. And Luke, our assistant, wore a backpack with the Quantum flash. We strapped the camera bag to the back of the guide’s snowmobile for a quite bouncy ride to each location. At one point, the bag was hanging halfway off dragging along in the snow at 30mph!