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GTS | Get The Shot! I always like seeing the behind the scenes of anything. The making of movies, set of a photo shoot or story behind a picture. Since this is a photographers blog we are going to add a new photo behind the scenes feature called GTS. There is a ton of shit and some type of story that happens behind each and every photo anyone takes. Hopefully here will will try and deliver that behind the scenes story for you.

Vans Cup Superpipe 2008 - Northstar at Tahoe
Contests are always crowed and every one there is trying to get the same banger shot as you. I normally don’t really like to be in the crowd of photographers but I really wanted to get this fisheye shot of Danny Kass on his first hit signature air to fakie. Here are two different views of the mayhem on the deck of the 2008 Vans Cup Superpipe when Danny was dropping for his final run.

- George Croslands view of me trying to get the shot in the mix of the media frenzy. It pretty funny to look at.

- Here was my view. You wouldn’t think that there is a million other people around me and I’m laying in the middle of them. You can barely make out Crosland on the bottom right.

Broke my Pocket wizard the other night. Everything was going great… everybody finished setting up the rail and I just got my lighting all good. While I was walking back to my spot reviewing my photos on my cameras LCD screen I tripped on a ice mound and fell camera first to the frozen concrete. I managed to take most of the blow to my elbow but my camera landed on side of the battery chipping it and my pocket wizard was smashed off the hot shoe….. I really cannot explain the sicking feeling that came over me since my pocket wizard was in pieces my battery was completely chipped. I didn’t even know if my camera still worked or if my 70-200L was cracked at all. Luckily only the pocket wizard was messed up and everything else was just scratched or that would have been a hefty replacement/repair bill. Anyways saved all the broken pieces and the other night I managed to fixed my transmitter… All I need some glue and extra small screw driver. Works like a charm!

-AM

- The night it all went down. I tripped seconds after taking this light test.

-  Pocket Wizard base in pieces.

- The damage. When it broke that night I would flick the tip and it would fire my two flashes. So internally everything still was fine it was just the outer shell case that need to be fixed.

-  Crazy how only half broke off with out cracking or destroying anything inside or the other half.

-  Pocket Wizard under the knife. Popped the broke thread piece back in screwed everything back up.

- Brand Krazy Glue new. Glued the sliver in the bottom and top hot shoe square.

- Good as new… I hope.

-  The test…everything worked.

- The real test that night. Not problems yet!

Check out the large photo galleries from Day 1 & 2 hot off the memory cards of Andrew Miller and George Crosland. Click each photo for that days photo gallery.

This is the sixth installment of the Sunday Sequence program. Enjoy.

Snowrev.com founder John Centi loves riding all terrain; including icy East Coast parks. This is a sequence photo of a boardslide 270 out on an up box at Holiday Valley in Western New York. This shot was taken today Sunday March 2nd after the Shop Wars contest at Holiday where John was representing his shop Suburban Blend.

-Bill Bacon photo

My first Sunday Sequence features Billy Cooley at Rail Institution in New York. This place is one of the sickest rail locations I have ever seen, its comparable to rail gardens in Salt lake City. Rail Institution holds it down for the East Coast and offers plenty of variety in this zone. Bill Cooley is a Snowboard Revolution employee, he is also one of the most solid up and coming snowboarders out there. Hes young, hes tall and he has enough liquid natural flow to fill the Great Lakes. Check him out.

- JOHN CENTI

Big Bill is no marketing gimmic, nothing fake about him, just pure talent. Skateboarding and Snowboarding. Eduaro told me “I want to meet him, he looks very real” Billy gives Ed the thumbs up.

Bill Cooley : Back 5050 frontside 180 out at Rail Institution in New York. Frozen lakes are dope backdrops for photos.

Bill Cooley : Frontside Boardslide, tow in by the Revolution Transport Module. Thanks to Mack Dawg Productions/ Absinthe Films-Mikey LeBlanc for the inspiration on how to properly tow in to rails using the car. Billy is solid as can be.