MIGROS SportXX, Imagekampagne

Die Wahl haben, dem Alltag zu entfliehen. Die diesjährige Imagekampagne für Outdoor SportXX spielt dezent mit Bildern im Kopf und will zeigen, wie atemberaubend unsere Natur ist und wie schön es ist, draussen zu sein (Agentur: Inahlt & Form).

Aufgenommen mit der Leica S2P, dem HCD 28mm (Saoseo) und HC 50mm (Alp Mora).

migros sport xx

Temporary Alpine Shelters

The Matterhorn Base Camp

The base camp to serve as a ‘temporary Alpine shelter’ erected on the Hirli at 2,880 metres above sea level (coordinates 619.500 / 093.100). At a level of 400 metres beneath the Hörnlihütte, we have constructed a campus able to accommodate 50 mountaineers to ensure that, even during the modernisation of the Hörnlihütte in the summer of 2014, you will continue to enjoy excellent access to the Matterhorn.

In arriving at the design for the Matterhorn Base Camp, the overriding premise was “Reduce, Reduce, Recycle”. During implementation this amounted to an A-Z focus on the needs of our guests, guaranteeing the smooth functioning of the facility and, in particular, a detailed analysis of how to best dismantle and further use the lodges. The Flims-based architects Selina Walder and Georg Nickisch received the commission to design the Matterhorn Base Camp.

Temporary Alpine Shelters

Covers

Covershots of the Design Hotel directions and Jack Wolfskin Tends.

next location

great drive to my next photo location !

TREK Powerfly+

I had two great shooting days for the new “Trek Powerfly+” advertisement.

All shots are taken with a Canon 1 DX., 16-35 mm, 50 mm and 70-200 mm lenses. For fast flash i used the Elinchrome RX, S-head and PW TT1.

TREK Powerfly

77° 50′ N, 19° 50′ E

I met up with great friends Abrie and Ryan in Oslo. It was towards the end of winter in 2013 and we had another four hours of plane flying in front of us. We were heading to Svalbard and were chuffed that, once again, we could reconnect in such a fantastic location following our last adventures in Lombok and Kyrgystan.

Everything we had was packed in Jack Wolfskin duffle bags ready to go on sleds, including a gun to scare off polar bears. Quite a daunting thought knowing we were sharing the frozen wilderness with a known population of about 3000 bears and our tents wouldn’t put them off much, nor our rickety electric fence that blew over as soon as a gust of wind hit it. We could only hope there was an abundance of seals and other wild life on their food list before us.

Aside from these more primal fears remote area photography always has me a bit nervous about my gear. Would it cope with the humidity, the dust, the ice, the wind chill or constant rattling of travel and being dropped and knocked accidentally? Further and above all, could I carry it over longer stretches of inhospitable terrain such as on this assignment? No good having to empty out the guts of one’s luggage to get to the lenses. For this journey I opted for the Canon 16 – 35mm f2.8, 50mm f1.2 and 70 – 200mm f2.8 L-Series lenses. My main ‘workhorse’ was the Canon 1 DX with a trusty 5D MkII as a light weight second body. All images were backed up religiously ‘on location’ onto Hyperdrives.