GET TO THE CHOPPER!

G’day readers! so i finally have a decent blog for you this time, and it’s all to do with helicopters!

Wednesday rolls around, it’s a perfect bluebird day and i spend my morning chilling out and getting my edit on. After a few hours of getting square eyes and sorting through a few hundred photos i suited up, grabbed my cameras and my board and met up with Chris Hocking my media partner in crime to head off up the mountain to the heli pad.

After a chat to the pilot and a rock paper scissors between Chris and i to see who would be sitting in the open door of the chopper and who would be in the seat next to him. With a solid ‘scissors’ Chris slaps on the harness and i strapped the lap sash seat belt (yeah,,,, lap sash,, no harness) and we took off with the door open, at this time i remember heights and i aren’t the best of friends so i put camera to eye and started shooting, it’s amazing how much you can detach yourself from life when your looking through a whole bunch of glass!

After take off we did a run up the falls creek road to get some footage of the entrance and the new st falls complex, we then banked over the top of ski school to show how good the snow cover is for spring and also show off our new ski school magic carpets

We booted over to ruined castle where the guys and girls of falls were waiting up the top of the park (it’s small but check em all out waving and junk and Jerome lounging back)

Here’s my boy Jez Burns hitting the first booter in the park

After a couple of laps of the park we headed over to Mt Makay where Steve Lee and his team were waiting up the top with their back country sled setup, after a lap the crew headed down the mountain face, for spring time the snow is amazing, untouched snow and really nice to ride on

After a fly over the pilot banked around to get us more shots of the end of Steve’s run, at a 90 degree angle and with an open door on the chopper G forces are the only thing holding you in! Chris’ harness was there in case he fell and wasn’t holding him in,, pretty full on, but super fun!

These are just a few of the photos, the rest are being used by Falls Creek to promote my home mountain, keep an eye on the media

thanks for reading guys and keep an eye on this blog, i’ll have a small one soon of a small shoot Jez Burns that i did on the same day

Matty

Editing time!

So finally things have calmed down a bit, it’s stopped snowing and the clouds have covered the sun, so i’m gluing myself to the computer sorting through and editing a heap of images from the past few weeks, getting shots off to riders for their sponsors, companies and their mums!

Here’s a sequence i did this morning of local boy Jez Burns (also owner of radical gloves) www.radicalgloves.com

unfortunately no image looks good this small but you get the idea

Matty

Published and Massive booters!

So today was good, went out and got some shots of my boys on the Stylewars booters, i’ve still got to edit the images but once they are edited i’ll put a couple up, but until then here is some more pics i got in todays border mail, page 3, three pics of the hoppet

Matt ‘Hunt’ photography…..

Got an image in the Herald Sun today, of Mr Matty Myhill sending it off cabbage patch rock up on summit and a small image of the lower slalom carpark, unfortunately my photo credit was ‘Matt Hunt’ ahhh can’t win em’ all!

In other news i spent the morning shooting Russ Henshaw and Johnny Lipzker on the stylewars jumps that are still around from last week, also had my boys Jez Burns, Maty Galina, Mato Smith and Rueben hitting the jump, 20Gig of photos to sort through, i’ll let you guys know the results!

Matty

A couple more spots in the media

Got a couple more pics going on, a little one in the herald (big one was by charlie brown – go team media!) and front cover of the local ‘this week’ falls creek magazine

Throthin the bean!

so to explain the subject of this post, we did some shots off a big drop yesterday, one of the local riders Aussie Toner, in an effort to pump himself up started yelling ‘THROTHIN! THROTHIN THE BEAN!’ gold,, i could hardly hold the camera still from laughter

So today was EPIC!, 54cm overnight on top of what we had last night, this is the storm of a decade and the boys and i went out shooting in it! , i can’t release the pics yet until the papers and media decide what they want, but here is a little taster of how good the snow was today, Matty Myhill smashing through the soft stuff

keep checking back!

Matty

Herald Sun 23rd August

Got a big picture in the Herald sun today, pic is of Sam Perry, unfortunately they tagged it as Mac Taylor! sorry Sammy!