AVIVIDEYE http://avivideye.com a diverse, multimedia journal Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:23:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 NYC: moving quickly http://avivideye.com/2013/03/nyc-moving-quickly/ http://avivideye.com/2013/03/nyc-moving-quickly/#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:21:51 +0000 david http://avivideye.com/?p=894 Working in NYC plugs me in. The practice of allowing myself to be swallowed up in mass humanity provides a necessary perspective shift, when considering sustainability and conservation projects in the Greater Yellowstone. I returned with more questions then when I left. In many ways, these two paradoxical places have become relative examples in modern climate issues, due to the dying whitebark pine forests throughout the Yellowstone high country and the extreme weather affecting the low lying populations of the NYC area.

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skier: Jessica Baker

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“Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.” -John Muir

These images constitute a dream realized; my first trip to Alaska and an effort to go get small in a very big place . . . A true exploration to a place of mindblowing beauty by ski touring out of a high base camp for nine days with a ride in and and a ride out on a helicopter.

To see more images in full screen, click HERE

Thanks to Sam Petri, Brennan Lagasse, Jeff Dostie, and Jessica and Kevin Quinn of Points North Heli in Cordova, AK.
Ski Touring and Camping in the Chugach Mountains near Cordova, Alaska. Ski Touring and Camping in the Chugach Mountains near Cordova, Alaska. Ski Touring and Camping in the Chugach Mountains near Cordova, Alaska. Ski Touring and Camping in the Chugach Mountains near Cordova, Alaska. Ski Touring and Camping in the Chugach Mountains near Cordova, Alaska. Ski Touring and Camping in the Chugach Mountains near Cordova, Alaska. Ski Touring and Camping in the Chugach Mountains near Cordova, Alaska. Ski Touring and Camping in the Chugach Mountains near Cordova, Alaska. Ski Touring and Camping in the Chugach Mountains near Cordova, Alaska. Ski Touring and Camping in the Chugach Mountains near Cordova, Alaska. Ski Touring and Camping in the Chugach Mountains near Cordova, Alaska. Ski Touring and Camping in the Chugach Mountains near Cordova, Alaska.

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Grand Teton National Park, Moran, Wyoming (photo © David Stubbs) National Elk Refuge, Jackson, Wyoming (photo © David Stubbs) Snake River, Jackson, Wyoming (photo © David Stubbs)

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After half a dozen trips and almost twenty years, there is still no city I love more. This is a one-minute short shot with one of my oldest and closest friends Tomas. He is obsessed with tango. Tomas embodies everything I love about his home city . . .

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For a moment, when the spot fires reached the ridge of Cache Creek, with gusty winds blowing down canyon toward town, things felt eerily fragile, as if our isolated paradise might join the destruction that much of the world endures. The next day, I woke on my birthday, September 10, to a cold, hard rain. The ridge was held, and we somehow continued to manage our good fortune.

While compiling an edit of images that reflects a year as a working photographer in Jackson, Wyoming (omitting travel assignments), I thought I might come closer to a short answer to the question that I am asked the most: so what do you shoot? (oh no, not again.)

The truth is, if I had a short answer to this question, I would probably not still be working as a full-time freelance photographer after over a decade. From adventure to news, to commercial, portraiture and landscape: the world is what I shoot, I guess. It is all connected in its subtlety and unyielding paradoxes. I am just fortunate enough to spend my life staring at it, hoping it will inspire people to think . . . and feel.

Many thanks to my clients, subjects, friends and family . . . the meander continues . . .
A powerful summer storm blows over the National Elk Refuge, in what would prove to be one of the last rain storms of the summer. Photo © David Stubbs 2012s over the National Elk Refuge, in what would prove to be one of the last rain storms of the summer. Photo © David Stubbs 2012 The Horsethief Canyon Fire burns through the night, with spot fires threatening Cache Creek and East Jackson. Photo © David Stubbs 2012 Climbing Irene's Arete in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.(for Exum) Photo © David Stubbs 2012 American ski mountaineering pioneer Bill Briggs with his trusty banjo in Grand Teton National Park. (for the Town of Jackson) Photo © David Stubbs 2012 Skiing the Apocalypse Coulior in Grand Teton National Park. (for Exum)Photo © David Stubbs 2012 Jackson Lake at night in Grand Teton National ParkPhoto © David Stubbs 2012 Modern architecture under the stars in East Jackson.Photo © David Stubbs 2012 Jackson native singer, actress and cowgirl Jessica Garnick (for the Sibbett Group) Photo © David Stubbs 2012 Fog breaks over the peaking Cottonwoods on the Snake River.Photo © David Stubbs 2012 Cosmetic scientist and fashion aficionado Melanie Simon and Christian Conservative political activist Foster Friess. (for Le Monde) Photo © David Stubbs 2012 Dick Cheney on the set of the film The World According to Dick Cheney, shot in Jackson. (for Showtime) Photo © David Stubbs 2012 Ben Bernanke listens to the head of the Israel central bank at Jackson Lake Lodge during the annual financial meeting. (for Reuters) Photo © David Stubbs 2012 Two climbers traverse the bottom of Mt. Owen's east snowfield during a one day Cathedral Traverse of Mt. Teewinot, Mt. Owen and the Grand Teton. (for Exum) Photo © David Stubbs 2012 Mike Poborsky climbs the Italian Cracks on the north side of the Grand Teton, while a huge plume erupts from a forest fire in the Teton Wilderness to the northeast. (for Exum) Photo © David Stubbs 2012 "Creepy Creek" a favorite spot in Yellowstone National Park.Photo © David Stubbs 2012 Meanders in the Snake River appear as stranded pools during peak color in Grand Teton National Park. Photo © David Stubbs 2012

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Drew Pogge skies into Death Canyon in Grand Teton National Park. Brenton Reagan rappels into the Apocalypse coulior in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Brenton Reagan climbs into a cave in the Apocalypse Coulior in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Drew Pogge sideslips the ice bulge choke in the Apocalypse Coulior in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Drew Pogge skies into Death Canyon in Grand Teton National Park.

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