[January 2007]
My long time client Sportresor asked me to go to Verbier for their annual "Advanced Ski Week", an event with two well known Swedish free riders, Magnus "Slange" Loo and Sara Orrensjö. Snow was sparse and we spent the first three days skiing the pistes in shitty weather conditions. Then it started dumping. So eventually we got a few days of decent skiing.
Air to Air Shoot in San Diego, USA
[October and November 2006]
I was lucky to get an assignment for Ericsson again. This turned out to be very difficult, probably the most difficult one I have ever had during my career. All in all,during two trips, I spent eight days shooting a Stemme, a super hightech glider from a Cessna and a helicopter. What made it so difficult, was that I had to shoot it in specific angles against very specific backgrounds, which our AD had found on Google Earth. What he didn´t count on, was, that San Diego has five big airports which all have individual restricted airspaces. The first day shooting, I lost a lens from the Cessna at 3300 feet. Luckily it didn´t hit any one and I managed to buy a new one the same day. The biggest problem was communication between the two pilots and myself. Standing on the landing skid of the helicopter I could just forget using the intercom. It was to windy to keep it on my head so I had to use handsigns and shouts to make myself understood to the pilot. It took us a few days to work this out before the shooting went smooth. Working two two-hour shifts a day was real tough and by the end of each shift we were totally wasted. Standing on the skids in speeds of 80 - 100 m/h wears you out quickly.
Skatepark in Durban, South Africa
[2007-11-01]
December 2006 The week before Christmas 2006 I went to South Africa for Ericsson again. We spent five days in Durban shooting skateboarding, inlines and BMX in a huge skatepark. We hired around 15 professional riders, five in each discipline and worked through our story board from early morning until dark in order to finish the job before Christmas. The first two days were spent planning the shoot and doing the casting as a tropical storm outside made it impossible to do anything. Thanks to our local production team from 2Productions and the fantastic models, we were able to work very efficiently during the remaining days.
