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March Snow In Tahoe

Ben Birk — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:50:57 +0000

I peeped threw my blinds today and saw snow tumbling down to the ground. What a great way to start off the month.

EastCoast Snowboarding Magazine January 2010

Ben Birk — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:15:16 +0000

We had the new ECS arrive at the house last week and inside were two new double pages. First up was Kyle Ryan with large chicken salad grab drop shot at Northstar in California for his Rookie Card. The next image was of Mike Bennett from the 15 inches of snow in Pennsylvania during December. This was the only rail we hit during the two weeks we had snow on the ground. Both riders are good friends and both are kids who deserve to have content of them ran. Big congrats guys.

Tahoe Photo

Ben Birk — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:18:43 +0000

Will Bateman and myself rode Alpine Meadows yesterday and I got worked so I took today to catch up on work.

PA-CA 2010

Ben Birk — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:31:01 +0000

Justin and myself made our trip from Harrisburg Pennsylvania to Tahoe California last week for the second year in the row.

I shot photos along the trip on the LX3, which you can view in this flickr slideshow.

Justin also made a video edit from our trip.

7 Springs Resort Pennsylvania

Ben Birk — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:45:12 +0000

Over the weekend Doug Usko, Mike Bennett, Jesse Stoneburger and myself went to 7 Springs Resort to shoot their halfpipe on opening day. I decided to film a bunch of our trip with my new Panasonic LX3, and here is the video result. It is a lot of fun filming with this camera and I hope to make edits like this during the rest of my trips this year.

7 Springs Pennsylvania from Ben Birk on Vimeo.

New Buys: Film Film Film

Ben Birk — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:27:49 +0000

I bought a little bit of film for this year. I hope to have gone threw all of this stock by February.

New Buys: Hasselblad 40mm & NC2 Prism

Ben Birk — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:53:03 +0000

Over christmas I received a used Canon 35mm camera from KEH.com and was so impressed with the camera that I decided to go back to them when I wanted to purchase some new Hasselblad gear. After a few conversations with Sam Muller and Tim Z I decided to go with the Hasselblad 40mm over the 50mm. I picked the 40mm because its wider, tack sharp, and has very low distortion with the only negative being the lens is HUGE. It’s as long as my hand and the lens is larger then my palm. My main intention with the lens is to shoot portraits and not action. I also picked up a NC2 prism to try out.

New Buys: Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3

Ben Birk — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:07:15 +0000

I bought some new gear for this winter. Today arrived my first of three items and inside it was a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3. I have never owned a point and shoot camera, so deciding which camera to buy and education myself on P&S technology was a task. I knew I wanted video capabilities, low f-stop, sharp lens, and the ability to shoot in RAW. The LX3 had all of my needs by supplying 1280 x 720 @ 24fps video shooting, a f/2.0-2.8 Leica DC Vario-Summicron Lens, and RAW shooting capabilities. I have to wait for my memory card which I ordered from another online dealer but once it arrives I will have some shots to upload.

Stowe, Vermont

Ben Birk — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:12:08 +0000

I left on wednesday morning for Stowe, Vermont with Justin Mullen and Mike Bennett. We stayed at the house of Stowe guide Pat Walsh. We rode off resort for two days and on resort for two days before leaving on Monday. We were blessed with some fresh snow each day. Here are some videos from the trip that Justin made. Don’t forget to check out my 8 powder turns at 2:19 in the second video.

Drive up and first day.

Day 2 & 3

VT Trip2 from justin mullen on Vimeo.

Interview

Ben Birk — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:48:00 +0000

Laura Austin interviewed me for Rad Collector. Take a minute to read the interview here.