NIGHT SHRED JAPAN

Just came across these shots from a trip to Japan in March 2010. Lot's of driving around to find good snow, everyone was exhausted - but still all of us were up for a fun night shred the night we checked in at a hotel located right next to the slopes. Good spirit, good crew!

click the 'read more' below to see all the shots...

BILLABONG :: WOLLE :: ABSINTHE

Collabo! This is one of the coolest collaborations you can find in Snowboarding - Wolle Nyvelt with his Äsmo boards, legendary Absinthe Films and Billabong. They've all been working on some really nice pieces. Here're some shots, more to come once this is released, this is all 2013/14 gear. Can't wait to get my hands on some pieces.

DAILY BUSINESS

The news from Japan are unbelievable. My thoughts are with the Japanse.

Japan is a great country with great people. We had a really good time on every single trip there. This year we had amazing snowconditions, a lot of bad weather days though and a one of a kind bluebird day. We went snowboarding on every day since our arrival and don't get me wrong, it's not boring at all, but you'll develop some routines being on the same schedule each day. And this is how our days mostly looked like.

hiking, hiking, hiking. Lot of work goes into making it look effortless

a little backside air in the morning to get in the right mood for the day

deep snow, sprayed faces

back at the hotel, drying clothes and camera gear, doing some reading

get into the supplied socks, slippers and ninja suit and hit the spa

Asahidake bluebird. White smoke is in full effekt. Ready for some action on the Vulcano.

Stop. Turn.

Fresh snow, sun is shining, dropping cliffs.

WINTER IS IN TOWN

I'll keep it short with this post, but since everybody is blogging in 2010 you can get a full 360° iPhone view on this trip on these guys blogs: Alex Schiller, Peter König and Tom Klocker.

We went to east germany to shoot some urban snowboarding. The new: a winch and a bungee rope opened up new spot possibilities. The old: the police sent us away quite a few times. And that's actually getting really old. It's funny how one activity is "allowed" and another isn't, reminded me of this brilliant clip by Nike, check it out here.

bungee

preparing the in-run with the winch

first try Klocker

the talented Mr. Schiller

pain + checking shots (in pain)

and even signing autographs, hey!

NEW WORK ONLINE

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I added a new section to my portfolio website christianbrecheis.com called Summer & Surf. A mix of windsurf and surf action shots together with some lifestyle. Additionally I updated a few photos here and there in the other galleries.

Auf meiner Webseite christianbrecheis.com gibt's ein paar neue Bilder zu sehen. Neu hinzugekommen ist Summer & Surf, ein Mix aus Windsurf und Surf Action Photos sowie Lifestyle. Außerdem sind in fast allen anderen Kategorien neue Arbeiten zu finden. Viel Spaß beim Durchschauen!

ONLINE - PLEASURE, HEAD & ORTOVOX

Just recently Pleasure Magazine, Ortovox and HEAD Snowboards have re-launched their websites. I'm happy to link to all of their sites here on the blog. Not only can you find many of my photos on each of the sites, they all provide a lot of content that is really worth checking out.

ridehead.com

ortovox.com

pleasuremag.com

Pipe Trip pt. 3 // THE MINI MAKING-OF

Nach Olympia und endlos vielen Wettkämpfen sind wir im April losgezogen um Halfpipe Snowboarden zu fotografieren und filmen wie es Spaß macht und man es gerne sieht. Abseits der Tricks und Bewertungspunkte. Es ging für uns in etwas über einer Woche durch mehrere Staaten zu den besten Pipes der USA.

Fotos habe ich schon vor einiger Zeit hier und hier gepostet, jetzt habe ich noch einen Videoedit mit ein paar Erklärungen von mir, wie sich der Shoot zusammengesetzt hat. (Beat: Sepalot) Das komplette Video sollte man nicht verpassen, dass gibt's hier.

snowboard halfpipe shoot mini-making-of from Christian Brecheis on Vimeo.

NORWAY SUNSET SHOOT

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Finally, on the last day of our stay in Folgefonna we've had a sunset shoot. From 11PM to close to midnight, the light got epic. The sky was bleeding.

I can't post all the goodies from that session yet. Here's a glimpse of what it looked like:

Tom Klocker

Féfé Pellacani

this is the parking lot right at the lift and the shapers storage. props to those guys.

Erst am letzten Abend hatten wir endlich unsere Sonnenuntergangs-Session. Gegen 23 Uhr wurde der Himmel blutrot, unglaublich. Ich kann noch nicht allzuviel von diesem Shoot posten, hier zumindest ein erster Eindruck.

Munich Snow

The first half of January had it all - 4am wake up calls to shooting until 4am, backcountry hiking to urban jibs. As for the urban stuff I tagged along with Marco Smolla and Fips Strauss to shoot trademark buildings and other fun stuff in downtown Munich for Red Bull. Check out Marco's blog and this clip by Vince (Isenseven).

German readers, go to Snowforce for a online article about this shoot.

Auf Snowforce gibt es einen Online-Artikel mit noch mehr Bildern.

Arosa Pipe

While the European Open finals were in full swing in Laax I needed to head over to Arosa, which is close by, to shoot a "Tool Time" article for Pleasure Mag with Mario Käppeli. Right above our jump was the pipe and the sun set beautifully right in the center of it.


While the issue featuring the Arosa shoot won't come out until March, Pleasure #84 just hit newsstands with another set of photos that I shot in Laax back in December: Portraits of Ethan Morgan for his interview, get a preview at the Forum Snowboard Blog or grab a copy.

Travel Blog - Mammoth

On the road, traveling... Late season trip to shoot some more snowboarding. I'm in Mammoth Lakes, California with Christophe Schmidt and David Selbach. Here's some random travel photos of what's been going on so far:

Obligatory stop for each euro crew. The In-N-Out Burger.

from top left to bottom right: sunshine and palm tree cup. Getting lost in the desert, no joke. The flag at the pipe in Mammoth, it was really windy. Desert, a single tree.

People on the mountain dress funky and try hard to look cool (check out this btw.). But what about this dog? How cool is that? Just checking out what's going on in the hood from the balcony. (click to enlarge)

Thanks to David for this shot. Christophe is riding, I'm pushing the button.

What's next? I'll be showing some photos at the Still Life with Snow photo exhibit here in Mammoth on the 2nd of May. Since we already had powder, slush, too little vert in the pipe walls; we're hoping to get good conditions to finish up for what we came for, getting some pipe shots.

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some snapshots from the exhibit

A really nice event was going down in Munich this weekend, the first annual snowboard film festival (and at the same time a little trade show). Hans Herbig and I showed snowboard photographs at the venue which turned out quite nice. Check out some snapshots here on the right.
Trade show was cool, great brands, resorts and shops. The party was killer: DJ Stylewarz, Soulforce and a rap freestyle session with Roger & Schu (Blumentopf) and Roger Rekless.
The best part was watching snowboard movies on a giat IMAX screen. Three days in a row, from early afternoon till almost midnight you could watch classics like Afterbang or Simple Pleasure as well as bangers like That's It That's All and even both of this years Isenseven movies.

Roger on the mic at the festival party