Tangled vines. Endless rain. Dodgy hotel rooms. Mud. Biting flies. Aggressive viruses...Perfection. Is this a vacation? Erik Boomer, Tyler Bradt, Galen Volckhausen, Tim Kemple, Anson Fogel, Blake Hendrix and Skip Armstrong hunt the remote Mexican jungle for the perfect waterfall...and the perfect shot. Paddler and cinematographer alike explore a world beyond the expected. Cascada. From www.forgemotionpictures.com, makers of the award-winning films Of Souls + Water, WildWater and Cold. Presented By NRS www.nrsweb.com Directed by Anson Fogel & Skip Armstrong Music by HECQ and Anson Fogel. Learn more about HECQ and buy his amazing work here: www.hecq.de/ itunes.apple.com/us/artist/hecq/id79947932 Media and Film Festival Inquiries Anson Fogel - anson@forgemotionpictures.com
Forge Motion Pictures and NRS followed paddlers Erik Boomer, Tyler Bradt, and Galen Volckhausen in the jungles of Veracruz, Mexico looking waterfalls .
Crazy. Beautiful.
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Photographer Stephen Orlando creates light paintings, using LED lights and slow shutter speeds, to reveal the motion of paddling and rowing in this series.
Tim Kemple's photography is about authenticity, rawness, passion and place. He doesn't take vacations. He pushes himself and his kit to the limits. Tim explains the lengths he went to on a recent shoot with some of the world's best kayakers in Mexico.
Tim Kemple a renowned action-sports photographer created this video documenting one of his trips to Mexico where he photographed some of the most talented kayakers in the world. He uses the Phase One, 645DF+ with an IQ180 digital back and 28mm lens at a shutter speed of 1/1600th.
My friends would say I like to tinker. Impossible flash syncs, complicated rope work, and razor thin focus planes. The athletes push the limits of their bodies and equipment. I do the same.
Have you ever seen an entire river? This is a 113 day journey down the Green and Colorado Rivers, from source to sea. We started in the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming in October 2011, and finished at the Sea of Cortez, Mexico in January 2012. The river begins as a trickle, carves ever deeper and more spectacular canyons, and is reduced to a trickle again by water diversions. For more information, please visit www.downthecolorado.org CREDITS Edit, Concept, Paddling, Camera- Will Stauffer-Norris (www.willstauffernorris.com) Paddling, Camera- Zak Podmore Original Music- Ed David Watkins (soundcloud.com/edwatkinsmusic) Support provided by The State of the Rockies Project (www.stateoftherockies.com), NRS (www.nrsweb.com), Liquidlogic (www.liquidlogickayaks.com), The Hulbert Center, and Werner
From the mountains of Wyoming to the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, photographers and adventurers Will Stauffer-Norris and Zak Podmore travelled more than 1,700 miles along the Green and Colorado Rivers. Leaving in October of 2011 and arriving in the Sea of Cortez in January of 2012, the two journeyed for 113 days.
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Yeah, these multiple exposures showing the motion are pretty cool.
With the easy and afforable GoPro HD Hero 2 we get to see things we may never have seen before. Here, this flatwater kayaker shows us what it's like to roll underwater and pop back up.
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