Late last fall, I took off to Vancouver Island to try to document what the lifestyle for the surfers out there is like. Jamie Tanner was my guide and pretty much the most extreme dude I’ve ever met.  There are a bunch of shots in Mountains II which I feel really show the difficulty it takes to even get to the water. Here are some that didn’t get used. The last two photos are from my closest brush with death. We swam out to the island in the second last photo, then Jamie jumped off of it into the complete mess of the water trying to get one more wave in on my last day. If you look in the top-left area of the last shot, you can see a black dot which is him. From there, I had to jump off a swim back to shore with my camera. Unfortunately, I got caught in a rip-tide. Twenty or so minutes later, I was swimming the same spot, getting hit by waves and losing energy. Thankfully Jamie came back out, put himself in a risky spot and gave me the help I needed to stay alive.

If you need me, I’m out on a shoot, then another, then another, etc.  Detail shot added after the jump!

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The Reason have a new album out called Fools. I’ve been listening to it for a while and fully recommend you go pick it up. We also did some video stuff on their back porch after taking this photo and I’ll try to get that done and up real soon.

Here are a couple shots of The Brilliance I shot this month.

On the way to a shoot, we got stuck a liftbridge letting the longest boats I’ve ever seen through so we got out of our cars and made the best of it.

A little special 200th post update. Here is a shot from a series I have been working on and will keep doing so for as long as I need to. I’m thinking it’ll be a good for Mountains III which I’m in no rush to get done as I’m trying to make it the absolute best offering I can for you. If you haven’t already please pick up Mountains I and/or II!

Buy this album.  Here is the itunes link.

A quick note to everyone that was involved in or came out to the Moutains launch last week - Thanks so much! It was a perfect evening! I have some video that I took through the night that I’ll try to edit soon. If you haven’t picked up a copy yet, please go to our site and do so - www.mountainsarecalling.com

In completely other news, here are some photos from a rainy afternoon at Indian fashion icon James Ferreira’s house in Mumbai.

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So the time has come! Mountains 2 is officially being launched.  A bunch of issues have slowly been leaking out but it is legit now! If you’re in the Toronto area, please come out. Here is all the info:

FRIDAY, 30 JULY 2010

FUNCTION 13
156 AUGUSTA AVE
TORONTO, ON

7 PM - 11 PM

Gallery featuring photography & art from:

Brooks Reynolds - www.brooksreynolds.com
Sylvia Waliczek - currently on display at function 13
Tod Ainslie - featured in mountains II
Ryan MacDonald - www.shoutymouths.com
Jess Baumung - www.jessbaumung.com
Jackie Musial - justbearwithme.blogspot.com
Erin McPhee - mcpheee.blogspot.com
Casey Shea - musician gone artist

And the music of EVERLEA & SAN SEBASTIAN

Click HERE for the facebook event page (if that is your thing).

I’m stealing this image from Jackie’s blog, it is a teaser of what she is bring to the show!

A little video experiment shot late at night with Everlea and a sample of one of their new songs.