I’m stoked to take the cover shot of Andy Nudds and there’s a double page of my shot of Katie Ormerod at Halifax in there too.

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It’s 2012 and I’ve set myself a couple of new years resolutions. I don’t do negative resolutions, i.e. I’m not going to eat cake, I tend to challenge myself to do things. So, this year I’ve made two resolutions:

1. Take more and better photographs – I’ve kind of fallen off the photography wagon recently. I’m not sure how but it has been a while since I’ve produced anything meaningful. That is going to change this year. I have a notebook full of ideas and at least one project to complete so I have plenty to go at! I’m working on making the time to actual press the shutter release and also to read around so I can make more informed and meaningful photographs. I’m also going to try to share the process and the photographs on here a bit more.
2. Get better at snowboarding – Not photography related (other than when I shoot snowboarding) but important for my personal development. I’ve now been snowboarding for over 10 years; 10 years ago tomorrow I got on a plane to Canada to spend the season snowboarding. I improved for 8 of those years but for the last couple of years I’ve just been coasting along. So this year I’m going to be a better rider and learn some more tricks.  I have a day of coaching coming up this Sunday with Maverix at Castleford so I’m already on it!

In other news that is exciting to me, I have just bought a Canon 7D. After the trauma of trying to afford my last DSLR upgrade 3 years ago I started putting £25 a month aside for the next upgrade. So, 38 months later and after a careful review of January sales, I managed to acquire a new body. I was tempted to go full frame with the 5D MKII but it’s getting on for 3 1/2 years old, the focusing is better for action sports on the 7D (film is my medium for the arty stuff) and I have some EF-S glass that won’t work full frame -  making the whole thing roughly twice as expensive when factoring in replacements. Anyway, gear geekery aside, I can’t wait to see what I can get out of the thing! This will definitely help with resolution 1.

Another blog post to follow immediately with something else cool.

The snowboard season is kicking off again so hopefully I’ll have a bit more on that front coming up.

Catch you soon.

Exciting things have been happening lately (including the new website) so I’ll do a proper little update soon.

If there’s anything not working on here then let me know, I’m still ironing out the bugs!

Charlie