Matthew Botos

Shooting lots of snowboarding and skiing action in Banff this year provided plenty of frames for this video (click the HD icon for full resolution):

Banff Snowboarding and Skiing from Matthew Botos on Vimeo.

Actually producing this gave me a lot of respect for the effort that goes into videos versus photography; the difficulty increases at least an order of magnitude. I really liked the pauses in Chase Jarvis’s Pray for Snow, and set out to imitate the effect with my own series of bash scripts that sequence still images and letterbox them. Titles and assembly were done in iMovie HD, with a Creative Commons soundtrack from Jamendo.

My first photo show opened at Earth Mart in Phoenixville Friday night to a great crowd - thanks everyone for coming out! It was a blast talking to everyone who stopped by, and store owner Lisa came up with some great arrangements for the photos. My dad was there early to help setup, and he and Denis Brenan provided many photos of the opening.

You can see the show at Earth Mart through March 31, or preview and order from the collection here.