Photo of the Day 3/17/12, Happy St. Patrick's Day

Enjoy a drink today in honor and celebration of St. Patrick expelling all the snakes out of Ireland. Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Photo of the Day 3/16/12, Venice, Italy

Photo of the Day 3/16/12, Venice, Italy

After a 2 week ski journey thru the Northern Italy Dolomites, 4 of us were going to be flying out of Venice back to the states. We stayed the night outside Venice, got up early and travelled into Venice to walk/photograph the streets of Venice. This photograph is very unsusual do the fact that there is no person in it. Venice is busy, busy, busy, it wasn't more than 2 seconds later that this alley was full of people. This photograph can also be found in the Limited Editions Architecture gallery on my website.

http://www.gurryphoto.com/LimitedEdition/Architecture/15959020_VdZZb2#!i=1349095372&k=vPNvgjR

Photo of the Day 3/15/12, Ben Johnson skiing chute in the backcountry of Snowbird, UT

In March of 2008 Ben Johnson was seriously injured in a Big Mountain competition. I happen to be the next competitor at the top of the mountain who was about to ski at the time of the injury. Essentially he had broken his spine but was able to retain function of his lower body. After an obviously intensive recovery, this photograph was taken almost a year to the date of his injury. I remember clearly Ben saying at some part of the day that can't do everything he wants to cause he has a metal rod holding his back together right now. So we ended up skiing a chute that neither of us had yet to ski in the backcountry of Snowbird. It was difficult to get to, very steep, and had a middle section that you needed to stepped over...all meaning there is no such thing as falling here. I thought to myself and the end of the chute, "what exactly can't you do Ben?"

Photo of the Day 3/14/12

Homer, Alaska is the one of the fishing capitals of the world. This photograph was taken off the end of the Homer spit at sunset in the spring.

New Photo of the Day 3/13/12, Phillip skiing Rae Wallace Chutes

Recently Hatchers Pass, AK has been skiing amazing. This photo shows just deep the snow it has been.

New Photo of the Day 3/12/12, Fireworks in Petersville.

This photo was taken in Petersville, AK around New Years.

New Photo of the Day 3/11/12, Moose in Bear Valley of Anchorage.

This bull moose was found up in Bear Valley in early spring.

Photo of the Day 3/10/12, Mark Tieszen telemark skiing in Northern Italy.

About 4 years ago I was with a group of telemark athletes, photographers, and videographers in the Dolomites of Northern Italy. The Dolomites are an awesome range that have cliff walls thousands of feet high. This photograph was taken trying emphasize the magnitude of these mountains.

Photo of the Day 3/9/12, Chugach Mountains

This photograph was taken looking across the the Turnagain Arm of the Chugach Mountains. The wind calmed slightly right before this photograph was taken which allowed me to get a decent reflection in the water.

New Photo of the Day 3/8/12, pair of owls in Bear Valley.

These 2 young owls made their home in our backyard when living in Bear Valley of Anchorage. This particular day they allowed me to approach them closer than ever, giving me the opportunity to photograph them from about 15 meters.

Photo of the Day 3/7/12

Skier David Magoffin straight lines out of area that started to move around on him. We were skiing in Alaska's Chugach Mountains. Managing your sluff(loose moving snow) in Alaska is an absolute must. Slopes are upwards 60-70 degrees at times and even a small amount of moving snow can knock you on your ass and take you for a ride.

Photo of the Day 3/6/12

Skier Candy Froerer getting some powder turns in Turnagain Pass, AK.

Photo of the Day 3/5/12, Emerald Downs with Mt. Rainier in background

There is nothing like a day by the mountains when gambling is involved! Emerald Downs horse track sits near the base of Mt. Rainier. In other words at least you have a nice view while losing your money.

Photo of the Day 3/4/12, Skier Paul Forward, location Hatcher Pass, AK

Skier Paul Forward rips a huge line in the Rae Wallace Chutes of Hatcher Pass, AK. This particular day a group of us ventured up the Rae Wallace Chutes, after some analyzation of avalanche probability we decided it was a go. Our reward was about 1-2 feet of untracked powder. So we did again, and again. It just never gets old!

New Photo of the Day 3/3/12, Jonathan Gurry freeheel skiing the Joule Couloir

This photo was taken by me while I was skiing the famous Joule(Jewel) Couloir, in the Northern Italy Dolomites. I mounted a big DSLR camera to my chest and had a remote trigger in my hand so I could take wide angle perspective photographs while I skied this fabled chute. As you can see from the photo is was an epic day with new snow and sun.

New Photo of the Day 3/2/12

This photo was taken at Snowbasin Resort in Utah of JT Robinson. It is an amazing thing when a person gets to go to there hometown and be counted as somebody more than when they left. JT called me about 2 months ago wondering if I had anything quick at my finger tips to send to his hometown(Wilmot, Wisconsin) paper the WESTOSHA REPORT. JT was there for the new premiere of Telemark Skier Magazine's movie LOYALTY, which he stars in. I was amazingly proud when JT sent me this photo over a text of him on the front page. I would have to say it felt cooler than any previously published photo, for the simple fact of getting to know that all his hometown people would see him and all he has become on front page. Not to mention how good of powder we had that day at the Basin.

New Photo of The day 3/1/12

This photograph was taken by my friend David Magoffin while I was photographing bears on Kodiak Island. Dave, who is the owner/operator of Saltery Lake Lodge guided me around for a couple days back in September. Kodiak bears are the largest brown bear in the world, partial due to lakes like Saltery Lake that sees incredible amounts of fish all summer long. You can get very close to these belly full bears, within reason of course.

Photo of the Day 2/29/12

This year Alyeska Resort has received over 700 inches so far. This snow has created all kinds of new features. This is David Magoffin ripping a pillow line.