It's the time of year where I get bummed that winter is coming to an end. But like every year, I can look back and think of all the good times that were had in the snow and think of the fun that's awaiting me in the summer sun. In memory of winter, I just through together a compilation of photos I shot from contests throughout the year. Winter '09 Snowboarding Contests

Yesterday, I went for a morning cruise on my track bike to enjoy a warm sunny day (knowing that I would be sitting in front of my computer on this rainy day) and shot some photos for a little project I'm working on. I live in East Boston, about 10 blocks from Logan International airport, and 2 blocks from the harbor. Out of my bedroom window, I can see oil tankers moving up the harbor and airplanes blasting off from behind houses. So, I've been taking photos of ships and airplanes around East Boston. Before I leave Boston, I hope to have a good set of photos for this little project.

Ship unloading salt in Chelsea

Plane skimming rooftops in Orient Heights

Check out thelastpeople.com. It's a good collection of bmx, photography, and art sites. And thanks to Brian Barnhart for putting snapflux.com up there.

I've been enjoying a nice break from the winter weather. To put this into perspective for readers that live in warm climates, this means it hasn't really been below 25F in the past couple days, it hasn't been snowing, and it actually got above 50F at one point. I haven't had to worry about snow and ice on my bike commute. However, the asshole drivers are still out there. Man, it seriously feels like its a war zone out there lately. Some guy was pulling out of a parking spot the other day and didn't look, so I yelled “Hey!” to avoid getting hit as I went around him. Apparently the guy was pissed at me because he didn't have the sense to check his mirrors before pulling onto the street, so he blew his horn at me. When I looked over my shoulder, he was giving me the finger and boy did he look pissed. I was in no rush, so I took that as an opportunity to practice my track-stand in the middle of this tight one-way street for about a minute or so until another car came up behind him.

Anyway, back to the weather. I'm tired of this warm weather. I want snow. It's snowing, and that makes me pumped. Looks like about a foot of snow coming to Vermont through tomorrow, and I'm going to Sugarbush on Friday, and that makes me super pumped.

Back around the time this warm weather started, I drove down to NYC to shoot some photos at the Red Bull Snowcrapers snowboard contest. It was about 5F during the contest, but it quickly warmed up to those 50+ temperatures I was talking about a few days later, and made for some good bike riding.

Scotty Lago with a big method during practice

Shayne Pospisil throwing down a huge method on his victory run. Keep the methods coming boys.

Went over to Post BMX in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for a mini ramp session. I didn't have my BMX with me on this trip, so I took it has an opportunity to play with my flashes. Here's Dave Hall with a fakie wallride.

Darryl Nau boosting a big air on a small, tight ramp.

Just updated the photos section with two new galleries. The first gallery is from a photo shoot of Bob Tickleson and Roger Dixwell on summer vacation. Those dudes know how to bring the fun! Check out the video of their summer vacation. The second gallery is from my family trip back in September. My parents got a van, and we hit up a bunch of national parks in Utah and Arizona. We went to Las Vegas too... it was fun for a day, and then I realized what a frightening place it is. It boggles my mind that that place even exists. Anyway, I was glad to get out of there and into the desert after a day of that.

I was able to get some stuff updated on the site because I finally had a weekend where I could just hang out and do nothing. This is the first weekend in three weekends that I haven't spent living out of a hotel room, and the first weekend I've spent in Boston in over a month. I went up to Rye Airfield in New Hampshire on Friday night for a private session, and got to bust out the BMX for a first time in a while. I'm totally digging the new setup, and I was pleased that I could actually flow around a bit. I spent all day Saturday and Sunday doing very little and I enjoyed every bit of the relaxation. I got some reading done, I worked on some photos, watched Pee Wee's Big Adventure (One of two DVD's that I have actually purchased), I made waffles for breakfast today, and I spent all afternoon making a venison pie and veggie pie for a big dinner.

Vic Bettencourt of Circuit BMX carving a big curved wall, bowl corner thingy at Rye. Two flash setup using radio slaves. This is big stuff for me, and the first time I've done such a thing!

It snowed pretty good today. I didn't really feel like going outside to take photos (since I was so busy with... my... ummm.... yup) so I worked on some window photography. These are some shots from both ends of the apartment.

And behold... the glorious venison pie. Deer venison, baby onions, shittake mushrooms, and 2 bottles of Long Trail Double Bag. I would like to credit Jeff as the hand model in this photo.

Until my next weekend with nothing to do...

After a down time of 6 months, Snap Flux is back. The only major appearance changes I made to the site are the way the photos are displayed, but my method of getting photos on the site is much better than it used to be. The first set of photos right now are from my trip to Iceland back in August. I backpacked around for ten days and hiked, camped, got rained on, and shot some photos. Check them out in the Photographs section.

In other news, winter is right around the corner, and I'm pumped to go shred some powder. I'm planning on taking an avalanche safety course and using my skills out west later in the season. I'm going to get things started in a couple weeks up in Maine at the Steezin TV video premiere.