A chronological journey taking us 8 years into the past starting with the development of the first ever split-powsurfer prototypes on earth and moving forward through years of development that led us to where we are today with the latest Grassroots Splitsurfers.

At Grassroots we have been splitsurfing almost as long as we have been powdersurfing. The “Transformer” is our latest invention that brings amazing access to riders all over the world. The “Transformer” splitsurfer is designed to excel as a powsurfer but also allows the rider the option of riding with bindings to help get out of packed out trails, poor snow conditions at lower elevation, and to open up tons of side country access outside resorts.

Visit http://powsurf.com for more information about how to powsurf & to purchase a powsurfer for yourself.

Shot, Written, Edited, & Narrated by Jeremy Jensen
Music: Little Barefoot “Instrumental” Littlebarefoot.bandcamp.com
Riders: Jeremy Jensen

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Nicaragua

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Since winters no longer exist out in the Western U.S., I decided to head to California for some surf.

 

Scoring!!!!!

 

 

With all the epic waves, the pros were stacking footage for their latest videos or trying to score a cover shot!

If you look closely, you can see the surfer on the outside wave. Gives you a good idea of how big the swell was in some spots.

Can you spot the 3 surfers about to get crushed by this closeout bomb? “When the wave breaks here, don’t be there, or you are going to get drilled.”, says Turtle from the movie North Shore.

Only in SoCal!

Slashing!

Empty lefts.

Sunsets were not to shabby.

Seriously the waves were perfect!

 

Grassroots riders Jeremy Jensen and Scotty Arnold take a trip up north to powsurf with a handful of Canadian rippers. 4 days of sunshine and dry powder conditions in the Coastal mountains of British Columbia had stoke levels high as ever. Many in our crew were riding Grassroots Powsurfers for the first time and seeing the smiles on their faces at the bottom of every run made the trip that much better.

Riders: DCP, Kevin Sansalone, Alex Warburton, Justin Lamoureux, Rob Stevens, Scott Gaffney, Scotty Arnold, and Jeremy Jensen.

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Last May I had the opportunity to travel to the Lochsa River drainage in Idaho and photograph a great group of whitewater surfers. Every year during spring runoff this location is sought out by adventure lovers for the large standing wave that develops and holds for weeks on end. Long days of travel, zero cell service for many miles in either direction, and many hours cold the water are the name of the game. The weather and water temperature make hoods, mitts, and thick wetsuits necessary a majority of the time.

With many hours to shoot and no outside interference via cell phone this was going to be the perfect time to try some different lighting setups and get them dialed in. The wave sits in a deep canyon that gets shade early in the afternoon if the sun shows up at all. Many of the times that I had been in this river drainage it had been cloudy and stormy all day. I hoped that this trend would make for some engaging new imagery. I had brought along the Quadra setup with the deep Octabox and 3 Speedlights as well loads of ziploc bags to protect from the almost constant drizzle. I had also brought a painters extension pole with a baby pin adapter in order to get the octabox much closer than I could have with any normal grip equipment.

I located the Quadra rig upstream of the wave. During daylight hours this allowed me to use it as a fill early in the day and then transition it to a key light after the sun disappeared. I would also add the speedlights downstream to provide a rim to the surfer and more depth to the scene as it got later in the evening.

Many thanks to the great crew from Strongwater in Missoula, MT and my pal Herb for being willing subjects on this fun project!

1/100 @f4.5 ISO100

1/50 @f3.5 ISO100

1/40 @ f4 ISO100

1/50 @ f5.6 ISO200

Cheers!

Isaac

http://www.isaacmillerphotography.com/