For the last few weeks Connor Macleod and I have been labouring away in a new spot. It’s in Squamish, up the Squamish River. There’s no gate to get there… Feel free to track it down and have a ride. Just be a nice guy and don’t shoot it… yet, we need to get our stuff together first, ie: we have a pretty sweet project planned that will be popping up on Pinkbike starting December. I’ll do a post on all that once we start picking up steam, proposal’s just got wrapped up and are starting to go out to gather funding to keep us going. For now you can check out some building shots. In a few days I’ll do a post on the branding and proposal design I did up for this.

Connor under the rock line – pre-soil:

Rock line with soil:

View of line, into gap before it funnels back into singletrack:

Standing above the Rock line, plagued with flies:

Looking down the first steep, onto the ledge, then drops into the roll:

Mossy run-in:

Dirty hands:

Old volcanic peak. Nobody has been to the summit according to trusty wikipedia.

Just did an update following up the Romstad photos I shot back at the end of July. There is now a new section with a gallery of 15 images to go with the series, all available as prints. Have a look here:

http://derekdix.com/romstad.html

Also over the last month I’ve had the pleasure of helping out Alterna Films with their intro for 13 o’clock, which is coming out this fall. I’ve shot a bunch of behind the scenes stuff that is up on push.ca:

Part I
Part II

Here’s a couple of my favorite shots:

There was cloud floating over the city the last couple days, checking the forecast I knew it wasn’t going to last long. Sadly I didn’t manage to shoot any mountain biking but did manage to do a hike with my brother Landon, up to the peak of Hollyburn Mountain after work. The fog was dense, it looked like not many people had been up there since spring, and the snow was still plentiful. We wrapped up the adventure with a good number of shots, two of which have made it into my People section on my portfolio, so have a look.

That’s that. 4 years wrapped up at ACAD. Got my degree, convocation is Thursday the 19th. Grad Show runs May 18 – 28. Stop by at the opening if you can!

May 18 – 28, 2011
ACAD | Main Mall, 3rd floors and Illingworth Kerr Gallery
Opening reception | May 18, 2011 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

ACAD is at the core of Calgary’s creative community and each year our graduates go on to transform their fields of endeavor through their creative process, becoming important voices in the worlds of art and design in Calgary and beyond. We are proud to celebrate the remarkable work of this year’s graduating class here, at the 2011 ACAD Grad Show. This year, ACAD’s Illingworth Kerr Gallery is proud to present work by nearly 200 graduating students, including eleven recipients of ACAD’s prestigious Board of Governor Awards. We have planned a unique and extensive exhibition staged throughout our College – prepare to be surprised, awed and inspired by these talented and energetic creators. We hope you enjoy the show!

- Spot Scouting

If you talked to me over the last week you most likley have heard me going on and on about all these sick spots up this highway somewhere in some mountains. I went scoping with my boy Nick Pb(I’d link to his facebook or something but he got kicked off for not using his real last name). Heres shot, so people actually care about this blog post.

Last week I did a quick product shoot with Colin Poon for a project concept he had of a store called Stockroom. We combined items we personally own to get the styling all put together. Things turned out well, here’s a preview:

So, I’m back in Calgary for school, writing this on the plane before my second stint back home to Vancouver. At school I’ve been shooting mad fashion/lifestyle type work, and as much biking as possible. I have a side project that is just a blog of cellphone photography I’ve shot called Ooh BB.

Few major things have gone on since the last update, apparently Lorny has been working up at our MTBville on some new stuff. Ross still isn’t riding a bike like he should and Connor just likes electro…

But in all seriousness, I had my shots from Gully’s ‘How to’ section run in the 3D issue of Decline, then a few Party Flicks from the MTBville.com Launch Party run in the Crankworx Issue aswell. Last time while I was back in October, Connor and I slayed some high alpine epic 6400 feet above sea level, in a spot that is but isn’t too top secret. We shot some good bangers with nug light and they will be in the Session 88 review and gear shots that should pop up on NSMB some time in the near future.

While I’m back this week I plan to get some epic lifestyles of gritty rain building with Rosstridge/Giross, shoot a cribs type lifestyle with Jordie and Lorny and Mark for MBUK (thanks for the hook up Toffee) and finally bang out some riding shots with Lorny… And a solid themed fashion shoot with Brad Fairall, which I will have more on later.

Hope to see everyone out there tonight for the release party of MTBville.

Just got back from setting up and this is our favorite photobooth to date. We’re also giving away a Rocky Mountain Flow frame courtesy of Rocky. There’s also tons of other goodies that will be handed out, you know… just to make a super sweet party more sweet.

Doors are at 9 tonight and there is a decent chance of a big line, so arrive early.

Check some pics of the booth.