The July issue of Bike magazine has just dropped and it looks like they’ve given us the cover in addition to the feature story Andrew Findlay (writer) and I gathered during our wild trip to Guatemala in January (see blog post, “Guatemala: a-diversion-from-winter”). The cover is a different breed of toning I applied to the image that I normally do, but it seemed to work with the environment, and seemingly the photo editor at Bike magazine.
This past fall I got an assignment from Bike magazine to shoot close ups of gear for their Bible issue. I spent a couple days by myself on the trail tinkering about mounting cameras on different places on the bike shooting brakes, wheels, forks, tires, and cranks. Stoked to see they put the self portrait fork shot on the cover!
Here is a new(ish) cover, this time from Germany’s Bike Magazine. I shot this last August while riding in the Chilcotins – one of the hearts of “epic” riding in BC. Mount Dickson stands in the backcountry, with my brother Chad, and friend Pat Mulroney descending a rocky ridge. It won’t be too long now until we’re riding bikes again, although ski season is far from over!
This post is a little dated, my apologies. In January, I did something I never do, and that is ride my bike…in Guatemala of all places. Shooting for Bike magazine, I joined Vancouver Island writer Andrew Findlay, and together we joined Matt Hartell and his co-pilot Luisa for a trip around Guatemala riding. Most of the riding was on (some ancient) Mayan foot paths that Matt has pieced together into flowing trails, something that has taken a lot of exploration and work. From riding down to Lake Atitlan rimmed with volcanoes on limestone foot steps, to eating mystery meat on dirt floors with a family in the remote village of Chortiz, it was a wild experience.
Recently I had the opportunity to be featured in American Photo magazine, as part of their “One to Watch” and “Skills” departments. Feel free to check it out by downloading the PDF’s here APH0210_017-019 and here APH0210_068-070.
Since I was quite young, I have always spent a lot of time in the shop – designing, building, and tinkering. One of the things I love about photography is it gives me an excuse to continue being creative in the shop. Getting the camera out of my hands and into harder to reach spots is a goal that often guides my photographic process, in order to reveal a different perspective. This inevitably requires some sort of gadget, and I love the process of designing, building (at least in part), and tinkering with the eventual goal of using the boom, or rig, or mount, or whatever it becomes to help gain a unique and/or aesthetic perspective.
In this vein, and in the spirit of testing the video function of my new Nikon D3s, I put together this quick video of some recent time spent making some new equipment that I’ll be using this winter.
Workshop Time from Jordan Manley Photography on Vimeo.
Cruise the galleries – I have put up some of my favorite images from the past 6 months taken my travels through British Columbia, the American west, and the French Alps.
In the spring I was approached by the Millennium Place Gallery to a show – I have long considered doing a gallery exhibit, but had never gone through with it. For one thing, its really expensive to do it right. Anyhow, I agreed to do it and it has been a fun experience, though lots of work to get prepped. I went through all my favorite images and selected 21 – from Alaska to Antarctica, but many from here at home too. I focused on what my favorite types of images are, but tried to also balance that with what people might like to see on their own walls. Half are printed on canvas, the other half are traditionally framed. I’m personally a huge fan of the canvases, and part of me thinks I should have done everything in canvas.
The opening will be this coming Tuesday the 8th of September, at Millennium Place in Whistler, doors at 7pm.
There will also be a fundraiser portion to the evening, Arcteryx and Kastle auctioning off some gear with proceeds going towards the Kees & Claire Memorial Hut Project, so thanks very much to John Irvine from Arcteryx, and Sigi Rumpfhuber from Kastle for helping out that – cool to see they are giving back to the ski community in BC.
Very happy to see the new cover of Bike magazine, a picture Darcy Turenne and I took in Naniamo, BC last fall. It is my first Bike mag cover. The issue also contains a series of portraits I took with Darcy, Micayla Gatto, and Willow Koerber.
Here is a new image for the opener of the Bike Magazine Photo Annual issue. I shot this with Joe Schwartz, a fairly techy setup, with one camera shooting through another’s viewfinder, while panning.