This is what it's like to go nordic skiing...if you have no idea what you're doing.
All shot with iPhone4 by Buck Ross Productions.

Awards video for TDA Boulder highlighting their Holiday Party Sobriety Test app.
Shot and edited by Buck Ross Productions.

Episode eight of an eight part web series on the Beaver Creek Ski Patrol for snow.com
Produced, shot, and edited by Buck Ross Productions.

Episode seven of an eight part web series on the Beaver Creek Ski Patrol for snow.com
Produced, shot, and edited by Buck Ross Productions.

Episode six of an eight part web series on the Beaver Creek Ski Patrol for snow.com
Produced, shot, and edited by Buck Ross Productions.

Episode five of an eight part web series on the Beaver Creek Ski Patrol for snow.com
Produced, shot, and edited by Buck Ross Productions.

Episode four of an eight part web series on the Beaver Creek Ski Patrol for snow.com
Produced, shot, and edited by Buck Ross Productions.

Episode three of an eight part web series on the Beaver Creek Ski Patrol for snow.com
Produced, shot, and edited by Buck Ross Productions.

Episode two of an eight part web series on the Beaver Creek Ski Patrol for snow.com
Produced, shot, and edited by Buck Ross Productions.

Two ski seasons ago Buck Ross Productions spent almost a week on the mountain with the Beaver Creek Ski Patrol following them around as they went about their exciting and exhausting job. The result was an eight part web series for snow.com where we met the fine people who keep our ski resorts safe and learned what it means to be a ski patroller.

As the ski season gets into full swing we're going to post these episodes here to get us all stoked for winter skiing and riding. Produced, shot, and edited by Buck Ross Productions.

Every year I think about this web spot Buck Ross helped create for The Denver Rescue Mission. It's about the biggest shopping day of the year and how very little it means to the people in our cities without homes. This little production, all shot and edited in one day, left a lasting impression on us and won four different industry awards.

A short promo video produced, shot, and edited by Buck Ross for Three Jewels Retreats, a luxury yoga and surf experience company. Makes me want to be back in Mexico surfing. Bad.

An intro to a series of Diet Coke consumer insight videos for Egg Strategy (a local consultancy). This project took Buck Ross to seven different global markets interviewing consumers in their homes and learning about the lives they lead.

A short home movie of a train ride through Spain on a recent research shoot in Europe.

A video Buck Ross recently edited about Claudia Folska, PhD. Claudia is a blind woman who studies how people navigate built environments, without sight. Using echo location and other non-visual "paths", she explains how she moves not only through cities, but through life.

This video was a digital extra for a written article in Wired Magazine. All shot by friend and local photog phenom Jamie Kripke.

At 4am on August 20th my brother-in-law Zach began running. 24 grueling hours later, after 100 miles of Rocky Mountains he finished the infamous Leadville Trail 100. In addition to completing one of the toughest races out there, Zach and his wife Kylie are in the process of adopting a child from South Africa. This race was part of their fundraising efforts for a donation to the orphanage. Way to go Zach!

During the race my father-in-law Scoot shot all this video and asked me to edit a short piece they could share with their supporters.

Back in the Summer of 2008, I worked on the production of Body Trek a short film that examines the physiological changes that take place in a person's body as they climb a 14,000 foot Colorado mountain. This film is part of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science's permanent exhibit Expedition Health and is on display there in an object theater with an ultra-wide screen.

We used two Sony F900 HDCAMs with prime lenses mounted together on a single plate to create a panoramic setup. The two images were shot slightly overlapping and were later stitched together to create the panoramic image used in the film. The tripod alone weighed 65 pounds and the entire rig took a good 4-5 people to carry. It was so fun to work with this kind of technology and image quality high in the mountains. The end result was something we were all very proud of and will be on display in the museum for years to come.

Back in the winter of 2008 I was lucky enough to be an cameraman for a documentary called Blind Skiers Edge. It is a film about Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind man to ever climb Mount Everest, his technique for skiing, and the state of blind skiing today.

I had met and worked with Erik on many projects before so I was used to regularly being inspired by him and his audacious adventures. What was really unique was the day we filmed a group of newly blinded Iraq & Afghanistan war veterans as they stepped into skis for the very first time. These wounded soldiers, who had giving their sight for our country, nervously approached this new challenge. They were learning to deal with their new disability in real-time, before our very cameras. When they each skied down the hill alone for the very first time and with arms raised triumphantly, realize they could still do anything they put their minds too, blind or not, I don't think there was a dry eye in the house. It was one of the most truely inspiring things I've ever witnessed.

This is a preview of that film, in a poor resolution, that has nothing of the soldiers in it, but I hope it at least gives you the basic idea of what it means to ski blind.

Was fortunate enough to go spend the last five days in my most favorite of mountain towns, Crested Butte, Colorado. Took four different images while mountain biking near Paradise Divide and then stitched them together into this panorama all using my iPhone. What an amazing little device and an even more amazing place.

Back in the Spring of 2007, I spent two and a half months in Nepal filming Everest: Conquering Thin Air 3D Imax, the sequel to the highest grossing Imax film ever made, with MacGillivray Freeman Films. For almost two of those months this was home, a tent at 17,500 feet at the base of the famed Khumbu Icefall. It was my first time ever working with Imax film and one of the most amazing experiences of my life. The film is due out in 2013.

I recently heard someone say, "What the World Needs is More Creativity!"
Not to be preachy or a wannabe scholar, but here's what that question made me think about.

Creativity often results from situations where one is actually forced to act on their feet and come up with creative, novel solutions in order to succeed or survive. Take someone stranded on a deserted island for example. Well, in our current world of convenience and comfort not a lot of people willingly place themselves in these kinds of situations. Whether it's a product of laziness, a fear of failure, or insecurity; a lot of people greatly avoid the pressures of having to be creative because frankly they don't have to. They can get by without it. As a result we wind up copying and slightly altering the results of the few brave people who have made a leap to be truly creative. So often the progression of things is greatly slowed because so many people aren't willing to put themselves out there. They just want to stick with what works or what kinda works cause it's easier, because they can still survive that way.

So, while it's probably not the only thing the world needs, I'm sure some more creativity wouldn't hurt.

This was the very first film project I ever worked on. I had only been on the job for three months when the boss asked, "Want to go to Africa and produce a documentary on malaria?" I immediately dove into one of the most rewarding and educating experiences of my career. Three continents and months of post production later we had Fighting Malaria, a feature-length documentary on the global malaria crisis that later won three industrial film awards.

Eldorado Spings Pool on the 4th of July. So American. You gotta love it!

Wanted to start this blog off in true fashion. Here's my favorite scene from one of my favorite movies of all time, Jeremiah Johnson. Not rocket science or laden with hidden ideas, just a great piece of filmmaking that makes me laugh everytime.