In his 26 year ski career, Mike Douglas, has done it all – World Cup mogul competitor, coach, film star, TV commentator, innovator, adventurer, event director, writer, film producer and more. Most notably, he is credited with the design of the modern twin–tip ski – an innovation that changed the sport. Known as the ‘Godfather of Freeskiiing’, Mike is constantly pushing forward and challenging the boundaries of skiing and the media that surrounds it.

Though he has dabbled in filmmaking since his first high school project – a short 8mm film called 'Born To Ski'– it wasn’t until 2006 that he started to take his production work seriously. At that time he founded Switchback Entertainment and began production on the web-series, Salomon Freeski TV. Since then he has worked on more than 100 productions and has won several filmmaking awards. Mike’s passion lies in directing and the creative process of filmmaking.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike is a former musician who started his craft by photographing live music performances.  His dedication towards photography has taken his journey from the sun to the moon and even the Milky Way — It’s all about getting that once in a lifetime shot!

Mike will plan his shoots a couple of weeks in advance. Preparation is key to capturing that big moon or that lightning shot — Even if he finds himself running in a thunderstorm to a location or navigating in the dark to shoot the moon. 

Mike was featured on the TV station News 12 NJ for his time lapse of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket over New Jersey. In addition, the rocket was also published on Accuweather, Yahoo and MSN. Other TV stations where his work was featured on were WPIX & NY1.  Mike is also an ambassador for f-stop and Lume Cube.

HOME BASE: CZECH REPUBLIC

Michal Krause has been a photographer for almost 20 years and currently focuses mainly on wildlife photography. His passion has taken him to four continents and numerous biotopes ranging from tropical rainforest to African savanna and temperate forest to mountains and Arctic plains. He says the cold north is a matter of the heart to him and likes to go back to the Arctic wilderness. Michal’s photographs have been honored in several contests including Czech Press Photo, Wildlife Photo Contest and Nature’s Best Windland Smith Rice Awards and he is proud Fujifilm X-Photographer.

Michal has authored several hundred educational articles and three successful e-books on postproduction, gives regular lectures and runs individual photography workshops. Last but not least, he is the co-founder of the Czech Nature Photo contest and has chaired its jury three times.

Mauro is a professional landscape photographer. Born in Naples, Italy, Nature has become his greatest source of inspiration, so much so as to increase the desire to represent it and share it through his eyes. What excites him most is night photography. He loves to represent the beauty of our planet with that of the universe through "astro-landscape" shots.

"Mauro Cirigliano is a professional landscape photographer, inspired by nature. He was born and raised in Italy, with the fortune of living not far from one of the most beautiful natural places in the world, the Dolomites.

He loves exploring wonderful and uncontaminated places, spending most of his free time in the mountains and in the wilderness.
His greatest passion is to live it and share it through his eyes, capturing the most significant moments and the most beautiful compositions.
Mauro is particularly fond of night photography. In love with the beauty of our planet, he reflects on its origins, directing his gaze towards the stars!

Hence the instinct to reconcile the beauty of our planet's landscapes with that of the universe through "astro-landscape" shots.
Today Mauro teaches photography through courses, workshops and photo tours to the most beautiful places in the world."

HOME BASE: USA

Michael Clark is an internationally published adventure photographer. He produces intense, raw images of athletes pushing their sports to the limit and has risked life and limb on numerous assignments to bring back stunning images of rock climbers, mountaineers, kayakers, mountain bikers, big-wave surfers, skydivers, and many other extreme sports athletes, often working in remote locations around the world. He uses unique angles, bold colors, strong graphics, and cutting-edge, dramatic lighting techniques to capture fleeting moments of passion, gusto, flair, and bravado in the outdoors. Balancing extreme action with subtle details, striking portraits, and wild landscapes, he creates images for the editorial, advertising, and stock markets worldwide.

As a former physicist, Michael has worked on both sides of the technical revolution – helping refine the technology and using it for his current profession. Michael has worked as a professional photographer since 1996. He has been featured in Digital Photo Pro, Outdoor Photographer, Nikon World Magazine, Digital Photographer, and Rangefinder Magazine for his work with extreme sports. Digital Photo Pro proclaimed Michael a "Master of Adventure" Photography” in their 2011 Masters issue.

He contributes to National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Outside, Men's Journal, Backpacker, Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photo Pro, Climbing, Alpinist, Rock and Ice, Bike Magazine, and The New York Times among many others.

A sampling of Michael's advertising clients includes Apple, Nike, Nikon, Adobe, Red Bull, Microsoft, Nokia, Patagonia, New Balance, Propel/Gatorade, Pfizer, DuPont, 20th Century Fox, Black Diamond, Prana, Arc'teryx, Camelbak, La Sportiva, and Gregory Packs.

HOME BASE: USA

Born in Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon, Truc Nguyen Allen immigrated to Southeastern US with his mother in 1980. Realizing at a young age that a life in the outdoors was where he wanted to be, he’s been dedicated to adventure sports and the outdoor industry for over 25 years.

Currently living in Seattle, Washington, Truc has been providing photos and video for global to local clients like Rock & Ice and Climbing Magazines, GORE-TEX, Arc’Teryx, Outdoor Research, MadRock Climbing, Nikwax, Traction eRag, and many more. His love for photography and the backcountry is only rivaled by his dedication to family and creating relationships within the community. As a long time athlete in each sport, he also commits a regular amount of his time as board, committee, and staff with local to national advocacy, stewardship, and safety organizations like the American Alpine Club, Access Fund, Washington Climbers Coalition, and the Northwest Avalanche Center. When he can find the time, he also writes music, performing around Seattle, and regular shows for the annual Outdoor Retailer in Denver.

Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1978, he spent his formative years immersed in the counterculture of the 1990s, where his self-expression bloomed. As both an observer and a participant in snowboard culture, he has been shooting snowboarding and its active community around the world since 1998.

For the last 20 years, he has followed this community of people who place snowboarding at the center of their lives, in a kind of "New Tribal Life" - a snow-based tribe that appeared at the end of the 20th century.

Additionally, central themes in his principal works to date include; "Snow Meditation" focusing on the synchronicity of 'snow' and 'mind-heart'; "Memory of Water" focusing on Arctic glaciers with the theme of circulation of water and the memory of life. Throughout his creative journey, he strives to explore artistic expression and seek the harmony between nature, culture and the shining brightness of life on this planet.

HOME BASE: CANADA

Tyler is a photographer and educator based in Alberta Canada with a passion for the outdoors. This passion continues to push Tyler to explore beautiful locations in search of dramatic landscapes and epic light.

Ulla is a world renowned photojournalist and documentary maker, with her specialities being expeditions, tribal cultures, and volcanos.

Vegard is the stereotypical skier gone shooter from Norway. Only with a twist, having taken it all the way from shooting Special Forces in Afghanistan to working with advertising in Hollywood and everything between.

All in the same time while working steadily as a staff shooter for Norway’s #1 skiing magazine, Fri Flyt, and making Norways biggest MTB bike festival, Hillbilly Huckfest with a few friends in the summer.

His sports and outdoor background has lead him into shooting for some of the biggest brand names within the industry. He now keeps pushing his photography further by experimenting a lot with green screen techniques and composites for his advertising work, while staying true to portraying the action he shoots and making sure the movement and sports aspect of it looks good.

Born in 1985 he’s still young in the industry, but with an agent in LA he’s pushing his own boundaries and working hard to make the next big step into the US market.