09/07/2026
Winter of 1988 I was living in Lake Tahoe developing my skills as a photographer. I was also developing a line of postcards which had to have ski images. I befriended a couple of great skiers who would do anything to be in front of the camera. I was working in low light toward dusk above Incline Village so I used the flash to illuminate the subject.
The average on camera flash bursts at aprox 1/10,000 of a second but the camera was set at a 60th of a second, the flash freezes motion but the skier kept traveling in darkness after the flash which created a forward moving shadow. this technique gives a 3D affect to the image.