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Shred Aid Calendar 2011

Kat Miller — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:17:24 +0000

Start 2011 off with a little bit of charity and buy the Shred Aid Calendar for £10. As one of the contributing photographers is my other half (Jools Smith) I thought I’d do a bit of shameless promotion of it.

Here’s the blurb…..

A charity calendar of amazing snowsports photography.

The 2011 Shred Aid Calendar showcases the work of the UK’s finest snowsports photographers, in one place, to help raise money for a great cause.

The calendar forms part of the fundraising effort of a group of Scotsmen taking part in the Mongol Rally 2011. The team aim to raise a minimum of £1200 for the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation, an international chrity operating in Mongolia, looking after orphans and street children in the capital Ulaanbaatar.

Not content with merely raising valuable funds for some of the poorest people in Mongolia, we will also be delivering a fully functioning ambulance full of essential medical supplies, halfway around the globe, where it will be put to great use serving the people of Mongolia.

Go on, do your bit for charity and have 12 lovely snowy pictures to brighten your wall or cubicle….. buy the Shred Aid Calendar for £10

Photos by Jools Smith: BST Giro Big Air

Kat Miller — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:26:14 +0000

Jools has been beavering away all day and I can now link to his slideshow on Flickr. If any of you do want hi-res shots then simply drop him an email (details in the set on Flickr) and he’ll ping them over to you. Enjoy.

Prepping for the Brits

Kat Miller — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:41:09 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve done a post, but all the snow shredding that friends have been getting up to has been making me exceedingly jealous. It’s always a bit depressing posting about indoor snow while everyone else is in the mountains but after having to cancel my month away in January due to work commitments I’m a week away from heading out to Laax, Switzerland for a two week trip.

I can’t wait to get back out to what is probably my favourite resort (followed closely by Mammoth) for a week of coaching followed by the British Snowboard Championships. I’ll be competing in all 4 disciplines, boardercross, big air, half pipe and slopestyle and I’m looking forward to giving my Plastictastic 156 a proper testing as so far it’s only been used on a 135m slope and that’s really not enough distance to allow it to really get up to full speed! I’m hoping it will help me quickly get used to the difference in speed required for the larger kickers I’ll be faced with (the Brits course is based on the course used for the Burton European Open).

I’ve had 3 excellent practice sessions recently, I’ve been lucky enough to have some more coaching from the crew at Maverix and it’s been good to get back on a board after a 12 week break. I’m looking forward to trying to convert what I’ve learnt indoors to the bigger park in Laax. If you want to read a bit more about the Maverix courses then take a look at this article from Cooler magazine.

I’ll do my best to keep you all updated on how I get on while I’m out there.

#tall

Kat Miller — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:51:16 +0000

Kate Day runs a weekly photo comp as part of her Telegraph blog. This week’s theme has been “tall” and so I thought I would give my new camera a competitive outing. I’m not expecting to get anywhere (and in fact I think today’s photos may actually have been submitted too late) but I thought it would be good to use a theme to encourage me to get shooting. You can also view all the photos submitted to Kate’s competition in this Flickr group.

Here’s a slideshow of the photos I added to the group:

Snow day

Kat Miller — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:44:05 +0000

I was working from home today as it snowed last night and rather than face delays on the trains, face icy pavements and general commuter stress caused by the weather it made more sense to actually stay put and get some work done. I took a mid-morning coffee break to pop out and get some milk and after I’d discovered that the local Coop had been stripped bare by the panic buyers I walked back through the village and took some photos. The local duck pond was almost completely frozen and covered in snow and the ducks seemed a bit peckish, unfortunately the local Post Office was out of duck pellets (they’re a local shop of random things as well as the post office) and the Coop was out of bread, hopefully someone will have fed them during the day though.
Anyway, here’s today’s slideshow of my village under snow.