Ensenada to San Felipe 250

Just got back from a crazy trip to Baja on Sunday night. I travelled with Roger Norman and some members of his race team documenting their adventures during the Ensenada to San Felipe 250. We left Thursday morning, did some prerunning Friday, followed the race Saturday and left Sunday, it was wild. I was hanging out the window of the chase truck on poorly maintained Mexican highways going 80mph chasing the prerunner with my HVX mounted to the side of the car on a panhead; also riding in the prerunner with my tripod strapped literally on top of me operating through 100mph off road intensity. It was all in good fun though, and we gathered some really great footage. Check out the piece I cut together for Norman Motorsports.

Noman Motorsports - RECORD Ensenada to San Felipe 250 from Seth Naugle on Vimeo.

Back Country Telemark Skiing in Tahoe

Photo: Kenny and I trek up the the last steep section of a mountain overlooking beautiful Lake Tahoe.

Skiing is way harder than I had anticipated. I tried it once when I was 6 and remember it being not too difficult. I'm a southern California kid, so the snow is a whole new environment for me. I had heard that telemark skiing is super hard from many people around here in Tahoe, but I was willing to give it a try.

I met Kenny while climbing at the gym, he is a strong climber and also happens to be a skillful telemark skier. We got to talking about skiing and I asked him if he could teach me some backcountry stuff and he agreed. Here is a link to his website:

www.TahoeWakesports.com

Backcountry Tahoe is absolutely gorgeous. I was amazed that we were able to hike around out there. Even more impressive was the fact that we could walk up hills with skins attached to our skis. The whole time while we were going up I couldn't help the thought that we were going to have to ski all the way back down. Going down was way hard for me, my legs kept wanting to go in different directions and I got to practice my crashing in depth. The good thing is I made it down the mountain in one piece. Super thanks to Kenny for taking me out and being patient with me.

Check out the rest of the photos here:

Baja1000 2009 Ensenada

    

Photo: Norman Racing Trophy truck launches off the first jump of the 2009 Baja 1000.

The Baja 1000 is quite a spectacle,  attracting people young and old, rich and poor, from all over to witness one of motor sports's gnarliest races across the desert. My brother Seth and I were lucky enough to get to tag along with RPM Photographer Howard Tande  (check out his site) who shoots for Norman Motorsports.

Unfortunately the vehicle we had planned on traveling around Mexico in was having some mechanical issues so we were only able to capture the start and finish line area of the race. We did our best and were happy with the few shots we were able to get.

Check out this link for More Pics!

Here is a short video piece Seth put together for Norman Motorsports.
*If the video skips, click on "HD is ON" on the right side of the video player, and that will switch playback to standard definition for lower bandwidth systems.*

2009 Baja 1000 - Norman Motorsports from Seth Naugle on Vimeo.

Nature Reel

Best of my nature footage I've shot.

Nature Reel from Seth Naugle on Vimeo.

DP Reel

My Director of Photography Reel. Basically the best of all the footage I've shot in my career so far cut together as a promo piece.

DP Reel Vimeo from Seth Naugle on Vimeo.

"To Purgatory and Back," Bouldering in the Middle of Nowhere Desert of Nevada

                                      

Photo: Trekking through the desert in search of good climbs. "Purgatory," Nevada.

Most people I've met in the Tahoe area have heard of Purgatory, but have never climbed there because you might as well drive the extra hour and a half to go to Bishop. Jason Burd invited my girl friend Sasha and I to go along with him for a day trip. We drove a solid 3 hours into the middle of nowhere to get there. It was definitely worth the trip, we just wished we could have stayed a few extra days, there were boulders everywhere.

For more information about Purgatory, check out this website:

Purgatory guide

 

 Photo: Jason Burd on a really cool V3 cave problem we found.

Photo: Rafael Valdes clings to an awesome arete problem we found.

Photo: Rafael Valdes on V3 arete.          

This place has some really nice routes. We barely touched the surface of what was around.                                         

Thanks to Sasha for helping me out with the pole flash. To light these shots I used a Canon 580ex II attached to a extentable monopod held by Sasha. The flash was powered by a Quantom Turbo 2x2 battery. The flash was triggered by a pocket wizard. Images were produced on a Canon 5D Mark II with 16-25mm L lens.

Photo: Sasha Coben working on a V2 crack problem.

 

We will definitely need to come back to Purgatory later this winter. Being so remote, it was one of the quietest places I have ever been.  Check out this link to see the rest of the photos from the day.

Purgatory Photos

Thanks again to everyone that was there for the trip.

Action Sports Reel

I've shot quite a few random sports events or spots in the last few months, these are some of my favorite shots from my vault of footage. Hope you enjoy it!

Action Sports Reel from Seth Naugle on Vimeo.