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Great shot. Would like to know how many frames per second you shot at to get this?

7/7

What do you think of white plains of snow?... It's all around the surface....

That's called reflector of EARTH....

On that angle, shadow doesn't fall directly down... look at the sun!!! the shadow should be behind the camera!!

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A 'labour of editing love' ... thanks for doing it so we can see what it looks like. :-)

Aesthetics? A matter of taste, but it is a fine technical photograph.

As JC sayz, it is interesting to see how it goes. The picture and photographer deserve credit for doing that very well, I think.

Great scenery, beautiful colors. This could have been an interesting photograph...but it's so small, most detail is invisible. The viewer can get a basic idea of motion progression, but that's all.

There's no information provided as to how this shot was made, no idea of equipment used, or technique. What I'm seeing is a camera on a tripod, pre-focused, no panning at all...just different figures edited in. I don't see the skill here at all.

Cute? Yes. POTW? Not hardly.

I don't think there's any fixed formula criteria for POW. This one being very different from the norm. It has a very good time frame or editing technique which is nicely done.
To excuse it as 'Cute", I believe is being very trite. As for aesthetics? As someone mentioned it's a matter of personal taste. Personally I like the photo

By some metrics for a traditional still photo this is nothing special, but it's not intended as a traditional still photo.

Clearly the photographer had a mind to make an illustration of the movements involved in executing this trick. I'm

guessing Dan has a particular interest in snowboarding.

As an illustration this would have been stronger, I think, if it had been cropped more to remove some of the sky and

snow top and bottom. Could have been printed as a panorama. My eye doesn't quite follow it from right to left - flipping

it horizontally might work better. (For westerners anyway.) I'm not ecstatic about how the background transitions

between white, white with shadow, blue and white again - if a different shooting position or location could have been

found to make the background simpler it would have better focused the attention on the subject.

Cool concept, I like it and think its successful but some more attention to that sort of detail would have pushed it over

from good to great. Also I suspect that this was actually shot in video? If it doesn't have enough resolution to make a

good size print with detail that would make it less strong.

My biggest issue--or is it my smallest--was that the image here is so small for this sort of detail. That and the trick is maybe not so flashy--like turning upside down might be--that, at this size, it took me some time to figure it all out. I don't think any of these issues are a negative to Dan's work, it is just a function of the format here. The image is a well conceived and executed composition and the image itself feels like a commercial or editorial style shot--which it apparently is.

In fact, I did go look at Dan's website and this image came up a bit larger and I think it clarified itself quite a bit with just that little bump in size. I actually liked the way the AD/designer presented each of the frames of snowboarder as well--as if they were individual cards placed onto the scene with drop shadows to give some dimension as if placed over a landscape shot. This gave the image a bit more of a conceptual edge rather than an Edgerton edge. I liked the rendition there a bit better than just this photographic treatment which is a bit more predictable. (For those interested, the image is under the category "references" as I remember and is more like what we would call "tear sheets" here in the states, so there is context to the image use, and maybe the reason it was created?)

Anyway, a nicely executed image that really needs to be seen a bit larger to fully appreciate.

Thechincally interesting. As it is really small, I entered Dan's work and sow some of the same kind but sizes better presented. I think that it is showing nicely the movements of the different skiers in their different hights( semi circled), and the mountains location.

I agree with John about the size of this one, but the others in his filles are compensating and I think it is a nice photography achievement.

Wxcelente trabajo, la tecnica e sde mprimara con el amnejod e la luz adecuado, en verdad una foto que merece estar entra las mejores

Where there is a conjestion of figures at the end of the sequence the first figure is 'late' and I'd expect to be logical that there would be a 'half figure' on the ramp .. perhaps the camera couldn't be started sooner to last the distance unless it is a movie sequence with a high shutter speed to freeze the action. Nit-picking I am for sure becuase I find it interesting and I should have said well done earlier. It would be easy enough to duplicate the first figure, decrease its size slightly and twist it to vertical.

This is a novelty photograph. Let me repeat what I have to very often say on this forum. What happens when the novelty wears off?

Two things I have to say before going any further. I don't give a hoot about snowboarding and I have seen better trick photography in Life magazine and elsewhere. This is to say that my sympathy for this photograph was thin from the start and remains so.

Taken as a mere picture and not as something you thrill over because you like snowboarding or are impressed with how-did-he-do-that? photographic technique, I feel it holds up pretty well. The snow and sky are nice. There a fine balance to the scene as a whole. This would hold up as pretty decent landscape without the snowboarder. In fact, the more I look at the image the more I wish that the snowboarder was not there.

But that is not fair. The snowboarder is very much there. And the snowboarder must be dealt with. So here is my final verdict. This would make a great wall-sized picture for a snowboarding lodge, if there is such a thing. It would be just the thing to look at after a hard day of snowboarding as you bit into your veal chop and drank your hot cider.

It's a splendid specially photo. Snowboarders would not dwell on photographic technique when viewing it. They would talk about snowboarding. That is as it should be.

The pattern on the board bottom does not turn along with the  body twist. This can be observed in the two central shots.  Moreover the  bottom of board is not in shadow as it should be. This photo is a joke I do not accept.