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“FOR A MAN TO CHALLENGE DARKNESS HE NEED ONLY BE ARMED WITH A SINGLE
SPARK.” —MARK W. BOYER PHOTO: STEVE SHANNON
MONSTER IN THE DARK A PHOTOGRAPHER’S QUEST FOR MIDNIGHT LIGHT
IN THE UTTER DARKNESS OF MIDNIGHT, stage lighting blinded Blair Trotman as he launched a Wave Sport Recon off the edge of the visible earth, plunging into the abyss 60 feet below the lip of Sutherland Falls. Then, from behind a pile of high-end cam- era equipment, someone told Trotman it was time for take two. And then three. “Blair was an absolute trooper and hit the
falls three times that night to ensure we got the shots we were looking for,” says Steve Shannon, who snapped this photo while
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tagging along on a video shoot for Dark Wa- ter, a short film by Kelsey Thompson. The lights, dragged to the river by a crew
of Revelstoke locals, gave the falls a differ- ent feel than the sunlight that lit Trotman’s practice runs earlier that day. It was hardly enough for Shannon to capture the mid- night descent. “This was primarily a shoot for Kelsey, so
I was limited to shooting with the available light from his filming lights. This was ex- tremely challenging, as you don’t need as
bright of lights for shooting video as you do for capturing still images. I had to push my equipment to the absolute limits.” He joined Trotman in the water for a mo-
ment, though not on purpose. “There were a lot of extra people milling around, getting in the way of shots and making things fairly difficult,” says Shannon. “I ended up explor- ing alternate angles by paddling to the other side of Blanket Creek…let’s just say I got a little wet.” Around 1 a.m., as one of the most unique
shoots of his career was wrapping up, Shan- non grabbed this shot of Trotman, standing below the falls “eyeing up the monster in the dark he had just destroyed.” EMMA DRUDGE
DIGITAL EXTRA: Click here to watch
Dark Water, the short film that inspired this shoot.
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