With snowboarding, as with any outdoor lifestyle, distinct styles of photography exist to document every aspect of the game. There are those photographers who specialize in in-your-face technicolor action; others seem to gravitate toward black-and-white in the daytime and color photography at night. There are portrait photographers who draw out the personality of a rider in both posed and candid moments. Then there are the lensmen who aim to capture a bigger picture—scenic images that convey the landscape first, and the rider as a part of that landscape. Lensmen like Austrian-born Peter Mathis.
—from Eric Blehm’s introduction to the Living Landscapes: The photography of Peter Mathis