Last week we introduced Part I of Epic Unseen, the section where we take you to the cutting room floor and show you a handfull of images that didn't make the final edit. This week we give you a small peek into some behind the scenes encounters that happened along the way and give you a better look inside the Cortez, Zaca Station and Castillo Ranch shoots.

Unknown to Johnny Public, but Vurb's infamous "Bread Van" got TKO'ed early on and we were forced to take on other means of transportation in order to make EPIC into reality.

After the Bread Truck bit the dust, and before picking up Mighty Whitey, this was our means of transportation. By any means possible, right?

With the exception of printing the actual DVDs, Vurb pretty much streamlines all its business activities...which reluctantly include 4am print sessions to get helicopter graphics ready.

In conclusion to our last post (Epic Unseen Pt.1) we left off with the Trey Canard shoot. After three days of rain we set sail from Oklahoma to beautiful Cortez, Colorado, home to Eli Tomac. From a scenic standpoint this was by far our most beautiful shoot. But one that also nearly didn't happen. After barely escaping the deadly twist of Mother Nature in Oklahoma we got caught again on our way north, this time in an ice storm. After pulling over on the side of the road to fill up on fuel and coffee at 3am photographer/rally car driver John Parkinson decided he would take the wheel. Dangrous mistake. This dude drives with the same reckless abandon on the ice filled roads of the Rocky Mtns. as he does in L.A. rush hour. How we made it out of this trip alive we may never know.

While Cortez may have been the most scenic location in EPIC, Zaca station in Northern California isn't too shabby either. This was the location for the Landon Currier shoot, and definitely one we had trouble picking just one photo for. The setting for the shoot was perfect and after first cut we still had at least 15 images that were possibilities to make the book. See below for a few never before seen images that didn't make the book.

The Zaca Station shoot with Currier and the Castillo Ranch shoot with Jessy Nelson actually took place only about 12 hours apart. However, due to a slip up by the still photographer the actual Castillo image in the book almost never happened. As we began the shoot I noticed by memory card was full, having only about a dozen or so images I decided to dump it onto my desktop and continue on with a fresh card. Well, it's a good thing that happened because the images from the rest of the day never made it onto a hard drive, leaving us only a dozen images to choose from. The first image you see below is the one that actually made the book, the one below that was our only other choice. To this day we are still unable to locate the rest of the images from Castillo.

If you haven't picked up a copy of EPIC yet, we highly suggest you do so.  They make great Christmas presents as well!

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