“Large railhop photo of Marnold that never got used for anything but I was hyped on it. The landing was so shitty for this hop with it being soft dirt in between plants and tree’s. The run up also had issues being such a tight cut in but Marnold got it sorted 2nd shot. You can download the image here to freshen up your desktop background.” Cooper Brownlee
“I’ve been really fortunate to meet up with Ryan Lloyd, Luke Peeters and the crew at Gorge Road Trail in New Zealand during their very last hour of filming for the United video « Aesthetics »… Many thanks to Nathan (the Boss of this piece of paradise) to allow me to snap couple pics here…” –Vince Perraud
Tagged Gorge Road, Luke Peeters, New Zealand, Ryan Lloyd, United, Vince Perraud
George Marshall uploaded a gallery of photos from Round 1 of the Street Series that went down this past weekend in Cape Town, South Africa. Check it out on The Albion’s website.
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Tagged Cape Town, George Marshall, South Africa, Street Series, The Albion
Check out this quick behind the scenes with Albert Mercado and Justin Kosman shooting on the back of his 1973 International Harvester Scout II.
Agus from Buenos Aires emailed me the other day with a photograph and some tragic news to go with it. His friend German “Bob” Torre had passed away unexpectedly and this photograph was the last to be made of him.
“That was my first picture of 2014, and my last picture of him. The first time we thought of shooting that barspin, we were passing by the spot (on the way to local public park, were we go pretty much everytime we ride), but he was with a headache, so, we continued our way to the park, to meet our friends.
The next weekend, while passing again by the spot, we talked about doing it, but it was waaay too hot, like being out in the desert, and none of us was in a riding mood, and I did not want to push him to do it, so, we, again, continued our way to the park to meet our friends like every time we are out riding.
A few hours later that day, the sun was coming down, and we were all chilling and doing nothing at the park because of the heat, so at a moment, we felt like, lets do something, instead of nothing. I looked at him, and said ‘lets go, lets take it’, just one second after I finished talking, he started pedalling, so we begun our ride back to the spot. As soon as we got there, he was like ‘find the angle you want and let me know when you are ready’, I just said OK to him, but thought to myself ‘Hah, this guy is going to do a crazy barspin over a crete structure, with a decent bunnyhop height and all, and asks ME to let him know when I am ready’.
A moment later, after looking the lading spot from above the structure, he went back, started pedalling up the run, hopped, throw bars/catch bars, landing it perfectly.
The picture was taken exactly half way the rotation, perfect bars position, and his too, nothing of that careless leaned-back style most do, he was as precise as a swiss clock. as soon as I put my eyes on the LCD screen, I hear him say ‘Let me know if it wasn’t good I can do it again, no problem’. Things like that happened everytime I went out with the camera when riding.”
The homie Zachary Honahan has a photo gallery up at The Union, check it out.
Winner! Łukasz Wysokiński by Łukasz Suszczenko
The first official Push It A Stop photo contest has come to an end, and with nearly one hundred entries from around the world, it was fairly difficult to judge. I narrowed it down to fifteen finalists then sent them out to Gutstains, Devin Feil, Nick Jones and Chris Mortenson to get the final tally. I have to say though, that as soon as the winning entry was submitted, I knew it would be the panel’s favorite. The winning photographer is receiving a prize package from Push It A Stop and the rider will get gear from TCU.
Second and third places-
Second place – Bevan Cowan by Ryan Foley
Third place – Seth Kimbrough by Jeremie Infelise
A few honorable mentions-
Axel Constant by Mikael Cardin
Anton Williams-Watene by Ciaran Fill
Van Charles self-timer
Michael Ioannidis by Mallioris Panagiotis
Thanks to everyone who participated. Don’t be discouraged if you didn’t make the list- there will be many more contests in the future! The next contest will be video based and announced at the beginning of next week.
Photographer Daniel Benson has a photo gallery and interview up on The Diggest. I grew up looking at Benson’s BMX work in all the UK magazines so it was refreshing to see some of his work outside of BMX as well. Check it out here.
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Tagged albion, BMX, daniel benson, Photography
Hit up the Cult site to check out a gallery I shot on a weekend trip to Woodward with Scott, Russ Barone, Grant Germain, Steven Ocasio, and Tafari Smith.
On February 8th of last year Tony Malouf and I got up around dawn, and we headed across town to meet up with Bobby Kanode in hopes of filming one of the last clips for Tony’s BSD Beverage frame promo. Fortunately, the spot was completely deserted that morning. Unfortunately, we discovered a sizable puddle right at the edge of the roof. I figured that was the end of that, but Tony was optimistic that he could sweep the water off and still get it done.
While Tony was prepping the roof, I got busy setting up the photo. For those interested in the technical side of things, I shot with a Canon 7D at 1/400th at F7.1 with three flashes. I didn’t take notes that day, but as I remember, the main light, an Einstein 640 at 1/2 power, was in the grass several feet to the left of the concrete pad which was about 10 feet to the left of the frame. A second Einstein 640 at 1/2 power was placed directly in line with Tony’s trajectory, roughly twice as far away from the action, at the end of the concrete pad way to the left of the way of the frame. The third flash was a Vivitar 285 on a low power setting (1/4, but maybe 1/16) near the building to my right aimed up at Tony to serve as a bit of fill light.
Once the photo was all set up, and the roof looked about as good as it was going to get, Tony let Bobby and I know he was ready to give it a shot. Tony wanted to throw the bars on the very first go but ended up straight hopping it with ease instead. The second try was nearly flawless; Tony popped, threw and caught the barspin perfectly, but one of his feet slipped off the pedal when he landed. The next try (as seen in the TGF Merry VXmas edit) was not so lucky. One of Tony’s hands failed to get a solid grasp back on the bars, and he crumpled to the ground on impact. Now dealing with a severely sprained ankle it seemed like our day was over. Tony is a tough kid though and was determined to leave the spot successful. The last try was accompanied with a pair of slipped pedals and an ankle that couldn’t take anymore.
Regardless of whether Tony was able to ride away from the trick cleanly I was truly impressed by the commitment he showed that day. A lot of riders would have given up when they realized an early morning mission was their only chance at filming the barspin. Others would have stopped when they found a puddle on the roof. And even more would have called it quits after they rolled their ankle over. Now I am just hoping that one of these days Tony texts me to let me know that he “got dar barspin.”
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