Showing posts with label fontana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fontana. Show all posts

8:37 AM Fontana City National

Was in Fontana this past weekend shooting the 1st "real" mountain bike race of the year. Head over to this gallery on the Giant Facebook fan page for a few pics of the Giant folks. They all killed it as usual.

On a side note I don't generally shoot people crashing, mostly because I don't like crashing and I cringe when I know it's happening so I don't press the shutter. On Sunday I went ahead and shot a few crashes during the DH race and ended up keeping the one below. My reason for shooting the crashes was mostly due to the fact that 80% of the experts coming through crashed through here so as I was setting up for Duncan and Jared I needed to shoot something.





Fontana

6:24 PM Fontucky

Ok, here goes... First post. I tried this blog thing awhile back and it didn't stick. This go round we'll see how I do. I made it an integral part of my newly updated site (it's almost done.) Here's my goal on this. At least one post a week, and it must include a photo from that week, and some insight into the photo- probably some technical aspects or "what was I thinking." If I do a second post it must be from the archive and have a story.

So first pic....

Fontucky. I only raced here a few times (once in jean shorts and a undershirt.) First big race of the season and they made the course something I would have loved in the mid nineties when I was fit. Steep climbs, fairly technical and lots of singletrack. Proper mountain biking if you weren't doing laps- even with the laps it would have been good. The photo I picked pretty much says the Fontana story.

Single track? check
Weeds? check
Rocks in odd places? check
Jersey wide open? check

The technical junk- I was running around like a mad man to get as many different looks as I could and on the last lap I set-up in the "pro" section of one of the downhill areas. Quantum flash is set up camera left at 1/8 power with just the bare reflector. 1/250 @F11 iso 100 @90mm.

Enjoy:



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