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New gallery format
After much to-ing and fro-ing and given the fact that I’ve had a few days of broken-back imposed rest, I have redone the gallery layout on flipper.co.za . There are a number of reasons for this and maybe some will make sense and others wont. The first one to run in this style is the [...]
Cape Epic Stage 3
Stage 3 of the 2010 ABSA Cape Epic was going to be the mother of all stages … but unforseen circumstances in the weeks leading up to the race forced some changes. The loss of the major climb towards Gydo Pass above Prince Alfred’s Hamlet probably did reduce the climbing stats but i don’t think [...]
Cape Epic Stage 2
Stage 2 of the 2010 edition of the ABSA Cape Epic took the riders around some of the best singletrack trails around Ceres – at Eselfontein Farm. I’ve ridden there a good few times and its really worth the drive … but on Monday it was all about the riding. When shooting a race like [...]
Cape Epic Stage 1
The 2010 ABSA Cape Epic is the seventh edition of this great MTB stage race and my seventh time at the race … wow time does fly by. This year’s route is a little different to previous years in that it is centered further north than it has been before – around Ceres and Worcester [...]
Yes it’s February, but that was January
Been busy again … strange that. Proposals have been proposed for 2010 race season, Sven & my Chronology book #1 is in the final stages – at long last. Been a mission but definitely worthwhile project. I hope all you think the same. Oh and some photos have been shot. But not as many as [...]
Take a Tablet and call me in the morning
Happy New Year! Bit late but so are most of my blog posts! I’ve been super busy of late and have been up to all sorts of things. None of which pertain to my lack of blog entries until you add them all up and realise I haven’t had much time to put words to digitalness. [...]
What a week & then Peat wins Worlds!
Quite possibly one of the busiest weeks of the year for me … shot almost as much as a Cape Epic … but that all pales into insignificance when compared to the fact that Steve Peat has won the World Championships! Its not a shock like he came out of nowhere … its the fact [...]
On the road (yet) again
Yes I know I just wrote about that just a day or 2 ago but I feel this one is going to be one to document … Graz to Vienna by train, then short hop to Amsterdam. Long haul to Singapore then on to Sydney and then up to Cairns for the weekend to try [...]
Pause for reflection
Or maybe even cause for reflection … Canon 5DMKII 15mm fisheye, 1/800 @ f7.1 @ ISO800 Thats myself, Sven Martin and Damian Breach in Bromont … post and pre rain storms! Been a wet and wild couple of weeks in Canada … it seemed to rain on and off all the time. I’m sure it [...]
From Cover to Cover
So, May/June was a good few weeks for me cover wise … 5 that i know of. 2 UK, 1 South Africa, 1 Belgium and 1 Brazil. Not a bad haul really. It started off in Belgium when I got to Belgium for the World Cup in Houffalize and Christophe Meurice - the editor of Belgium’s [...]
Beer & Waffles
Time, once again, to catch up with my blog postings … not very good at being on time with these – not that there’s a schedule or anything. More often than not his is sent to the to do list of whatever GTD application i am trying to get to grips with to improve my [...]
Another World Cup in the bag
Well just getting over the highs and lows that is part and parcel of the life we lead on the road following the world cup circus. I lost yet another fisheye lens cap – they really do need to be designed better. Or maybe they shouldn’t be thrust through a crowd of hundreds while trying [...]
Cape Epic update
well looks like i got over the epic … some good Belgian beers will do that! here’s 3 of my favourites .. all on the same theme – aerial shadows. On stage 6 i had the morning in a Jet Ranger but we only had a total of 3 minutes of sunshine to take pics [...]
Big ol’ update
Well a lot has happened since the last post … yeah it’s been a while. Almost 2 months. Sorry about that. In the months since i last posted i have shot almost non-stop all over the show – all over the Western Cape with the Cape Epic, Pietermaritzburg for the SA Nationals and the opening round [...]
Door to the year
Apparently, at least according to Wikipedia, January is named for Janus, the mythological god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings … and as such is the door to the year. Which makes this image of an exquisite Alfa Romeo 8C all the more pertinent in what was to have been a more regular posting schedule for [...]
Merry Xmas
Its that time of year again … where has the time gone. I’ve spent literally days on end on planes this year, travelled more then 100,000 miles in the air alone, driven something like 25,000 kms and taken more than 53,000 photos – give or take a few here and there. But yet despite all [...]
2008 season is done!
Yes i know we have like 20-odd days left till 2009, but the bike industry has been in 2009 for a while now and this week it seems the printers are headed that way too – I’ve already shot my first 2009 cover and sent off images for next year’s first magazines. Something like this [...]
This week flipper are be mostly …
Sorry for the shameless Fast Show rip-off title. But I’ve been pretty busy. Since getting back from the World Cup Finals in Schladming last month I’ve managed to go on an awesome bike safari in Botswana with Cycle Mashatu – check out some pics here, shot the Cape Odyssey 5 day trail running race over [...]
New phone – new blog
Well the iPhone eventually made to the southern tip of Africa and to celebrate that fact I went out and got one on launch day. And what’s more I updated my blog software to help keep track of what’s going round here. More to follow. The image is from Molly and my ride round Koeberg [...]