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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 [...]
Rest in Peace Granny
A sad day here … my wee Granny passed away last night. She had been quite ill for a while now – at least a year on and off. I was last in Glasgow in June 2008 for the Fort William World Cup. I drove up for the day and back again and the same [...]
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 [...]