Pictures from the Pool: Riding

Posted by Duran
Filed in Flickr Forum
June 19, 2008

So here we are with another edition of Pictures from the Pool, where this time, I feature a couple of neat fast shutter speed photos from the seemingly endless BR Flickr Group. Coincidentally, both feature people riding things, and both (completely unintentionally) are taken near my old 'hood of East Van.

I'm loving the great job on the horsie photo on the left, where you can just see the raw power being generated, especially emphasized with the striations in the muscles. Even with the background blur from brilliant pan shot, you can make out the grain elevator of New Brighton Park, and the blueish green mountains synonymous with North in this city. Fantastic "rule-of-thirds" composition and great colours make this photograph really stand out to me. The photgrapher, elvis_hitler2000 is a regular on the BR Flickr site, and can be found in "Helta, BC", eating his favourite cheeses while reading a nice dose of Hemmingway.

On the next one, everyone's favourite House look-alike, Mark Klotz makes this extreme BMX biker seem like he's been taking some Powerthirst. The well executed crop in Sweet Jumps captures the rider in mid-air over what seems to me like the intersection of Hastings and Boundary, making it seem like he's gettin' more air than the Hellevator in the background. I've been following Mark Klotz for a while on Flickr as he does his freelance photography thing, and he's easily one of the best contributors to our pool.

A big thanks goes out to these two deftly skilled photographers, and to everyone else who's added to the pic count on our Flickr site!

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cool stuff Duran.
some funky formatting happens when i click "continue reading" on this post. I'm not sure if it's just my computer or not

Posted by: anon at June 19, 2008 2:49 PM | Quote Comment

The picture on the right is not a BMX'er, it's a mountain biker. You can tell by how gross it looks. Mountain biker's should just get BMX's if they want to do this stuff because the MTN BKR's just make it look bad. Oh, and we don't use the word Extreme anymore. Now that they have things like Extreme Yogurt, and Extreme high heels, it's kinda just not cool. Not that it ever was.

Posted by: TJ at June 19, 2008 2:53 PM | Quote Comment

Whoa, looks like you're right. Firefox (IMHO, the superior browser) works fine though. I'll investgate this further and report back.

Posted by: Duran at June 19, 2008 2:54 PM | Quote Comment

Check it don't wreck it. It should work now. And perhaps I should have spelt it as XTREME. I was using that word quite sarcastically though. My most sincere apologies to all you true BMX'ers out there that are XTREME or not so XTREME. Keep on doing what you do and do the dew.

Posted by: Duran at June 19, 2008 3:06 PM | Quote Comment

Thank you very much Duran! Coming home and discovering my work has been featured on Beyond Robson, completely makes my day. Much appreciated! Keep up the good work.

Cheers!

Posted by: Mark Klotz at June 19, 2008 6:11 PM | Quote Comment

Great selections. The horsie pan shot is tack sharp and ferocious, damn. Other guy must be on xtreme gatorade or something...cool shot.

Posted by: david at June 20, 2008 5:11 PM | Quote Comment