I have had a good week

I'm really pleased with what I have shot this past week.

goo, goo g'joob

Night Ranger in Winter Park

All I'm going to say about shooting Night Ranger in Winter Park the other day is that it is way more fun to shoot a band with personality and one that knows how to have a good time on stage.  Here's the proof:

And they can still play, by the way.

goo, goo g'joob

Crankworx Colorado, my favorite weekend

Greg Watts launches from the "Fruit Bowl"

It was another busy, event filled weekend last weekend highlighted by Crankworx Colorado at Winter Park Resort.  This event has been a visual blessing for me the past two years (resulting in award-winning images each year) and this year was no different.

The event is comprised of cross country, dual slalom, downhill, super downhill races and the marquee event, slopestyle.

Slopestyle is what has produced the most interesting images for me the past two years, because of the jumps and tricks performed by the riders.

The slopestyle course designers come up with some variations to the course each year, so I'm always curious to see what they have in store for the riders.  This year's special feature was the "Fruit Bowl"--two elevated ramps that would require the riders to jump onto the first one, jump from the first to the second, and then a large jump off of the second one to clear the gap to the landing.

Each year, without fail, the riders complain about the course during the first practice session until someone tackles the toughest of the features and they realize it can be done.  Then things get interesting as the riders start to figure out what tricks they are going to do on the various jumps.

Here are a few of my other favorites:

Cameron Zink loses control on the final jump

A new event for this year was the Intergalactic Pond Crossing Championship.  Riding a bike 140 feet across a pond on 2x8s supported by inner tubes proved to be very difficult for the competitors, but very entertaining for the spectators.  

Tim Allen makes the winning run.

After a long day of work I still had one more stop to make...a mountainboard demo at Hideaway Park in Winter Park.  When I first pulled up I was worried that I had missed it, but was fortunate that the boarders were doing one more show.  I did as I usually do, I shot some safe shots of the event, then noticed that there were some interesting clouds made even more interesting as the sun was setting.  I realized this would make for an ideal silhouette.

Probably my favorite images from the weekend, but not from Crankworx this time.

Another successful and productive Crankworx weekend.

Goo, goo g'joob