No Wasted Moves

What better follow up to shooting the Mont 24Hr than to get out the very next weekend and shoot the 24Hr Solo Champs.

These crazy girls and guys slogged it out around Mt. Majura in sunshine during the day and rain during the night.

I’m pretty sure I managed to get a shot of everyone competing which I was pretty happy about. Of course this is much easier to do when it’s the same folks going around the track and not swapping out for team mates like in the Mont.

My next personal challenge is to not only shoot the riders, fun as that is, but also spend a lot more time around Event HQ finding willing subjects in the support crews. Action shots are certainly gratifying, but looking over the results of the last two weekends, there is a void in my coverage. The off track happenings are missing and my album is much poorer for it.

Here’s some highlights, and as always contact me with your rider number if you’d like to see any pics I have of you.

Last weekend I had a fantastic time shooting the Mont 24 hour Mountain Bike event at Sparrow Hill, just out of Canberra.

It was obvious that everyone was having a great time – despite the grueling physical challenge people were putting themselves through.

Highlights in this slideshow below, plus check the details in the set here to see if I have a shot of you or someone you know!

Bugger, originally uploaded by geoffconet.

Saw this unfold at the Carillion as we were sitting on the other side of the lake.

There was nothing I could do except take some pics, and definitely nothing they could have done. By the time they got to the bike, it would have caused more injury than anything to try and stop it.

Not much you can do except laugh about it. And hope they hose themselves down – the lake has been closed for the past 2 weeks due to blue-green algae infection… Yikes.

Went out to get some photos before Floriade finished on the weekend.

While the flowers looked like they’d taken a bit of a beating over the last few weeks, it was a gorgeous day to be out and about.

All in all I was pretty happy with the results.

Floriade 2008 on flickr.