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April 2014 PHOTO.GP Desktop Calendar

April’s hi-res desktop wallpaper calendar from PHOTO.GP features Valentino Rossi leading the pack at Losail.

Por Fuera Halo

When I use a flash in pit lane, I set it to Rear Shutter, which means that the flash fires just as the shutter closes. For long exposures this is the only setting I use because if the flash fires when the shutter opens, movement in the image appears to be moving backwards. Last night […]

Hot!

Got an email this morning from someone who asked why I’d not posted a glowing brake disc photo yet. I did post the odd image of one rotor glowing while the other is not, but if you’re after both lit up nicely, here is Ben Spies in Turn 1. One of the interesting things about […]

This is Casey Not Crashing

I have mixed feelings about crash photos. They’re usually interesting to look at, but they also often document some sort of injury. I try to make photographs that show what is astounding and beautiful about motorcycle racing, and injuries are not beautiful. Crashes aren’t beautiful either, but they can be astounding when you see frame […]

Once More Into The Night

T. S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month, but for grand prix fans, it’s November when the season ends. We’re eight weeks away from the final pre-season test at Losail International Circuit just outside Doha, Qatar, and a week after that test, the first race of the 2011 season will take place under […]

Fire In The Desert

The story of Rossi’s glowing brake discs For a year I had a unique photograph. As far as I could tell, after searching everywhere I could think of, I was the only one who’d gone to the entrance of Turn 1 at Losail in 2009 and captured the glowing brakes as the MotoGP riders as […]

In the club, at least for now…

Instead of staying in a hotel this year, I’m sharing an apartment or sorts (it’s a room in a Residence Hotel) with a fellow photographer, Andrew Wheeler, whose work has probably had more influence on me than any other sports shooter. I’ve known him in person for several years and it was largely his offer […]

Qatar Redux

I used to think that San Francisco to Europe was a long flight. But San Francisco to Qatar? When you get to Europe, you’re almost halfway there. From take-off at SFO to landing in Doha (with the odd stay on he plane lay-over in Riyadh): 23 hours of travel time. To make that trip you […]

Day of Stars Auction a Success!

On June 30th I wrote about the Riders benefit auction at MDK in Redwood City, which was a kind of preliminary event in preparation of the Day of Stars on the Thursday before the USGP at Laguna Seca, where a much larger crowd of racing enthusiasts was anticipated. For that event I’d donated an 18×24” […]

Riders for Health

I’ve been speaking to some of you lately about my recent involvement with an organization called Riders for Health, and if I’ve not shared this link with you already, I invite you to check out this short video which explains better than I what Riders does that is so important. Though I had heard about […]