The cold weather reappeared in North Yorkshire yesterday, bringing snow, strong winds and high seas.
Playing with dolphins…
September saw me on an epic journey to Portugal to spend six days photographing sailing on the Algarve… You can’t knock that… Last time I went sailing for more than a few hours, it was from Falmouth in the UK to Lagos, Portugal via the notorious Bay of Biscay. It was mostly cold, violent, hard…
GoPro Launches HD HERO2
You know that little turn to camera that you can stick anywhere, shoots amazing HD video and not bad stills, is water, shock and idiot proof… well it’s just got a whole lot better! GoPro have just announced an update to the HD HERO line in the form of the HD HERO 2. And it’s…
Canon EOS 1D X: The sport photographers dream camera?
So Canon have announced their new flagship camera, the EOS 1D X. It’s designed to replace both the EOS 1D IIIs and the EOS 1D IV. Taking the best of both camera’s, giving them an injection of steroids and moulding them in to a new super camera. You will no longer have to choice between…
The British Summer….
Yesterday it rained rather heavily, in fact it poured for most of the day… I lay awake last night listening to the rain beating down on the roof above… and this morning I sipped my coffee watching it run down the windows…. It’s August, it should be red hot outside, I should be in shorts…
Cricket in Scarborough…?
Wednesday saw me driving down the coast to the beach town of Scarborough. A place known for its ice creams, trashy amusement arcades, beaches and surf… not so well know for County Cricket, but Cricket it indeed has! Every year Scarborough Cricket Club plays host to the Scarborough Cricket Festival, and Yorkshire move from Headingley…
A quick hop to Antwerp
I’ve been on the road now more or less continuously since early June… It slowly takes it’s toll… I get a couple of days at home, which are taken up with admin, sleeping and if I’m lucky a quick spin on my bike… and then I’m back in the van and off to the next…
Bradley Wiggins secures the National Road Race Championship…
If you were lost in Northumberland on Sunday and passed within 20 miles of the village of Stamfordham you might have wondered what the hell was going on. The roads were lined with hundreds of abandoned cars and crowds in the thousands stood screaming on the verges, as the best road racers in Britain tore…
UCI Mountain Bike World Cup: Downhill, Fort William…
After much packing, making last minute adjustments to the van, cleaning bikes, and frantically ordering a new camera, yesterday afternoon I eventually turned the van North up the A1 and with a couple of stops to pick up my assistants (bag carriers) for the weekend, headed over the boarder and in to Scotland! A target…
The Exhibitionists: Video Promo
Fridge Productions have just realised the latest promo video for the Exhibitionists, it features me running round the Pro Sprint Eliminator at the Dalby Mountain Bike World Cup last week. I was wired up with a mic for the whole event, and had to give a running commentary. It was a strange experience, something totally…
