Driving down the hill into Kinlochleven, was like driving into Narnia. Temperatures had plummeted throughout the North of Scotland and snow had fallen overnight, transferring this remote town, known for it’s history of aluminium smelting and more recently the Ice Factor National Ice Climbing Centre, into a picture perfect postcard scene. The sun was yet to rise,…
MBUK Big Ride Guide – Rothiemurchus
A couple of months ago, I joined Max Darkins from Mountain Bike UK magazine along with Sally and Bruce from Mikes Bikes in Aviemore for a ride through Rothiemurchus in the Cairngorms of Scotland. It was that time of year when the leaves were turning and mud could be found in epic proportions, but the…
New GoPro Hero 3+ Black & Silver
GoPro have just announced an update to the awesome HERO 3 Black and Silver addition cameras, with some exciting updates across both models. This isn’t a quantum leap forward like it was between the Hero 2 and the Hero 3, which essentially resulted in an almost new product, but a tweak in design and features. If…
The Canon 5D MKIII is officially here…!
The Camera we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived, today Canon have officially announced the latest addition to its full-frame DSLR lineup, the Canon EOS 5D MK III, not as had been expected a replacement, but an updated variant meant to sit between the 5D MK II, workhorse of four years and the company’s soon to arrive EOS-1D X….
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…
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…
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…
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…
Fort William 2011… its coming….
The 2011 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup will descend on Fort William in Scotland for its 10th visit between the 3rd and 5th June 2011, thats less than three weeks away… here’s the new promo video… See you there! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnU65DjaEk4&feature=player_embedded
