while packing for the legendary (and once again last) annual “duke” mtb race – this year being dubbed “duke of trash” since the location has been a former waste dump – i pondered bout taking the LX3 with me.. mh.
seconds later i had unpacked the nikon gear and filled my bag with a sony R1, some light and well, the LX3 – so no mirror-flapping for me that day..

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some shots from a 5 hours mtb-race – not too far from home – actually planned on takin part myself, but weekends at this time of the year are rather packed.. :(

in the secret woods of regau i’ve shot the team-photos for the team muskelkater – here’s a quick selection of the better ones..

this year’s second race of the “schnecke wintercup”-series, taken place in andlersdorf, a village in the flat east of vienna. it’s been a foggy november-morning, so i put up a little darker and less colorful conversions this time..

all done with d700+50/1.4

also see lars’ view of this (but omit the first pic :))

back in mid august i’ve been down at the far south-east end of nowhere austria, to cover a small but legendary 4X-race for the organizer and a bikeboard report.

as legendary as the race, is the fact that it always rains at this event, heavily – as in floodlike. so it was predicted for this year either, but against all forecasts, after 5 minutes of dripping around noon the day turned to the complete opposite.. still we got our dose of mud after dark, when the after-race party with the fabulous binder-krieglstein on stage took place.