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no mirror, no cry

markus — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:13:11 +0000

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..

on the dump i happened to find an elinchrom quadra right next to the channel of my own transmitter (thanks step ;)), so some shots were lit with that – others with one or two of my SB80s.. unfortunately the sky went grey a little too early, so i couldn’t take advantage of the “no-x-sync” shutters for too long..

mtb team-shooting

markus — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:39:30 +0000

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..

4X pichla 08

markus — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:00:31 +0000

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.

the italian job

markus — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:11:33 +0000

.. more or less business as usual, just with some ‘minor’ differences.. a mtb-marathon with rather little (just close to 300) participants, 500kms to reach it, and best of all – getting to know about it just some hours before having to depart..

so i went to sauris/ita alone, arriving there at 2 in the morning, getting up at 6 again, without knowing the track at all, trying to get a plan, looking for useable spots, and being readily set up there after the start at 9 .. luckily the weather was quite the opposite of what was to expect in advance.

it all went surprisingly smooth&easy, i quickly found what i was looking for on the track, set up my remotes and was ready to go well before the race started. all remotes worked flawlessly, and timing was perfect, so for less than 300 participants i produced more than 3000 photos, a mean of 10 photos per rider.. fortune favours fools :) ..

back home, 500kms straight, and done.

kraftwerktrophy 08

markus — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:35:07 +0000

the sequel of a legend.. after skipping one year due to organizational troubles a legendary 24h-roadbike-race, the “kraftwerktrophy” was reborn, relocated away from the name-giving powerplant of theiss to donnerskirchen.. a small, still great race, with an even greater spirit, let’s hope there’ll be some more participants the next time..

as always with 24h-races, i did a lot of testing which mostly takes more time – one doesn’t have at “normal” races – but also results in a lot similar photos, so not too much variation in there.. been there from before dusk till after dawn, where the earlier was nice, but the latter quite boring and colorless..

winter’s over (not)

markus — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:54:04 +0000

even if there’s usually no more snow in the valleys, at the end of winter some crazy sportsmen find their way to the dachstein, an austrian peak of ~3000m surrounded by a glacier to take part at the “Dachstein Extreme”, a ski mountaineering race..

it’s by far not as common a sport in austria as one should think, compared to france or spain it’s actually still quite unknown – but the organizer astc.at does his best to change this.

conditions were extremely varying, though in the beginning looked especially bad – climbing to my first spot i already saw myself being found as “oetzi” with a funny bonnet 8) – but by the time the race was started the sky turned blue and i even got a little sunstroke at my second spot, directly on the glacier..

the rest of the photos (including the one’s of my fellow sportografs) can be found here.

ps: thanks for the bonnet, karin ;)