Archive for the 'Extreme Sports' Category

Using External Flash- Practice Makes Perfect

Equipped also with a professional grade lens ( The excellent Olympus 12-60SWD ), I’ve taken to the local slopes of Misgav forest, where a downhill competition took place. Continue reading

Amazing backcountry skiing photos

This set of amazing back country skiing photos is a must for every fan of alpine sports, extreme sports and outdoors enthusiast. Photos by Ian Mackie Continue reading

Mountain bike photography using a wireless flash

If you’re seriously considering going into some action photography- an external flash will provide a serious upgrade to your photography abilities. A remote controlled (wireless) flash will expand that even more, as you can see from my experiments with the Olympus FL-36R external flash. Continue reading

Roof N’ Style Avoriaz- Biking off buildings

On July 15th a unique form of Slope Style biking competition took place in Avoriaz, France. Aimed to push riders to their limit while displaying big-air capabilities, 360’s, back flips, drops and gaps- this event has been literally upgraded. Continue reading

Gravity Only- a Chainless DownHill MTB contest

On May 3rd, a unique and original sporting event took place in Manara, Israel. A group of friends, avid mountain bikers, arranged a mountain bike downhill competition on the northern cliffs. Nothing unusual on its own, only that this time around, competitors had to apply a slight modification to their bikes- take off the chain and then complete the run.

Sounds easy perhaps, as going downhill shouldn’t require too… Continue reading