A bit of Motocross action...

[ukaskew]

Took a break from Combe today to visit the local round of the ACU British MMX Championship just down the road near Frome.

I'm still picking dust out of my teeth, nose, mouth and hair now, but it was worthwhile, cracking day, a few pics...

More here: http://chrisharrison.smugmug.com/gallery/8326459_bhNtQ/1/545622595_fFRti

 

[Coby.]

Cracking Pics but must be very difficult to take good shots of??

 

[rory182]

good pics, sidecars are mental on a track let alone off road lol

 

[Revels]

Superb as usual! :approve:

I really need to try some variation!

 

[ukaskew]

Cracking Pics but must be very difficult to take good shots of??

Incredibly hard, they're moving all over the place, epic amounts of dust everywhere, one moment they are flying at 60mph, another they are doing about 7mph around a corner.

It didn't help that I've only got a stupidly long lens (120-300) as something in the range of 50-150 would have been better for 90% of the shots I wanted to get.

 

[jesus]

Awesome pics!

 

[dunganick]

last ones a stunner mate, motorcross is on my list of things to do at the moment. Looks like it gives you plenty of room to experiment.

Once again a superb set. The amount of events you make it to makes me jealous.

 

[Ian]

Think I've seen the official togs' shots on TP? I like these more though, so sharp and better composed.

 

[powey]

cracking pics, bet there was some good racing too

 

[ukaskew]

last ones a stunner mate, motorcross is on my list of things to do at the moment. Looks like it gives you plenty of room to experiment.

Once again a superb set. The amount of events you make it to makes me jealous.

1/30 was my weapon of choice, got a few keepers (two of them above are 1/30 iirc) out of those experiments, so that was cool.

As you say though, loads of room to play around. Fast shutter speeds are just as effective (if not more so) as they are clearly moving at pace due to the angles and mud spray, unlike a car would appear with a really fast shutter speed. Just be careful with your equipment if you do go, I spent 30 minutes cleaning my camera and lens when I got home, it was actually brown even though I have a good storm cover for it all!

I do seem to do well with events, although I never made it to Prescott this weekend so I don't have it all my own way! Hard trying to find a balance with the other half, she's got a very busy career though so thankfully it usually works out quite nicely, and I make sure it's only April-September pretty much, I don't bother with Rallys etc so at least half of the year is completely free.

 

[powey]

what storm cover you got? how muchos?

 

[ChrisPearson]

Awsome pics

I really need to get back into it

 

[rory182]

you photographers should head to Fort William for the Mountain Bike World Cup on the practice days before its too crowded and snap the Worlds best Downhillers practicing on the course, I was amazed at the pics I was getting with a lowly camera phone so imagine you could get some amazing shots.

It's in 3 weeks time I think

 

[ukaskew]

what storm cover you got? how muchos?

StormJacket SLR Medium (although to be honest I need Large now I have the Sigma 120-300), cost about £30 on Warehouse Express.

Expensive, but imo has paid for itself many times over.

 

[p@blo]

Nice shots, mx/sx is quality

 

[Nafoff]

you've been down leighton again.......

doh...missed it.

 

[Englebert]

Cool!

 

[_Tom]

God i miss my cr..

 

[Andy.]

Stunning shots!

 

[ukaskew]

you've been down leighton again.......

doh...missed it.

Yup, spotted it last minute so headed down at lunchtime. Not been since I met up with you a couple of years ago there, forgot how much fun it is.

Unfortunately it was a different 'car park' this year (left instead of right off the lane), I bottomed out severely in my Korean pimp wagon. So glad I didn't still have the Cup, would have been bye bye carbon splitter.

 

[jams]

As rory said, you should try and get to the downhill world cup, i got some good snaps on my camera phone when I went a few years back so god knows how good the pics would be you get. Ideally you'd need a shorter lense though.

This year the world cup is 6-7 June with practise on the 5th if your interested.