Wintertime Dirtjumping

I haven't got much to say about this one. Rain has stopped for a few days, allowing
us to shape our jumps, and even ride one line. I picked up my camera, set up my
flash, and clicked away. Trying a few different angles, and flash set-ups. 
Here's the end result.

Daarek with a 360 table attempt. 

Daarek with another 360. Different angle.

Trying nosedives.

Yare with a nice superman. It no longer looks like he's shagging his seat mid-air. Sweet.

It's been a while...

Yes, it's been a while. But then again, the weather has forces us indoors for the last few months now, and exams only made riding or photographing possibilities slimmer. 

Here's an old photograph I took way back in October. It's Fabio, doing a euro table at our trails.

He's been busting my balls over uploading it ever since I shot it, so this should put an end to that.

3rd place on the Landscape/Planete Libre photo contest!

From Landscape Magazine (translated by me):

On the 15th of September, Lanscape and Planete Libre started an official photocontest. The jury has decided between the 79 images that got sent in. We present the top 3 here. Taking pride in our initial succes, Landscape and Planete Libre will organise a more ambitious photocontest for 2009. Stay tuned!

Results:

1. Photog: Céline D'Orchymont
Rider: DAmien Huzezsch
Location: Cheptain Dirt Camp

2. Photog: Loic Jacquier
Rider: Gislain Puech
Location: Les Arcs

3. Photog: Dries Provinciael (that'd be me)
Rider: Joris Ottschytsch
Location: DirtE19, Edegem (BE)

(Landscape magazine, Issue 5 - Winter 2008)

The magazine is up for free download here. 

Here's the photograph itself:

SDG Dirt Finals: A4

I haven't got much to say about this really... I arrived a day late, hadn't slept enough so I was pretty worthless all day. Tried to ride a bit, but that failed. Then I tried to take some photo's, and that failed as well. 340 pictures taken, and these are the only ones that are remotely interesting. Photoshopped to hell and back to salvage them a bit. Ah well, I hope you like 'm a bit more than I do.

Benjie with an indian air, I think:

Joris with a 3whip:

Part of the crew:

Dimitris really is a sender:

He'd been doing sweet 3's all day. here's one of them:

(the flash you see isn't mine, it's Dennis Katinas' flash. Damn I need to get myself some pockedwizzards!)

They shook hands allright, my timing was just off...:

Sjors, A4 local, and MC for the day:

Dimitris:

I also forgot what this trick is called. Fuck! If you know, you know what to do...

Yare, with a Candybar:

Small dude. won the amateur best trick award too.

Apart from nohanded backflip, he also almost pulled a frontflip.

treinktschen:

Now THAT'S a toboggan!

Close calls...

Different view:

Sweet!

I'm not dead...

It's been a few months since I last posted. Many things happened. I had exams, which didn't go too well, my pc crashed, I went to the masters in Cologne, worked some more, went to Benidorm with the girlfriend, had some more exams which went even worse than the first ones, then I worked some more, and yesterday was the first day of the new schoolyear.
So now you're up to speed, I'll let you in on some of my plans:
-first of all, buy a new pc. Trying to edit photo's on this 4year old laptop is horrible, and any attempt at colorcorrection is thwarted by the bland monitor.
-get more photo's online again. I've been riding more and photographing less, but I've still got some gems slumbering on my harddrives, waiting to get out.

I'm also going to stop the whole monthly desktopbackgroundcalendarthings. It's been real fun, but it didn't work out. I will however be putting out desktopbackgrounds, but without the calendar, and not always on a monthly basis.

I'm working on some photo's now, untill they arrive, here's something to keep you keen:



I had recently bought a Canon AE-1, and decided to shoot some film. Three rolls (one of which came out unexposed) and some 40euro's processing cost later, the results haven't been all that great. I do like this one however, and I hope you do too.

Toby Forte, Hannu Cools, Quentin de Martelaere and others on MX trails

Last 3 weeks or so, we've seen some stellar weather in Belgium, and last monday it was still at it's peak. 27°C, blue sky, and some of the best trails in the country. Throw some seasoned international dirt pro's in the mix, and you've got yourself a banger session.
I'm not gonna waste any more words on this one, and just let the pictures speak for themselves.

(aan Hannu: je mag de foto's die hier staan gebruiken, zorg gewoon dat mijn naam vermeld blijft.)

Desktopbackground March

Last weekend, the weather was nice with the sun shining, so we went riding on our own trails at DirtE19, Edegem. I still didn't really have a picture for this month's background yet, so when the sun was going down I picked up my camera and went hunting for a nice photo. This kinda explains why almost every photo of that day was shot horizontally.

The light was great, the riders were great, the tricks were great, and our trails were great. I hope you'll think the same about the photo's, and especially about this month's background.

Last month I manually made about 10 different versions for all kinds of different resolutions, this month I'll upload 3, which should fit about everybody.

Here's a list of which version you should download:

1280/1024

4/3:
1600/1200
1400/1050
1280/960
1152/864
1024/768
800 /600

16/10:
2560/1600
1920/1200
1680/1050
1440/900
1280/800

RIGHT-CLICK THE LINK, CHOOSE "SAVE AS".

For a How-To on making this picture your desktopbackground, check this page.


Here's a small picture of what it looks like, together with the other shots taken that day: