Capturing 'flow' in mountain bike photography
I just can't get enough of great bike photography. Marco Toniolo is a free spirit mountain adventurer form Italy who happens to take great photos. I found him in my travels to Linda Morgi's blog (that's two things I've referenced from her blog...time to add a link) in a post that went over her feed, but seems to be pulled from the site itself.
Back to the reason I draw your attention to Marco Toniolo's photography. One of the things that is difficult to capture about mountain biking - either in photography or video - is the flow of the trail and the rider. The Collective is the master at capturing this feeling on video. To my mind, Toniolo does an excellent job of this in photography.
Check out the following galleries:
Trail riding at Lake Garda
Marzocchi riders at Lake Garda
Nepal Expedition
Riding with Hans Rey in the Phillipines
Graham, you are absolutely right!
We have a "picture of the month" section on our website and Marco provided shots for this section quite often - some of his recent shots which were picture of the month can be seen here:
http://fotos.mtb-news.de/fotos/tag/toniolo
cheers
Tom
Posted by: Thomas | March 11, 2007 at 09:38 AM
Just gotta say, Thanks for the info ! Great pics
Posted by: Walt | March 11, 2007 at 06:37 PM
Ooh, nice photography. I like this stuff too.
Posted by: Fritz | March 12, 2007 at 06:35 PM
Mountain bike "flow" is much more difficlut to show than road- on the road. A photographer has the "road" already laid out, sometimes all the way to the horizon,when the hammer drops, the peloton snakes along, many times making the photo itself. But on dirt, with trees and other obstacles, showing the flow of a trail is more difficult. Props to a photographer who can do it.
Posted by: fasterjim | March 19, 2007 at 10:44 AM
He has a nice photo blog going on too. Make sure to check out his RedBull Illume pic: http://www.marcotoniolo.com/photoblog/?p=5
Posted by: Linda Morgi | March 26, 2007 at 05:50 AM