Dan Barham :: Mountain Bike Photography

My younger (yet substantially taller) brother, Nick, came over from good ol’ Blighty for a quick visit, to hang out and generally see what I’ve been making a fuss about all this time. We spent most of the week doing a whole lot of not very much, but I couldn’t resist the urge to drag him along to a quick photoshoot I’d arranged with Team NSMB.com’s Jerry Willows on the North Shore; if nothing else, he’d be a useful assistant (I have a bad habit of conscripting anyone foolish enough to express a passing interest into hauling around gear for me).

Nick brought his own little camera with him and managed to capture the kind of behind-the-scenes shots I always mean to take, but never have time or remember.

Here’s one of my images, (albeit not one of the best from the day, but you know the score with that by now):

And here’s some of the setup I had going on for it:

I love this ladder, it’s one of my favourite ‘accessory gadgets’. Super cheap at Canadian Tire, this badboy folds up nice and small (small enough to strap to a bag if I’m feeling up to the balance / walking challenge) yet rigid enough to not be a problem 12′ up a tree.

Another strong favourite is the ball-ended bungee - why carry a bunch of tripods around for flashes when nature brings the supports herself?

More flash (yeah yeah, I know) in the foreground, me probably showing Jerry how I’d chopped his head off that frame and a bunch of gear carelessly discarded on a nearby stump. I really need to stop doing that, at the end of this shoot I realised I was down one wide-angle lens, put down somewhere in a thirty yard stretch of undergrowth. Nothing like kicking through ferns in dying light trying to find $800 worth of gear.

By the magic of those tiny little cameras (why can’t mine do this?) here’s a couple of videos, too:

Of course, thanks to my bro Nick for the photos and videos (even though I’m his older brother and consequently entitled to everything of his).

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