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2011 MotoMatters Calendar Now For Sale

I’m very pleased to announce that our 2011 calendar is now up for pre-sale over at MotoMatters.com! On Monday I will be taking the computer files to the printer to begin the proofing process and we hope to be on press in the next two weeks and shipping to U.S. customers by the end of […]

Sometime the Biggest Battles Happen Off the Battlefield

In my capacity as a journalist in the MotoGP paddock, I do my best to refrain from sympathizing more with one rider than another or becoming a fanboy of anyone in particular. In fact this is often pretty easy, because behind the scenes glimpses into the riders’ personalities when they are temporarily out of the […]

MotoGP Trophy Desktop

MotoGP fans will likely recognize this item from the intro of the official race feed. Each year, the new MotoGP champ’s section is installed on the trophy, which is displayed at the non-fly-away rounds in Dorna’s mobile suite of offices. I saw it for the first time at Silverstone and grabbed a few photos of […]

Rossi Desktop

You’ve asked for desktops, and here’s the first one: Valentine Rossi coming through the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca with the special Faces Fiat Yamaha livery. This is a hi-res 1920×1200 jpg for large monitor and smaller. Download it here!

Find Your Face

Ok, Twitter and Facebook friends, I took a few moments Saturday to photograph the Fiat Yamaha bikes before Jorge and Vale went out for FP2. Some of you sent me your own photos to help me find you but I just didn’t have time to search while the teams were getting the bikes ready to […]

Fire In The Desert

The story of Rossi’s glowing brake discs For a year I had a unique photograph. As far as I could tell, after searching everywhere I could think of, I was the only one who’d gone to the entrance of Turn 1 at Losail in 2009 and captured the glowing brakes as the MotoGP riders as […]

Ritual

We had a pleasant but strange drive back from the track just before 5AM this morning. The sun was rising to our left, barely perceptibly at first, but the soft blow glow on the horizon grew stronger as we approached downtown Doha. I was sorry we’d missed the morning call to prayer: I quite like […]

Working Late

The demise last year of the Friday morning practice session means that day 1 in Qatar doesn’t start until well into the evening, and with one practice session per class we were done and heading back to the media center just before midnight. BMW is a series sponsor of MotoGP, and Losail has the nicest […]

In the club, at least for now…

Instead of staying in a hotel this year, I’m sharing an apartment or sorts (it’s a room in a Residence Hotel) with a fellow photographer, Andrew Wheeler, whose work has probably had more influence on me than any other sports shooter. I’ve known him in person for several years and it was largely his offer […]

Qatar Redux

I used to think that San Francisco to Europe was a long flight. But San Francisco to Qatar? When you get to Europe, you’re almost halfway there. From take-off at SFO to landing in Doha (with the odd stay on he plane lay-over in Riyadh): 23 hours of travel time. To make that trip you […]