Through The Lens – Why BMX Photography?
This is the kind of photograph that motivates me to shoot. It’s rare for me to be completely satisfied with a photo without having a few things to pick out that I would have done differently or wished to have changed but in this case, I would say I am pretty happy with the results which is exactly why I chose this photo of Mykel Larrin to go along with
the first installment of TTL.
When it came time to sit down and write my first piece for this ongoing project I really wanted to talk about such a variety of things that the hardest part about getting started was narrowing down my intro topic. After a while I actually had a list of about five or so ideas consistently running through my head and that wasn’t bad considering the onslaught of ideas that I have had since this whole project started to come to fruition. I not only was reminded once again that you can’t rush when it comes to writing and to be patient because ideas will come to you on their own. With that said, welcome to the first edition of Through the Lens. –Why BMX Photography?
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Introducing Jeremy Pavia
Some of you who have been paying attention to The Union for a while now may have caught on to some of my subtle hints of some changes coming to the site. 2011 was a great year and I wanted to start 2012 off proper with some changes that I think will feature all of the new original content better.
We launched the new photogallery last week and there will be a few new additions to the site in the next week or two additional to the gallery that I think you will like.
I’m also stoked to announce the first of two new contributors to The Union. After Jeremy Pavia spent a number of years at BMX Plus!, he recently decided to part ways to pursue some of his personal goals. Some how, I managed to convince him to spend some of his newly acquired free time contributing here! Expect a weekly section from him starting tomorrow!
We have a fresh interview with Jeremy to introduce you to him and to find out what he plans on bringing to the site after the jump. After you check that out, check out some of his photo work in this brand new PHOTOGALLERY! Check it!
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Jeremy Pavia Welcome Photogallery
Jeremy Pavia is the newest addition to The Union’s staff! After you check out this photogallery, make sure you check out his interview!
Fundraiser: Catty Woods Benefit Film
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The legendary Catty Woods in Pennsylvania are one of BMX’s true treasures. Each year, they need to lease the land and pay insurance to keep the trails alive. The Union will be donating 100% of the money generated from this video to help cover their annual expenses but doing this will require a lot of support from the BMX community.
Tom Camby produced this 14 minute video featuring some older footage from Catty and POSH for you to enjoy. After you have watched it, share the link to it on your Facebook wall, share it on Twitter, share it on your favorite forum. Hell, tell your grandma to check it out. The more views this video gets, the more it will allow us to donate to keeping these trails alive. Just think, you are donating by simply pushing play or copying and pasting the link somewhere. Easy as that! Couldn’t be any easier. Note: You don’t have to watch the whole video for it to count!
Copy and paste this link you your Facebook / Twitter / wherever. You can also find the embed code on there for those of you with a website!
LINK: http://bmxunion.bnqt.com/videos/detail/The-Union-Catty-Woods-Benefit-Edit/1460428839001.html
If you want to make a tax deductable monetary donation, please visit this link – http://pawoods.com/donate/
You can find out more about the trails by checking out PAWoods.com.
Thank you for your support!
Dakota Roche Bike Check
Let’s kick your weekend off right with a fresh new bike check with Cult, Cinema, Vans and Monster Energy‘s Dakota Roche. Hit the new PHOTOGALLERY to take a closer look at what he’s running these days!
All photos courtesy of Cody York.
Photogallery: Dakota Roche Bike Check
All photos by Cody York / CodyYorkPhotography.com
Daniel Peñafiel Interview
All photos by Ismael ibañez
Daniel “Naran” Peñafiel is a rider from Spain that over the years I have constantly seen popping up in contest results and videos. In that time, I’ve learned he’s a rider with a lot of style and a big bag of tricks. At the start of the new year, it was announced that he would be changing things up for himself and he made the switch to Mutant Bikes after a number of years with Fly. Along with that news also came another real good video from him. I figured it was a good time to get ahold of the guy and find out a little bit more about him. So let’s take a look at what he had to say.
Name: Daniel Peñafiel
Photogallery: 2nd Annual BV Jam
There’s two really big reasons why I’m stoked to present this photogallery. The first is that Tristan Thiel came through huge with a bunch of really great photos from the 2nd Annual BV Jam featuring Reed Stark, Erik Elstran, AJ Haines, Nick Harkins, Spencer Sullivan and a few others!
Second, I’m stoked to finally drop The Union’s brand new photogallery! It’s been a long time in the works, and thanks to Andrew Brady I was able to get my ideas into a working gallery! Expect more photogalleries SOON!
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2nd Annual BV Jam Photogallery
All photos courtesy of Tristan Thiel – tristanthiel.com
2nd Annual BV Jam – Best Trick & Rail Jam Edit
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^ Turn it up to 720P!
Blake Waters is finally back from his snowboard trip he took right after the jam, so now he’s back to editing the footage from the 2nd Annual BV Jam from two weekends ago. Above you can see footage from the Mutiny Best Trick and Division Brand Rail Jam.
As you can see, Reed Stark absolutely kills the place in both jams. He actually won both too (huge wall ride to 180 – the deck on the quarter is like 7 feet for best trick.. and he dropped a ton of crazy rail tricks)… but since Reed is on BSD he passed the frame he had won to AJ Haines who pulled the opposite 360 look back to late tailwhip. You can also see some footage from Erik Elstran, Glenn Dussl, Dan Kruk and more. Check it!
Expect some more footage to drop here soon from a few other things from the day, and the photogallery… once our new photogallery is dialed in… hint hint.
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