Shooting Sport as a Spectator Part 8: Mountain Bike Racing
A few weeks ago Fujifilm published the eighth episode in the series of features I am writing and filming on shooting different sports from a spectators point of view. This series has been well received by the readers of the Fujifilm blog and on social media and it has been really interesting for me as a sports photographer to explore different sports without the benefit of a media pass. I have been pleasantly surprised how good the access is at the sports that have been featured so far and by the fact that at some a media pass wouldn't have provided me with any better access than I got as a spectator. Part 8 was on the Scottish X Country Mountain Bike Racing series. Unlike the previous seven sports in this series, I haven't shot this sport before, so it was a bit of a learning curve. But it turned out to be a great day out in the forests of Dumfries and Galloway. I am now planning another four features which will feature some winter sports over the coming mo...