A day with the kuhl bunch Mk II
The good thing about being a photographer is that you can do so many things – but you never have to be “great” in them, just “good enough” to be able to capture what’s going on.
In a wise move of strategic thinking I already shot the ski-pix for next (2010/2011) season in the Zillertal Alps with the kuhl bunch including a freestyle champion and Skihaserl. They did marvelous things like jumping in the air with their skies, doing loops and corkscrews while having a casual chat with their mother on the cell phone, then having two or three flips and landing the thing properly again in the snow. Amazing.
It is a pitty the weather was not very good and we had bad light (and thus pretty slushy pix) most of the day. Well, you can ski till Easter and there will be sufficient opportunity to do more of this I guess.
To come back to the “good enough” thing: I found out, that with skiing again, though I am a pretty looser in absolute terms, I am good enough to capture what’s going on. Same goes with swimming, diving, mountain climbing and parachuting. So wait for more kuhl sports to come…
PS: See more previews (that’s all it is!) of this series on my Facebook page. It’s new and still a bit experimental but will grow. Or so.
June 13th, 2010 at 5:12 am
Hi can I reuse for the first photo at the top of the page as I want to use it on my own private site if that’s alright?
June 13th, 2010 at 9:52 am
Well, look, I make a living of selling these photos and for web usage they cost only cents (literally!) to buy. So I would very much appreciate if you could check out the links given under “Portolio and Download” to those agencies. There you will have access to millions (again, literally!) of pictures of talented people for (way too) low prices…