Back to School - Dirt School!

[HIMUPNORTH]

Last day of the holidays today here in the Arctic circle so we had a "back to school" with my lad and two of his pals. We booked them in for some training with downhill guru Chris Ball and we travelled down to Dunkeld for a three-hour session.

the lads had a good time, learned a lot and are now looking to putting their new learned skills to use at the opening round of the Scottish series which starts this weekend at the same venue.

This is Ronan dropping in to the "pinball" section, a section that is full of off-camber rocks that bounce the rider in all directions....
http://garywilliamson.co.uk/imaging/dirtschool/bin/images/photos/XA1D1047.jpg


Chris giving the lads a few pointers.........
http://garywilliamson.co.uk/imaging/dirtschool/bin/images/photos/XA1D1010.jpg



Greg sets himself up for a drop-in..........
http://garywilliamson.co.uk/imaging/dirtschool/bin/images/photos/XA1D1108.jpg


Ronan finding a line through the rocks........
http://garywilliamson.co.uk/imaging/dirtschool/bin/images/photos/XA1D1061.jpg

All images taken using a 300mm lens (Moomikes before he visited the dark side:D ).

More images from the day can be found here. (http://garywilliamson.co.uk/imaging/dirtschool/)

[kfridge]

good shots there...you can certainly see where the pinball section gets its name!

[Dark Star]

Nice set - first ones a corker!

[Witch]

The colours on those are excellent, especially considering it looks like the light might not have been the greatest..... Which 300mm is it could I ask?

No. 1 would probably be my favourite of that bunch. :thumbs:

[HIMUPNORTH]

Thanks for the comments guys.

Robyn - It the Canon 2.8L. ISO was at 640 for all shots.

[Les McLean]

Good series, and the images have a narrative behind them. First is the pick as Ronan looks as though he's going to explode from the screen.

[Hacker]

Good series of images Gary but the first and last stand out for me.

:clap: