Ben Kaufmann (i)

The usage of the letter "i" is optional at the end of Ben last name. Other optional variations are Kauffman, Coughman, or how our hockey league has it spelled; Kawf. Ben didn't even want to do this walltap because "I am shit footed and I am not good at them." No big deal it's only like 5ft back or so.

Friendly reminder to have your shit in order for the dirt jam. Don't forget your helmet and pads. Let's huck away! See you there!!!

Ben walltapping the best spot in Hull, QC, on his new Norco bike

NYC

So we went to New York City for a long weekend and it was great. Here are a few random shots thrown in until I can get my act together for a real update. If you go to New York, pay more and stay in Manhattan, the extra coin will be worth not dealing with transit! We checked out Pat's art exhibit "Smell the Blood" on Broadway. Pretty awesome that he has done that so early in his career. We know it's a sign of good things to come for Pat! Later.


Pat Kryzanowski's art exhibit on Broadway!



Craz-E-Crew show in Gatineau

I was able to catch up with the guys for the final show of the day at the Gatineau Balloon Festival. Everyone was shredding the ramps pre-show, but my bottom bracket shit the bed. A perfect time to pull the camera out. Shooting with a flash is sort of new for me and it's a fun challenge to get the photos the way you want, especially as the sun goes down quickly. You have to react and work with the camera's limitations (flash sync at a 1/200, etc). I was fairly happy with these and you can see from the first few photos when the sun really dropped. These were shot with the Opteka 6.5 fisheye and Canon 50mm. The Craz-E-Crew is always a good time and if you bring your bucket and capable of jumping there is a fair chance they'll let you session in between shows. I have been fortunate enough to travel with them in the past and really enjoy seeing the new and different up and comers join the team. Jumping is the shit.

Craz-E-Crew is just that. Never one to disapoint, Ben flips over Will. He isn't huge, but the flip certainly is

Brose Farm Dirt Jam on Oct 1st!

Nick boosts the 1st double

 Rode at Josh Brose farm with Chitaroni and Nick Stupich. Wild good time. Really fun setup that sends you to the moon. Josh is having a dirt jam at his farm on Oct 1st. It's his 23rd b-day and he wants a good jam going with a kegger party afterwards. More details to come from capitalbmx.net but plan to stay over and plan to have fun. Enjoy the photos.

Some recent T3i fall photos

Fall is here. Probably the best time of the year to ride, if the weather works out in your favour that is. With the crap weather I am finding plenty of time to go through my photos. Here is few recent ones from  the last few weeks.

On Labour Day, an OC Transpo Special Constable was cool enough about giving us the boot from the transit area where Nick is pictured below. Funny though, he finished his piece with "school's back in tomorrow hahahahahaha." In my head I thought, you fool, I am almost 30 years old and I have a sweet job, you are the idiot working while I play. 

A few weeks back I hit up the L'Ongeuil skatepark on the South Shore of Mtl with Chitaroni. I had been wanting to hit this park over the years. Upon arrival I found the wood had been replaced with that grey recycled plastic material. It was grippy enough and turned out to be a cool park with some unique ramps. Worth checking out. While in the area, we hit up Boucherville concrete park. An odd hole in the ground park. It was a bit late in the day and kiddies were using it as pre-school playground. It's a giant oval with quarters and banks all the way around. Odd indeed, but worth hitting at least once.

Hope the photos are ok so far. I like to think they will only get better with time. More after the jump!

Nick Stupich with a proper street fufanu in Ottawa

2010 Canon 40D photo offload

The 40D is long gone now. It made it's way to the mysterious Chris Campbell somewhere in Alberta. It's either collecting dust or being used for creepy photos of girls. Here are a bunch of my favs from 2010 I found while poking around on my hard drive. More photos after the jump. Did I get that right? "after the jump..." Bloggin'!

Norco's Ben Kaufmann, one footed pancake in Montreal's Le Taz

WELCOME!

slobber machine, Canyon

Here it is, my first blog post. Still no cellphone, wrist watch, or facebook. But this a is a big step. Now just hope that I pull up some old photos I took of you from many sessions ago. I am getting to know my way around the camera a bit more with time, and I find myself shooting nonstop. But what do I do with these photos you ask? This blog hopefully answers that. I will do my best to keep it coming. Just make sure to come back so it's worth my time. Especially since I am new to this and I will find my way around this blog thing. Expect many new posts with multiple photos from over the last year. Enjoy.