llangollen – Aaron Crowe Photography

2015 Rose Bikes BDS – Llangollen- Sunday. Race day.

May 31, 2015May 31, 2015Posted in DownhillTagged british downhill, Downhill, llangollen, mountain bike, racing, ride portugal, rose bikes, wideopen magazineLeave a comment

I arrived back at Llangollen after a night of rain at home, wondering how many people would just sack the racing off altogether. Turns out a few did, but the numbers on the hill were still pretty high.

I walked up to the woods for seeding and watched some of the people come through. Some were struggling more than others and I heard shouts of Rider x down and not continuing over the marshals radios. The numbers were slowly dwindling.

The sun did come out though and racing was soon underway. Here are a few shots, mainly from the last jump/drop into the finish straight.

Wideopen Mag’s Charlie Hatton

Wideopen Mag’s Joe Parfitt

Wideopen Mag’s Rich Thomas

Wideopen Mag’s Kye Forte on his way to his Masters win

Kade Edwards

Josh Bryceland

Gee Atherton

Joe Smith – Winner of round 3 BDS

2015 Rose Bikes BDS – Llangollen- Saturday Practice.

May 30, 2015May 31, 2015Posted in DownhillTagged BDS, British downhill series, Downhill, downhill mountain biking, llangollen, mountain biking, one giant leap llangollen, Rose bikes BDS, rose bikes uk, round 3Leave a comment

Well it’s been a few years since I’ve managed to get to a downhill race. Luckily my rota fell kind with round 3 of the Rose bikes sponsored British Downhill Series at a fairly local venue, Llangollen.

Downhill was where I first started taking photo’s and it was good to be back on a (bloody steep) hill with my camera again. Here’s a few shots of Saturdays practice.

DMR Bikes Expert rider Richard Acott

Master rider Justin Fisher-Cooke

Youth rider Corey Watson chasing someone down

Rachel Atherton checking out an unlucky rider

Elite Women – Rachel Atherton

Wideopen Mag’s Elite rider Rich Thomas

Wideopen’s Jamie on the Periscope

Rider 40

NS Bikes’ Sean Davies

Wideopen Mag’s Junior rider Charlie Hatton

Wideopen Mag’s Youth rider Joe Parfitt

Gareth Brewin – Elite

GT Factory Racing Gee Atherton – Elite

CRC/NukeProof Elite rider Joe Smith

Atherton Academy Youth rider Kade Edwards

Rose Vaujany Elite rider Katy Kurd

CRC/Nukeproof Elite rider Mike Jones

An early start

January 22, 2014January 22, 2014Posted in Long ExposureTagged castle dinas bran, landscape, llangollen, mist, morning, morning mist, north wales, sunrise, wales, welsh photographyLeave a comment

This is my first post of the new year. I’ve been busy with work recently and haven’t really had the time to keep up with this, and although I have had my camera with me most days, I haven’t done much with it.

I had planned to get up early on my day off to go and get the sunrise over Llangollen. After dropping my wife off at the train station at 5.40 a.m I picked up a friend and headed over to Llangollen. After finding the car park, we headed up the Panorama Walk, only to miss the turn off to the point we wanted to get to, meaning a long walk around. Luckily, we had enough time to get to where we wanted before sunrise.

Greeted by this, we headed towards the end of the fence.