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Issue
Thirty Nine
Hello
A true very short story.
This is how the email you are reading was originally written...
Hello
The Shoot & Ride magazine is off the ground.
Right now we are £TBC closer to taking Shoot & Ride from your inbox and into your letterbox.
I wrote it in preparation last week before the Shoot & Ride Magazine crowdfunder opened.
I thought I was was being organised.
I thought I was getting my campaign strategy all ahead of schedule.
I thought it would take 8 weeks to raise the £1500 to make this thing happen.
Turns out I didn't know sh*t.
It took about 4 days.
And right now we are at 122%.
What.The. Actual. 🤓.
You good, good people.
I can't thank you enough.
Legends, each and every 121 of you who have backed the project so far.
So, I am in the process of rethinking my strategy.
From how do we get this off the ground, to how FAR off the ground can we take it?
If the funding keeps coming in I think we are going to be able to push from a modest 60ish pages up to, well let's see what that final figure looks like. 100 has a nice ring to it.
At some point I may also need to employ the services of someone who has actually designed a magazine before.
Don't worry, I know what I'm doing.
So, here's a recap.
We are making The Shoot & Ride Magazine.
For real life.
Step 1 - raise the funds.
Done.
Step 2 - populate the mag with your Shoot & Ride images that are just too big for Instagram.
This has begun.
I have had 26 submissions so far.
I have been in woodlands, up mountains, on the coast, and traveled from the British countryside all the way to Rwanda.
I absolutely love it.
Thank you for taking the time to submit - this mag really can't exist without you.
I hadn't realised that the hardest part of this project would not be convincing people to part with their cash, but being in the position of saying whose pics make it in to the mag, and whose don't.
🤢
I'm going to find a way to celebrate every single image submitted.
Here's a few that have caught my eye so far.
And yes, that is my picture in there, I know I'm a dick but I needed to start somewhere.
LANDSCAPES
This project started with one image. It’s the one that I talked about in this film.
It is one of the few that I posted on Instagram, and made me realise that it couldn’t fit on the tiny iPhone screen.
I took a few while were up in the mountains, but this is the one that I think deserves to be seen BIG.
Here’s how it came to be.
Photographer:
Greg Villalobos
Location:
Spain
Camera:
Canon 5DMk IV / Canon 70-200mm f4l IS II USM
Info:
ISO 400 > 70mm > f 5 > 1/160
This photo was shot early in the morning on one of the last days of our trip through Spain in 2022. We had made it high into the mountains and found a wonderful spot to camp. It had incredible views in every direction. The scale was huge, much bigger than anything we have access to at home in the UK.
I wanted to try and capture that sense of scale, but really the only way to do that is to put something in the frame that you can use as a reference, in this case a bike and rider, tiny in the corner.
I asked Adam to ride down the mountain and I used my big 70-200mm lens to shoot him on the way. I got a lot of shots but I chose this one because I felt that it did a good job of presenting that scale. It’s kind of that classic image that you want to imagine yourself in, riding these dusty switchbacks, having an adventure without a care in the world.
MOTION
Photographer:
Wil Collins
Location:
North Herts, UK
Camera:
GoPro hero 5 w/8 stop ND filter
Info:
ISO 200, wide angle, f4 1/50th
I was fortunate to be loaned the mammoth Triumph Rocket 3. En route to work one morning, the low sun rising I used the GoPros time lapse mode to capture this. Add an ND filter and it then becomes about quantity and you hope to get a good one. A trip up and down this road saw this shot and me being 10 mins late for work.
FRAMES
Photographer:
Paulius Taraskevicius
Location:
Italy
Camera:
Fuji XT2 35mm f2
Info:
ISO400 / 35mm / f2 / 1/4000s
In the summer of 2021 I took a trip on my Husky 701 from the Netherlands to Corsica and back. I was taking all of the scenic routes and as much TET and other off-road as I could. On the way back, I was taking an Italian TET section along the Ligurian border road. This stunning track follows the peaks of Ligurian alps and is quite popular with off-roaders. Though not as remote and untouched as some other places on the trip, it still had that mistic magical feeling only special places have. This cool dark tunnel piercing the ridge was a nice shelter from the sun and heat of the Italian summer.
So, I hope you are starting to get the idea of what this project is about.
This is how the Shoot & Ride Magazine is looking so far (hit this link).
There is a long way to go, and I have to say this, the final decision on what's in and what's not doesn't happen until the end - I need to be able to see that the whole thing flows.
Man this is harder than I thought.
Don't go easy on me though, if you want in, I want to see what you've got.
Please submit your pics here. This can't happen without you.
And if you know someone who would dig this project, send them to the crowdfunder here.
Thank you for your time.
See you next week.
🙏
Greg Villalobos
The Shoot & Ride Magazine is happening.
You can be part of it.
Back the crowdfudning campaign now
and help take #shootandride from your inbox into your letterbox.
I can’t do it without you.
Submit your images for the magazine here.
Thank you.
