another year, another race. but this isn’t just any race. set right in the middle of bridgefest weekend, the chain drive racers take over downtown houghton, the lift bridge and the maasto hiihto/churning rapids trails in their brightly colored jerseys. so cool! congrats to all of you chain drive racers – you were, as always, awesome & inspiring.
this year, brockit upped the ante from last year’s boat shots to helicopter shots. manned by lake superior helicopters, we were able to capture stills & video from 200 feet above the race. crazy! a huge thanks to the LSH crew, todd brassard of brassard media for shooting video, and to brockit’s second shooter, emily, who was stuck in the woods shooting with the bugs (sorry, em).
lastly, thank you to the organization, christine young, chris schmidt, and everyone for having us shoot the race again & for helping us figure out where to land a chopper on the race trails. i laughed, but knew adam wasn’t kidding when he asked them, “so… just say you needed to land a helicopter somewhere on the course to drop a photographer off. where would the best place for this be? 50’x60’ max with no wires or trees or anything…”
below is the highlight reel for your viewing enjoyment – please pass it along and view it at full-screen!
check out the full gallery here: http://brockit.smugmug.com/Clients/chaindrive
images are free (just right-click & save) for medium resolution download (please thank your race organization & christine young!) and unusually high-res images (so you can pick yourself out in the chopper shots) as well as any physical prints are available for purchase through the site. enjoy, and thank you!
- meg
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