tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25116036860028766452024-03-05T18:26:11.764-08:00Gregg Bleakney's Blog on Visual Storytelling, Adventure Travel, Bike Touring, and Cyclingbicycle, photography, adventure photography, philanthropy, bike, cycle, touring, bicycle touring photographer, bike photographer, cycling photographer, cycling photography, Colombia Photography, cycling journalist, bicycle journalist, cycling writer, bicycle writer, visual storytelling, story telling, Sierra Club Photographer, Conservation, adventure travel writer, Gregg Bleakneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202513535865870778noreply@blogger.comBlogger184125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511603686002876645.post-46035420404206187672018-07-03T09:22:00.001-07:002018-07-03T09:22:06.457-07:00My Blog has Moved<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's been a while since I posted here--> My career as a photojournalist has evolved to founding <a href="http://wherenext.com/">WhereNext.com</a>, a video production and visual marketing agency. I still travel and write on a regular basis, but directing films and creative campaigns for WhereNext has been a dream come true for me.<br />
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Please check out my new blog site <a href="https://www.wherenext.com/blog/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Gregg Bleakneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202513535865870778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511603686002876645.post-78293931470536131682014-05-29T09:49:00.000-07:002014-05-30T11:16:22.734-07:00Cycling in Colombia: The Roots of Colombia's New Wave of Cyclists<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In early 2008, after finishing my <a href="http://gbleakney.com/VISUAL-STORIES/Ribbon-of-Road/1/thumbs/" target="_blank">Ribbon Of Road cycling tour</a> through the Americas I landed in Bogota, Colombia to photograph a travel piece for the now defunct National Geographic Adventure Magazine. Along the way, I stumbled into Ignacio Velez, also know as @ElCoach. He talked to me about his dream to organize a Colombian cycling squad with a carefully monitored training plan, strong anti-doping position, and an end goal of cultivating a new generation of cyclists to join the ranks of the pros in Europe. The team was called Colombia es P<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.22222328186035px;">asión</span>. Over the following 10 months, I pitched the story to every cycling publication I could find, but the idea was rejected by all of them except VeloNews, who commissioned the piece on spec.</span><br />
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The following year I packed my bags and hopped a bird to Bogota to embed with Velez's team. For the next two months I joined their training rides over the Andes, chilled out in their homes, and traveled with them as they fought through what I consider to be the toughest stage race in the world: La Vuelta Colombia. It was an experience that somehow led to a 7 year fascination with Colombia, new base camp in Bogota, and my Visual Storytelling and Film Agency start-up based in Bogota, <a href="http://wherenext.com/" target="_blank">WhereNext?</a>.</span><br />
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When I returned to the States to check-in with VeloNews, I was crushed to learn that they decided to kill the article. I begged and pleaded to get it published. In the end they told me to put together a 250 word photo essay, but I found it impossible to condense my experience into a single paragraph. I stayed up for 24 hours straight and wrote 4,000 words. VeloNews decided to run the piece nearly in its entirety and it became my first ever published long-form feature. The bummer was that in the rush to get it to the printer, my editor changed the title and made a glaring typo along the way: running the story as El P<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.22222328186035px;">asión</span> instead of La P<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.22222328186035px;">asión</span>. He also misspelled Colombia (Columbia) on several occasions--which is probably one most insulting things you can do to a Colombian. During the following month I received several phone calls and a flurry of emails from the Spanish speaking world ridiculing me for the typos. I was so embarrassed that I buried the clip deep in my digital archive. </span><br />
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Over the past few years it's been such a pleasure to watch this group of cyclists--Duarte, Quintana and many more--grow from the singular dream and hard work of Ignacio Velez to their current state of success at the Giro d'Italia. I think the story of the inception of the team and my time on the ground with the country's "escarabajos" might be of interest to cycling fans keen on understanding where and how this phenomenon we're witnessing at the Giro d'Italia came about.</span><br />
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With that said, I've dug it the piece out from the depths of my backup drive--you can<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.22222328186035px;"> download the link to the original article here:</span></span><br />
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Gregg Bleakneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202513535865870778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511603686002876645.post-38673152952803485972013-11-12T15:58:00.001-08:002013-11-12T16:56:21.965-08:00Getting Fredy to Namibia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The task of the getting Mr. Fredy Mora, the subject of <a href="http://wherenext.com/" target="_blank">WhereNext Creative's</a> latest short film, <i><a href="https://vimeo.com/78945208" target="_blank">Colombia's Lost River of Seven Colors</a>,</i> to the Adventure Travel World Summit in Namibia from the jungle of southern Colombia was perhaps more challenging than making the documentary itself.<br />
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When the Adventure Travel Trade Association first proposed that I present a series of short films at the World Summit, I was hesitant to recommend that we bring the subject of the documentary to the Summit as well. But after meeting Fredy and working with him during our 1.5 days of filming on The River of Seven Colors only two weeks before I was scheduled to fly to Namibia, I just knew he had to be there in-person for the presentation. <br />
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Unfortunately, Colombians have one of the worst passports of any country in Latin America. The idea of getting transit and travel VISAs for a trip to Africa is daunting, even for upper class Colombians--not to mention a young man from the middle of a former war zone who's never left southern Colombia before. In fact, Fredy was to be the first person ever from his town, La Macarena, to visit the continent of Africa.<br />
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When Namibia offered to pick up the tab for his flight from Europe and sponsor his country VISA, I mis-figured that the tough part was over. All we needed to do now was get him to Frankfurt and find someone to help fund the euro-leg of the trip--right? The Colombian Ministry of Tourism initially offered to pay for his ticket, but then pulled the plug as they did not have any money left in their 2013 budget to help Fredy out. To make things worse, we learned that even if we did get him to Frankfurt, the German consulate in Bogota was on holiday and nobody was around to issue his transit VISA (Colombians need a transit visa for certain connections). We tried routing the itinerary through South Africa but again, no dice on a transit VISA. At the very last minute, a contact in Bogota offered to walk his paperwork (which now included a stack of letters of recommendation from VIPs from three continents) to the Spanish Consulate in Bogota. With the promise of the Spaniards issuing a transit VISA we could focus on funding. <br />
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In a flurry of Colombian creativity, we were able to trade some money sent by the ATTA to help pay for the fuel costs required for the private planes to make the documentary to a separate espense bucket. Effectively, some very generous Colombian pilots ended up paying for the fuel. I was then able to help Fredy out with about 40% of the cost of his ticket, the remainder of which he funded on his own to attend the Summit, even though he'd never heard of the Summit before.<br />
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Fredy's first leg of the trip was aboard a 4-person aircraft from his home in La Macarena to a town called Villavicencio. He flew through a heavy storm and said that at some stage "it felt like they were going to crash." After landing, he transferred to a bus to make the long journey over the Andes to Bogota. The bus broke down mid-way and Fredy waited for several hours on the side of the road until a replacement bus arrived. Once he finally got to Bogota, he still didn't have his transit VISA--but the Spaniards did end up releasing it with just hours to spare.<br />
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With his transit VISA in-hand, my friend and fixer for this entire project, Hernan Acevedo, put him on the flight to Germany. With luck, one of Hernan's friends from Germany was also on the flight. He had a contact at the Frankfurt airport and arranged to help get Fredy from one terminal to the next as he's never left Colombia before and does not speak english.<br />
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After 40 hours of travel, Fredy touched down in Namibia and was then transferred to the wrong hotel. The ATTA delegation from Mexico, who happened to be staying at that hotel, made some calls and arranged for a taxi to take Fredy to the correct hotel. At that point, the airline called to inform Fredy that his luggage was still in Germany.<br />
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Four days later, when Fredy was still without his luggage, wearing borrowed clothing, and standing in front of a massive dune and looking at the ocean for the first time--none of the challenges of his journey seemed to matter. He was about as stoked as a man can be to living in the moment in Namibia. In fact, he never complained once about his baggage, or the tribulations of his trip to the Adventure Travel World Summit.<br />
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I'd like to say thank you to pilots Hernan Acevedo, Juan Carlos Lenz, and Alvaro Sanchez for organizing the flights to get us to La Macarena. Angelika Kohler and Natasha Martin for figuring out Fredy's travel logistics. And Jason Reckers for throwing down his personal credit card for Fredy's flight--even though the was no guarantee that it would happen as he didn't have a transit VISA yet.<br />
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Gregg Bleakneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202513535865870778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511603686002876645.post-46565889225759781812013-07-03T08:43:00.000-07:002013-07-03T09:05:49.570-07:00Androni at the Giro d'Italia for Paved Magazine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Gregg Bleakneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202513535865870778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511603686002876645.post-47520946530195891562013-05-12T17:21:00.002-07:002013-05-30T18:31:57.272-07:00Pirates of the Rainforest - Sierra Magazine & UTNE Reader<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #fffbff; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Researched, photographed and written over a period of four months in the backyard of my youth, Pirates of the Rainforest investigates the explosion of specialized forest product poaching on Washington State's Olympic Penninsula. "Pirates" is the first major non-cycling feature I've produced with both words and photos. I love cycling, but for me it has always been about travel and adventure--not racing, or gear--so in 2013, I've decided not to chase big races around the globe, but to re-focus my storytelling around my core passions: environmental issues and creative adventure travel, exploration, and people. With that said, I was honored when UTNE Reader selected Pirates for re-print in their </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">issue compiling essential environmental issues writing. My fingers are crossed that this is the first of many environmental issues projects to come.</span><br />
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Gregg Bleakneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202513535865870778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511603686002876645.post-8024911342893660272013-04-02T16:52:00.001-07:002013-04-03T15:26:23.080-07:00Finding Authentic Travelers (and underwear models) in Colombia for ExOfficio's Made to Adventure Campaign<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When ExOfficio asked me to produce their <i>Made to Adventure</i> 2012 spring/summer marketing campaign in the most authentic destination possible, I just knew I had to make it happen in Colombia. I lived in Colombia in 2009 and have been on assignment there at least once per year since 2008—it's probably my favorite country to photograph.</span><br />
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beyond the destination itself, we decided not to hire models, but rather to use
social media and networking along the traveler's trail to find real people on
real adventures in Colombia. With two talented assistants, Kathryn Friedman and
Willa Kammerer, and my friend and fixer extraordinaire, Hernan Acevedo, we set
out a 10-day, 2,000+ mile road trip through the country to track down travelers that
fit with ExOfficio's brand ethos in real-time. By the end of the production,
we’d photographed 38 different people for the campaign—all of them were on
amazing journeys and had incredible stories to tell.</span><br />
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The product focus was ExO's spring / summer line (including underwear). We carried three large duffel bags full of hundreds of clothing samples in the trunk of Hernan's Subaru wagon. The challenge was not only to look for travelers who matched the look ExO was after, but the talent also had to be the correct size and gender for the samples we were shooting in each geographic zone--eg. sun line in the desert, surf and water on the coast, Bugs Away in the jungle, urban travel in colonial towns, and cool weather and trekking garments in the Andes. It was also always a careful conversation to ask people we'd just met to consider modeling underwear. But alas, using a mix of careful planning and serendipity as the guide, everything came together perfectly.</span><br />
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It was hot, it was sexy, it was chaotic, and it was fully booked months in advanced. The 200th anniversary of Colombia's carnival was the event of the decade for the Caribbean port of Baranquilla--and after spending the better part of a day unsuccessfully internet-ing in search of a place to crash, I hopped the Boeing-train from San Francisco --> Houston --> Bogota --> Baranquilla without a clue as to where I was going to base camp during the 4.5 day party. But things always tend to work themselves out down here. "Colombian creativity" they call it.<br />
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After I touched down, my friend and master fixer in "Locombia," Hernan, put some calls in from his Bogota HQ while I was spooning through a rather putrid bowl of cow intestine soup at Mac Mondongo restaurant in downtown Baranquilla. He had a friend who had a friend who had a friend who had a single bed available in her hotel. The catch: it was a pay-by-the-hour nooky-house on the wrong side of town. "No problemo," I thought. During coastal stages of my cycling trip from Alaska to Argentina, I put my time in at many an hourly rate love shack as there simply weren't any other options. In fact, let me take this opportunity to share a favorite Tom Robbin's quote regarding said establishments.<br />
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From Mac Mondongo's, I hopped in a cab and mumbled the hotel address to the driver. "Where?"--he touched on the brakes. "I'll take you there, but if you leave your room for 5-minutes, you'll be returning without any clothes on your back." Baranquilla doesn't have the best reputation for "tranquilidad." Just at that moment, my cell blip-blipped. It was a text from another one of Hernan's friends. "My family has an extra apartment we use for entertaining out of town guests. You can have it tonight." </div>
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And that's where I put down my bags--8 hours after landing--on the eve of my first night in Quilla. The next day, I was taken-in by an incredibly fun family with an apartment just a click from the Carnival parade's starting point. They hosted me for the next 4 nights.</div>
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From Baranquilla, I took a bus down the Caribbean coast to Santa Marta where I bumped into a few of the cute dancers I'd photographed during carnival. They invited me to join them at a another "friend of a friend's" hotel on the eastern edge of Tayrona National Park. Fortunately, the chicken bus dropped us off at the wrong address. We walked down a random dirt road through the jungle anyway and somehow ended up at one of the most fantastic beach pads I've ever laid eyes on. We slept in hammocks for three days--taking photos, drinking Ron Viejo de Caldas mixed with fresh juice, stargazing, and picking sand out of our ears. I like to call it serendipity--but must give props to my "Locombia" friend Hernan's description of my post carnival R&R, "that's life in the f-ing tropics man."<br />
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Marta and Raul made a bet that travel on two wheels would yield the intangible reward of life unfiltered, of travel beyond the typical tourist's bubble. They were two years into a three year cycling trip through the Americas when I spotted them in a mountain hut last week (without their bicycles). I see eyes that reveal themselves only after authentic experience--the eyes of a traveler.</div>
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Gregg Bleakneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202513535865870778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511603686002876645.post-27410794347533266132013-02-04T09:39:00.001-08:002013-02-04T09:52:02.327-08:002013 - My Storytelling Roots<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lip biting, gear sorting, list making, camera prodding. My standard pre-assignment ritual. Tomorrow I'm hopping a bird to Colombia for seven weeks. If there's a place on the planet that feels like a second home, it's Colombia. I've been shooting there every year since 2008--but this trip is different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2012 was surreal for me. A flurry of around-the-world flights to 13 countries. Big goals, big projects, intense assignments, and killer new clients. It all blew by so fast. When I close my eyes, my memory spins, I get dizzy on experience. Now it's time to press pause. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This year I want to re-connect with my roots as an adventure travel visual storyteller, when my spirit was unfiltered, peripatetic, sniffing butts (see below) and wandering on a <a href="http://gbleakney.com/VISUAL-STORIES/Ribbon-of-Road/1/">Ribbon of Road</a>. So I'm kicking off 2013 with a completely re-designed <a href="http://www.gbleakney.com/">website</a> and blog that better express my personal brand. Most importantly, I carved out a block of time to journey back to my second home for no other reason than to follow my visual curiosity. No assignments, no deadlines, slow down, anticipate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Below, I've re-published an interview I did with <a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/photography/your-story/alaska-argentina-bike.html">National Geographic Adventure Magazine</a> as I was pedaling from Alaska to Argentina. This shortlist of lessons learned while I established my storytelling roots (but before I knew that I would become a visual storyteller) are just as viable today as when I wrote them down in 2006. A perfect guide for my 2013 endeavors. Let the serendipity begin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Be Nice.</b> "In 100 Mile House, a former South Cariboo gold rush town in British Columbia, I camped with a 78-year-old Russian military captain. Over a few beers, he shared his most important safety rule for traveling in foreign lands: 'Always remember that nobody wants to fight, cheat, or rob a nice guy.' Sometimes it's tough to be nice when you've ridden 80 miles in 100 degree heat through the Peruvian coastal desert and you're attempting to order dinner for the tenth time from a women who claims that your money is fake. But I've fully embraced this rule and it hasn't let me down so far."<br />
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Sniff Butts. "</b></span>Be like a dog--sniff butts. <span style="font-family: inherit;">Smell things, stare at things, touch things, taste odd-looking food, and talk to strangers. At some point during my middle-class American upbringing, I lost touch with my animal instincts. When traveling on bicycle you are much more exposed to the elements than when traveling in a car or bus. Engage all of your five senses to better protect yourself and interpret the world around you."</span></div>
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Surround Yourself With People Who Support You and Your Dream. "</b>While cycling on a jungle road in Chiapas, Mexico, I was assaulted and robbed by machete-toting <i>banditos.</i> As a result, I lost a substantial amount of gear, my cycling partner, and my self-confidence. My sponsors immediately sent replacement gear and my friends and family gave me the emotional support I needed to continue with my journey. Without their support, I would likely be nine to five-ing it right now, daydreaming about what could have been. Brooks rejoined the trip a few months later."<br />
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<b>Simplify. "</b>The less stuff you have, the less you have to worry about. My bike and gear tipped the scales at 135 pounds when I started this trip in Alaska. Through a large 'mail-home' package, misplacements, and mysterious disappearances, my kit now weighs in at under 100 pounds. I don´t miss anything, especially when climbing 16,000-foot passes in the Andes.<br />
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Surrender Yourself to Your Dream. </b>After about nine months of being on the road, I finally realized that this experience was not just a temporary departure from my real life, but that my dream had actually become my life. At that point, I became more flexible with my planning. I let my dream pull me forward, rather than me attempting to push it forward. Since this 'surrendering,' I've been much more relaxed, happy, and able to cope when things go awry.</span></div>
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Gregg Bleakneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202513535865870778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511603686002876645.post-7711617255645693752012-03-30T18:35:00.006-07:002012-04-02T12:28:46.175-07:00Follow The Good - Short Story and 13 page photo essay: PAVED MAGAZINE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Paved Magazine's winter edition features my 13-page photo essay about India's common man cyclists. Paved is now available as an iPad / iPhone app for anyone interested in checking out the images + short story about an epiphany brought on by a severe drug overdose, devil monkey twins, and a few words of wisdom from a sari wearing stranger while making 20,000 portraits of Indians on two wheels.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Gregg Bleakneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202513535865870778noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511603686002876645.post-1472078517141754742012-03-12T10:11:00.016-07:002013-02-04T09:41:02.432-08:00PAVED Magazine Cover - South Australia Aerial Series<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Some fresh work from this year's Tour Down Under has hit the newsstands.<br />
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First up, the cover shot and 10-page feature picture story/short essay for Paved Magazine (a new magazine from the makers of Bike, Powder, and Surfer) from my 2012 aerial series.<br />
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I've had many inquiries about how this this image was made--here's the lowdown.<br />
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This project was inspired after sitting next to National Geographic's aerial specialist <a href="http://www.georgesteinmetz.com/">George Steinmetz</a> at the The International Photojournalism Festival of Perpignan in 2010. Ever since, I've been looking for a cycling venue where I could secure a helicopter credential to execute aerial photography over a peloton. In January of this year, the the opportunity presented itself at the UCI World Tour Event, The Tour Down Under. <br />
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I had just a few minutes per stage directly above the peloton to make the pictures for this assignment. Each morning, the heli-pilot and I would meet in a ball field across the street from my hotel to review topo-maps of the route. We picked target locations for the shoot and cross-referenced our take-off duration, flight speed, and the actual start time/average speed of the peloton in attempt to intercept the cyclists over these locations for quick bursts of image making. The timing needed to be perfect--and a bit lucky. Air traffic control granted us two to three turns (hovers) over the bunch (1,500 feet) at each intercept point before we had to turn the airspace back over to the TV choppers. Because each stage was scheduled at mid-day--I needed to work with what I had--harsh sun and the beautifully patterned landscapes of South Australia. <br />
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Though I always think that there is room for improvement, in just a few days since publication, these images have become some of the most requested prints and editorial use licenses of any cycling-related photos in my archive. I think more aerials are in my future.<br />
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Gregg Bleakneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202513535865870778noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511603686002876645.post-26075659149802813322012-03-08T20:17:00.017-08:002012-03-08T23:11:00.650-08:002012 Kickoff = Back to Back to Back to Back Around the World<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2012 has kicked off with a flurry of travel activity, fresh projects, and zero downtime. First, because most of my new assignments are hitched with words, photography, and video production, I decided to change the name of my business to Gregg Bleakney <i>Visual Storytelling</i> from GB <i>Photography</i> to more accurately describe what I do. You can check out the new logo art on my <a href="http://gbleakney.com/">portfolio website here</a>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been such a jet lagged year that I've yet to post or see most of the work I've produced--but here's a skinny version of 2012 goods so far:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- <b>Helicopter Over the Tour Down Under.</b> Produced a series of aerials from a helicopter over the first World Tour of the UCI calendar (The Tour Down Under) for a picture story in PAVED Magazine.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- <b>Adelaide, Australia / ER Italy</b>. Wrote and photographed in-depth travel guides to Adelaide, Australia and Eastern Italy for the 2012 VeloNews Ultimate Guide.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- <b>Cycling Gone Global</b>. From China to Colombia to India, Malaysia and back again--words and pictures for a long form VeloNews story on the sport of cycling's new global frontiers.</span><br />
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Next week I'm dropping-in to Colombia with a team of storytellers to document a tale of self-discovery and renaissance--for both the country and its travelers. It's a fresh commercial concept with a compelling editorial thread. Real travelers, real destination, real stories. Still imagery, video, music, words. All coming this Spring/Summer to an ExOfficio touch-point near you!<br />
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</div>Gregg Bleakneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202513535865870778noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511603686002876645.post-21252274633095898432011-09-01T16:11:00.000-07:002011-09-01T16:11:24.728-07:00Paris Brest Paris for La Gazzetta's Sport Week Magazine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;">La Gazzetta dello Sport is Italy's biggest newspaper and the largest sporting publication in the world. Each weekend, they publish SportWeek Magazine as special insert in the newspaper. The magazine recently featured a photo-essay of my work from the Paris-Brest-Paris ultra endurance cycling race. Held every 4th year, the race was a precursor to the Tour de France and has been running for over 100 years. I shot the race with my trusted moto-driver, Mr. Stephan Schier, for 90 sleepless hours--rain and shine, along the incredible backroads of Brittany and Western France. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqRvdTTP8Fl-6nOOjib6yOwhIKhMW9ZLmEvne_sCZcJZowc3WPoYfRcQ7KmgR7uDSuPLXvhGJx-ScYmifFlA58eaDVCcIfAD6XYoK2ykojrsq3SJcyl-rOpwhyphenhyphenzT0AKiR9h5ZBgCjiwgVe/s1600/Gazzetta+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqRvdTTP8Fl-6nOOjib6yOwhIKhMW9ZLmEvne_sCZcJZowc3WPoYfRcQ7KmgR7uDSuPLXvhGJx-ScYmifFlA58eaDVCcIfAD6XYoK2ykojrsq3SJcyl-rOpwhyphenhyphenzT0AKiR9h5ZBgCjiwgVe/s400/Gazzetta+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</div>Gregg Bleakneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202513535865870778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511603686002876645.post-73364486173567105792011-08-29T22:29:00.000-07:002011-08-29T22:32:06.547-07:00La Maglia Rosa - Feature Picture Story for September's VELO/VeloNews<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">September's VELO Magazine (formerly VeloNews) is featuring a picture story I produced about the history of the Giro d'Italia's modern-day pink leader's jersey. Researching the article took me into the heart and soul of the race with the sport's biggest champions, directors, and business owners--and of course, plenty o' gelato. What a fun gig indeed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Gregg Bleakneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202513535865870778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511603686002876645.post-89504419841852591672011-08-18T03:13:00.000-07:002011-08-22T06:13:07.935-07:00Backyard<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've been living in the countryside near a small town in eastern Italy. It's late-summer, the fruit is sweet, it's hot, and most people are on vacation at the sea, the lake, or wherever it is that they go to cool off. This is what I see when I'm here. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Next week, I leave for China.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's been nice to have a backyard.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Gregg Bleakneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202513535865870778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511603686002876645.post-52914475133119889752011-07-28T23:41:00.000-07:002011-07-29T01:15:14.542-07:00Totally NOT behind the scenes at Le Tour de France<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><object height="520" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.photoshelter.com/swf/imgWidget.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="FlashVars" value="i=I00004yvhbgzIvaY&b=1"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.photoshelter.com/swf/imgWidget.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="true" FlashVars="i=I00004yvhbgzIvaY&b=1" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="520"></embed></object><br />
After witnessing the crazy press hordes, photographers shouting at each other, and tales of friends being elbowed in the face in the finish line pit, I decided that the press pass for the Tour de France that allows "behind the scenes" access wasn't really so "behind the scenes" after all. <a href="http://video.bicycling.com/video/Schleck-Brothers-Embrace-After;Tour-de-France-2011-Videos">Here's a video from the photographer at Bicycling Magazine</a> where Frank Schleck gets knocked off his bike by the crazed "behind the scenes" media who are scrambling to get a shot of the moment he hugs his brother after loosing the time-trial (and the Tour itself).<br />
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I like my freedom to roam and since this freedom is effectively restricted in the press area, I decided to scrap my press pass and big cameras to wonder around outside the lines and shoot 2011 Tour de France w/ an iPhone--as a fan/spectator. My goal was to convey what it's like to be a "normal person" without a press pass at the Tour de France. How close can a fan get to the athletes, what's the vibe, and how fun, wacky, wild is it (fans are much more chill than the media)?<br />
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Here's a short gallery photos from the 2011 Tour de France:<br />
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</div>Gregg Bleakneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202513535865870778noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511603686002876645.post-46151267516181102152011-07-26T07:16:00.000-07:002011-08-08T08:04:07.458-07:00Outside Magazine. India, RadioShack and New Frontiers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsQZuR6gILUWmeG3Rzl8SF-r8PsTVcD95EaSOUdayFdqr8mhrp1-8_Sgb9aNcmw1yYPBSMNyCajOPAO35aC13u_Fj4XueHsjXBp9xTIE-Pdm5D94YIPQhxQp4nJEttqlvgclg9W1B2aZP/s1600/OutsideAugust11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsQZuR6gILUWmeG3Rzl8SF-r8PsTVcD95EaSOUdayFdqr8mhrp1-8_Sgb9aNcmw1yYPBSMNyCajOPAO35aC13u_Fj4XueHsjXBp9xTIE-Pdm5D94YIPQhxQp4nJEttqlvgclg9W1B2aZP/s640/OutsideAugust11.jpg" width="484" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The August 2011 issue of Outside Magazine back cover "Parting Shot" is an image I made of Team RadioShack during their warm-up ride for the Tour de Nasik cyclothon in India. I'm fascinated by pro-cycling's recent push to expand into new global frontiers and am equally glad that mainstream, non-cycling magazines are willing to publish pictures of the trend. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZYuSwWD_ssnh4DF_iXX4EJ4_JqmVHtw7Ku2EmRtuMlne9PUG-UNXmvXnKJ1PcJEDapqFKUAxaR6GjjmEzEPw5YwnL5BFx4BDpjMjegb1MXtL0sic1RZvM_SD6IekR7LwceKcb-oIbNN2U/s1600/cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZYuSwWD_ssnh4DF_iXX4EJ4_JqmVHtw7Ku2EmRtuMlne9PUG-UNXmvXnKJ1PcJEDapqFKUAxaR6GjjmEzEPw5YwnL5BFx4BDpjMjegb1MXtL0sic1RZvM_SD6IekR7LwceKcb-oIbNN2U/s1600/cover.jpg" /></a></div><br />
</div>Gregg Bleakneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202513535865870778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511603686002876645.post-84874608289219251152011-07-06T02:21:00.000-07:002011-07-06T07:52:04.610-07:00A Car-Free Tour de Suisse Experiment<style>
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<h1>For more photos see the VeloNews Tour de Suisse Web Galleries: <a href="http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/06/road/2011-tour-de-suisse-prologue-a-gregg-bleakney-gallery_178094/attachment/tour-de-suisse-10">Lugano Prologue</a> and <a href="http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/06/road/photo-gallery-a-car-free-tour-de-suisse-with-gregg-bleakney_179523/attachment/tour-de-suisse-17">Car-Free Gallery</a> </h1><br />
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<h1></h1><div class="MsoNormal">Last summer <a href="http://gbleakney.blogspot.com/2011/03/cover-shot-and-45-page-feature-story.html">(while in Switzerland researching trips for the VeloNews Ultimate Ride Guide)</a> I discovered the Swiss National Bike Network and its nine cross-country road bike routes with 82 local and regional trails covering 9,000 kilometers. I also learned that for an extra $10 (above and beyond my train ticket), SwissRail allows travelers to toss a bike onto any Swiss train. Wonder-twin-power-activate this rail and trail system, sprinkle some heart-thumping terrain on top, and you get a veritable Disneyworld for DIY cycling junkies.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This summer, with 1-month remaining on my annual 50% off Swiss train pass, $7+ per gallon gas prices, and an assignment to photograph several Tour de Suisse stages, I wanted to see how far I could push the Swiss transportation infrastructure. Would it be possible to shoot the race using only trains and a bicycle?; i.e. no cars or motos. To find out, I put this “carbon-free as possible” Tour de Suisse experiment in-motion after the stage 1 prologue in Lugano, where I aimed my bars north to Zurich and fully embraced my roots as a steel frame riding, wool sock wearing, earthy-crunchy Pacific Northwestern cycling photographer.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Rather than follow the race from point to point, I based myself in a small village near Zurich with easy access to a train station and feeder lanes to the Swiss National Bike Network. From this hub, I could hop a train or pedal to the beginning of stages and either hang at the start or spin ahead on the Tour de Suisse race route until I found a scenic spot to shoot the passing peloton. Next, I would catch a train to the finish or ride a National Bike Network trail back to Zurich. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In 2010, I somehow overlooked the fact that Switzerland has no open container laws but took full advantage of Heidiland’s public beer drinking tolerance this year by rewarding myself at the end of each day’s photo-shoot with one or more Swiss brewskies. Prime swilling locations included the grassy slope of stage 7’s 2383 meter Fluelapass and every time I used the rails to get back to my crash pad near Zurich. In total, I managed 386 kms of cycling with 4630 meters of climbing to cover 4 stages—a far cry from what the racers hammered but much more fun than sitting in a car.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">I was never alone on the trains or trails and met meet hundreds of cyclists who were also using this rail/bike combo to follow the race. South Africans, Germans, Italians, and Swiss, by the end of the race I’d made two-wheeled friends from all over the globe. It’s truly been a “pinch me this ain’t real” experiment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">Here's some photography from my car-free 2011 Tour de Swiss gig:</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Some popular galleries and content from my Giro coverage on VeloNews.com:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/05/news/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-giros-poorest-team-with-the-biggest-dream_172203">Photo Essay, Team Androni - The Giro's poorest team with the biggest dream</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/05/news/a-conversation-with-giro-race-director-angelo-zomegnan_171753">Interview with Giro race director Angelo Zomegnan</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/05/gallery/at-the-giro-with-gregg-bleakney-start-to-finish-2_176423">Photo Essay, At the Giro with Gregg Bleakney</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Giro was just a super-dreamy gig, when I have a little more time to digest it all, I'll post some light color galleries from my own wild ride around Italy in this blog.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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This shot was made two years ago with fellow vagabundos gMack, Hall-Pass Ben, and Sir Scotty M. in the Quinault rainforest, an alternative route option for the popular <a href="http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes/pacificcoast.cfm">Pacific Coast Cycling Trail</a> that loops around Olympic National Park and/or the Hood Canal to Astoria, Oregon. We landed an assignment to test cycling-specific rain gear and decided that it would be appropriate to do the testing in the rainiest place in the Lower 48 at the rainiest time of year. As luck would have it, nary a rain drop glazed the tarmac during our 4-day shoot and I had to get creative to make it look wet when it was actually sunny and uncharacteristically super-fab November weather.<br />
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Regarding the swag test results...for me, bike travel <b><a href="http://bit.ly/kKrs8P">ain't about the gear</a>,</b> it's about traveling differently and experiencing landscapes and people in a more intimate way than possible with a car or plane...but if you just have to know, the article on the topic by Sir Scotty M. is <a href="http://www.adventurecycling.org/resources/201004%5FSingin%27InTheRain%5FMcCredie%2Epdf">here</a>.</div></div>Gregg Bleakneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202513535865870778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511603686002876645.post-4862095368524906572011-05-31T02:56:00.000-07:002011-08-08T08:16:05.915-07:00Ditch Logic - A Podcast from the Dirtbag Diaries<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEZT8cWHJXd36_Y8-DADwqWSRvQESFsENom-6QdzmgNZM-olh3pJCsvHVUhLDwAUogttyqKNsvqj75RMWu_wZSoPOB79716Vom7jHNOZJNNDq8LJLmWVwaEw0vIRxFjLcL3JSsKkaYuANk/s400/6a00d8341d07fd53ef014e87f6e722970d-300wi.jpg" width="400" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.thecleanestline.com/2011/04/dirtbag-diaries-ditch-logic.html">Listen to the Podcast on Patagonia's Cleanest Line</a></div><br />
I had a great time working on this podcast about how my two year "out in the world" bicycle trip changed my life. I think that Fitz and Becca did a great job of keeping my thoughts in line--heck, they even got my big bro to speak without mumbling! This, more than anything I could write in a portfolio bio section, explains my path to photojournalism.<br />
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