Image of the Day: Sam Adams’ BMX

Photographer Bio: I am currently a 21 year old student living in Albuquerque, NM. I never
knew when I started shooting back in high school that I would want to
make a career out of it, but here I am a few years later working to do
just that. I am a graduate from Brooks Institute of Photography and
currently a student at The University of New Mexico.

The lowdown: “As for the photo for the kid falling– I shot that during a local BMX contest we hold in a ditch here in Albuquerque, NM every year. It’s called the Double Ditch Jam. At the end of the day someone decided to have a long jump contest and this kid decided to try it. So he took one jump before this and didn’t go very far, so the next jump he just sprinted at the ramp and it just launched him wrong. Probably the most surprising thing about this is that he walked away with only a few scrapes and bruises. I can speak for most everyone there in that we pretty much all thought he was going to be seriously injured when we saw him let go of his bike that high.”

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Rather balletic falling pose, dontcha think?