Here’s the latest from the Leader team, featuring Devin enjoying the last bit of Summer. Glad to see video clips from some of Brenton Salo‘s photos. Especially the rail hop.
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Brenton Salo: Sharky’s Heart Knees
Photo by Brenton Salo
Seeing Sharky in Portland can be described as seeing a “ball of muscle” wound up and spinning on his track bike. Brenton happened to get a great shot of Sharky at rest, with his knee tattoos in focus. Great photo man.
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Brenton Salo: Devin Tolman Tire Grab
Photo by Brenton Salo
Brenton is pretty much the man when it comes to shooting FGFS action with film. Need proof? How’s this photo of Devin hitting a tire grab? Connection made, on film. That’s skill on both sides of the lens.
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Brenton Salo: West America
Photos by Brenton Salo
West America is a very simple and yet, very well branded and executed company spearheaded by Jordan and James. They’re not planning to change the world through the everyday, but they do plan to make the everyday with a little more craft and care. Brenton Salo recently visited Hufnagle’s quarters and shot a few photos of the space. Head over to his Tumblr to see more and head here, to the West America site to check out what they’re all about.
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Brenton Salo: Tonic Fab Cross
Photos by Brenton Salo
I’m not sure if this particular Tonic is classified as their Magnum CX but if any of their bikes deserve to be called magnum, it’s this beast. Oversise HT, dampened wishbone stay and disks? This is a gravel-grinding, cowbell chiming good time just waiting to happen. See more details of this gorgeous example of American steel at Brenton Salo’s Flickr.
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Brenton Salo: Team Sizzle Pie at Alpenrose
Photo by Brenton Salo
Brenton recently spent some time at the Alpenrose Velodrome with Team Sizzle Pie, a Portland-based racing squad. He shot a bunch of great medium format photos. You should really check the rest out at his Flickr.
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Brenton Salo: Ira Ryan and His Road
Photo by Brenton Salo
Coming off his Guest Gallery is this portrait Brenton took of Portland framebuilder Ira Ryan. This is a great photo, Ira’s a great dude and that’s an awesome bicycle. The original version of this photo was mirrored (scanned), so I flipped it. Hope you don’t mind man!
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Brenton Salo at Ira Ryan Cycles
Portland has got to be home to more frame builders per mile than anywhere else in the world. It’s staggering to go down the list of talented individuals who inhabit that great city. Also calling Portland home are a few great photographers. One of which is someone who I’ve come to admire over the years. Brenton Salo is a phenomenal photographer. He effortlessly mixes digital with analog photography and much like modern, steel framebuilders, there’s an artwork to this talent.
I reached out to Brenton and asked him to document one such artisan. Ira Ryan, like Brenton, creates works of art with his hands and tools. He uses his eyes and his hands to shape perfection. His workspace, like many builders, is rich with textures, tools and hidden treasures. See for yourself as Brenton displays both digital and medium format photography below.
Click on the above photo to launch the gallery, or here to open in a new tab.
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Brenton Salo: Vivalo Reflections
Photo by Brenton Salo
This was one of my favorite bikes I got to photograph last year when I was in Portland. I can’t say no to a purple track bike and Mr. Salo returns with more reflections…
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Brenton Salo: Cannondale Track Reflection
Photo by Brenton Salo
Brenton Salo is the king of photographing bicycle reflections. It’s gotta be a contextual thing since the Pacific Northwest is always wet. This Cannondale portrait is pretty rad and I’m guessing it’s Patrick’s from PC? Check out more at Brenton’s blog.
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Brenton Salo: Content in Process – Cadence
Photo by Brenton Salo
While in SF, Brenton visited the studio of Dustin from Cadence Collection. He’s got a series of photos, in various formats on his blog and Flickr, so head over and check them out. This one’s my favorite of the batch.
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Brenton Salo: Tyler Johnson Reflection
Photo by Brenton Salo
In this case, the description of “reflection” has dual meanings and Brenton Salo is the master of both. Solid photography, as always. Loving this portrait of Tyler Johnson.
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Brenton Salo: Reflecting
Photo by Brenton Salo
We’ve been having a ton of rain here in Austin for the past week, which has me focusing a lot on the various puddles. It’s not often that we get rain like this. Riding a bike can be a drag when it’s pouring but oftentimes, when you embrace it, you can have fun. Which brings me to one of my favorite photos by Brenton Salo. I don’t think I’ve seen a better skid photo than this one in years and it’s from 2009.
