I’ve been shooting for…well, let’s just say that it’s been a few years. But the shot below still holds a special place in my heart. The rider is Mark Barnett, the year was 1981, the track is Saddleback, and this was the first shot that I’d had published in a motorcycle magazine. (It ran as a full-pager in MXA.)
Todd Huffman from The Motocross Files recently scanned it and sent me a copy. He’s working on The Bomber’s Motocross Files episode for this season, and apparently it was a shot that Mark had kept in his photo collection.
Actually, Todd was also around when I first spotted this one on the newsstand (we were BMX teammates and roommates at the time), and he still likes to tease me about how I was yelling while standing in front of the supermarket newsstand where I first spotted it in the magazine.
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