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It's ISDE time again!!
Thought I'd share some images from this year's International Six Days Enduro that was held in Kosice, Slovakia, located in far eastern Slovakia.
Be patient if you're interested in seeing more ISDE pictures as I'll update this thread with about 25 photos over the next day or so.
This year marked my 20th year as a photojournalist covering the event, my first year was in 1993. Over the years my images have been published in Cycle World, Cycle News, Dirt Rider, Dirt Bike, American Motorcyclist and Racer-X in print and electronic forms.
Like the last couple of years the images found within this Team USA ISDE thread are some of the proofs made available to the American Motorcyclist Association for use in their commemorative photo album that features one shot of each of the 32 American riders that rode in this year's ISDE as well as a couple dozen "B-roll" images that captures some of the ambiance that surrounds the event.
When I say proofs I mean that they are lightly processed in Lightroom and loosely cropped which leaves plenty of room for a copy editor to “tighten up” the images as they see fit.
I shoot the complete project in photo documentary style where the “strongest” images can stand on their own with the “lessor” images meant to be viewed as part of the whole photo project.
The greatest challenge for the photo book is coming up with 32 different images of each of the individual American riders with different set ups, back grounds etc. when you don't know which rider is even going to finish the six day event.
This year the US team lost 4 of its 32 riders during the six day endurance event unfortunately two came from the six-rider US Trophy Team and the other two came from the four-ride US Junior trophy Team which effectively put both teams out of contention for a podium finish in the team divisions.
US Trophy Team rider Ryan Sipes won the overall individual title, the first time a US rider has ever won the individual overall in the nearly 100 year history of the event (The US has been competing regularly at Six Days since the early 60’s.
I hope you enjoy the images.
Steve Berkner
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Edited on Dec 10, 2015 at 08:18 PM · View previous versions
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