American Football in Poland
Today took place the first match in Gdynia of the 2013 American Football season (and second of the season – they hammered Warsaw 2 weeks ago 0:48). Gdynia Seahawks vs Katowice AZS Silesia Rebels. The match was very entertaining, the domination of Gdynia was unanswered and they finally beat Katowice 35-6. Big score, numerous touchdowns [...]
Lechia Gdańsk vs Wisła Kraków – 0:0
This was my second soccer match. Weather was so cold, and it was snowing most of the time. Just a detail, I took my Doc Martens because of the snow. Wrong. Very wrong move! Doc Martens are great shoes, but not when it’s freezing cold!!! Shoes are a very important piece of equipment for a [...]
Night of the Jumps – Episode VI – The Jumps
So, this is the last post on the Night of the Jumps. And there is going to have a lot of pictures. It was difficult at the beginning to take pictures. Never shot such an event. But after a while, and with a better location, everything went smoothly. I can’t wait to do it again. [...]
Night of the Jumps – Episode IV – Portraits
I went to photograph Night of the Jump this Saturday. Some crazy guys (strangely and sadly, there is no women doing that) jumping in the air on nice dirt bikes. It’s a show, only a show. The competition is just an act. The main purpose of this event is to entertain people. And it’s working [...]
Rugby: Sopot vs Gdańsk
I finally managed to photograph some real sport with my brand new 70-200. Before last Saturday, every time I was shooting sport, I was using my 60mm. My biggest lens for years. Not really the best of lens to photograph Rugby for exemple. But I always managed to make some good stuff. So when I [...]
Wrak Race V
Clic on the picture, and navigate with the arrows on your keyboard Sunday’s main attraction in Kolibki was the so well known Wrak Race (I wrote few words about it yesterday, remember?), plenty of wrecked cars racing around a dirty track and trying to finish “in one piece”. The attendance was huge because of the [...]
Dirt Jump in Gdynia
Gdynia Adventure Days is taking place this very sunny and warm week-end. Can’t say it’s a bad thing. Though some rain would be great for the Wrak Race V “Spadające opony” on Sunday, to make things kind of messy. So on Saturday morning we could enjoy BMX jumping, which is called Dirt Jump. A dozen [...]
Baltic Games 2012 – Portrait
All right lads, this is my last post of the Baltic Games 2012. Plenty of pictures, plenty of bad guys, few sexy chicks and all that in BW (-1). I think it gives them a more intimate feeling. Now, I can’t wait for next year. There was something quite special during these 3 days. It’s [...]
Baltic Games 2012 – II
Baltic Games. The largest extreme sports event in Poland took place this week-end. And that kicked some ass this year! But now it’s over. And it was a great edition this year. Mainly because it was in Ergo Arena, everything was “bigger”, the skate park, the crowd, the sound… 2’000m2 of playground, 2DJ’s playing all [...]
Baltic Games 2012 – I
Yesterday, Thursday, was the first day of the Baltic Games 2012. Only qualifications. Could only be there 2 hours as I was working in my restaurant today. So I don’t really have a lot of pictures to show you. I think the Skate Park is nicer this year, more spots, more possibilities. The other problem [...]
A Weekend of Rugby
If you didn’t know, we had the EURO 2012 in Poland… Thanks the other sports didn’t stop while the soccer players were running after their ball. We also had 2 rugby events this week-end in Tricity. On Saturday we had the Rugby 7 Extra-league Final and on Sunday took place the Poland Rugby Cup Final [...]
Michel Platini in Władysławowo – Now Try to Say That Last Word!
Today is the perfect time to thank my friend COPY/PASTE. Because without him I would have a lot of problem to write Władysławowo. It’s a small town, close to the sea. They have a Baseball team, a nice football field, plenty of shops and restaurants, as you would find in any town close to the [...]
EURO 2012 – Spain vs Croatia
Today was Spain vs Croatia. I think we had more fun during the day in the streets of Gdańsk than during the game this evening. I’m also very disappointed because I really wanted Italy to be eliminated. As much as I really like their Rugby team, I really don’t like at all their football team. [...]
EURO 2012 – Spain vs Ireland
Yesterday was Day Two of the EURO 2012, I mean for me. Because it has been a week since it started. We had a game in Gdańsk, Spain vs Ireland. If you like football and you follow this event in Poland/Ukraine, surely you noticed that we had some bad confrontations betweens supporters. Like few days [...]
XV Grand Prix Sopot
That’s a sport I used to do for a long time. I think over 10 years. Not in a row, but I loved it, even if I was not very good. I was specialized in 400m Hurdles. A very difficult race, but strangely, I always used to run faster a 400m hurdles than a 400m [...]
Euro 2012 – Day One
So it’s started today… You know what I’m talking about if you like football and you live in Europe. And even more if you live in Poland. As I do. I even live in a town where there will be some games. Like I already wrote many times on that blog, I don’t really like [...]
St Patrick’s Day
Tomorrow, it’s Paddy’s Day… May the force be with us! And beside that, it’s England vs Ireland. That’s rugby, and that’s going to be a great match. Hopefully Ireland will beat England. Actually, I’m quite sure it will be the case.
My Best of 2011
I have to admit that like to read these best of 2011. Sometimes it reminds us things we nearly forgot about, or something we really loved and we like reading that we weren’t the only ones to do so. I will do my own Best of 2011, starting with photography to finish with food, and [...]
Baltic Arena
That’s it. The stadium is finished. Actually it was finished few weeks ago. Still, there is things to build, create or renovate around, as well as plenty of roads near that place and all around Tricity to finalize… And frankly, thanks to EURO 2012 we will get decent roads now, because they were such in [...]
Stunt
Coming back from the restaurant, I saw these guy doing stunts. It was nice, reminds me of 15 years ago when I was doing supermoto with friends sometimes. I wasn’t very good, and my motorbike a bit heavy (Suzuki DR 650 RS – slightly modified) but I had great fun.
Baltic Games 2011
This year Baltic Games were better than last year. Better skate park, more international and good riders {Brad Simms, Scott Hamlin, etc.}, concerts, nice weather, happier fans… It was great.
