BMX

This was the first time I had ever seen BXM either live or on TV.  It was a lot of fun and I only got to see time trials (which means there's only one rider on the course at a time). Can't even imagine how wild it would be with multiple riders on the course at the same time.

This rider from Latvia is about to take a spill.  If you don't like the sight of blood, skip the next picture.

While you normally want to stop the action in most sports photography situations, it doesn't always work so well for cycling.  I did such a good job in stopping the action in the above photo that you can't even tell if the bike is moving or not; there's no movement in either the wheels/spokes or in the rider's feet/legs.  For all you know, the rider is simply balancing on a still bike.

To give a picture the feel of motion, photographers will often use a technique called panning. Panning helps create a sense of motion in photographs by blurring the background while keeping the foreground object primarily in focus.  I used this technique to capture the following photos:

I think these photos give a much better sense of racing compared to the picture of the still bike above.