{"id":3106,"date":"2019-11-17T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bristolphotoblog.com\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2019-11-13T15:20:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:20:23","slug":"red-bull-hardline-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/red-bull-hardline-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull Hardline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was a bit of throwback for me. I first really got into photography in the late 90s photographing friends riding downhill and BMX in a small Welsh town. Despite working for clients in the cycling industry it had been a while since I covered a race (especially one with a handful of runs in glorious Welsh weather).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" src=\"https:\/\/bristolphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RedBull_Hardline_01-1300x867.jpg\" alt=\"Race founder Gee Atherton races in the Red Bull Hardline 2019\" class=\"wp-image-3108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RedBull_Hardline_01-1300x867.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RedBull_Hardline_01-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RedBull_Hardline_01-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RedBull_Hardline_01-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RedBull_Hardline_01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RedBull_Hardline_01-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><figcaption>Race founder Gee Atherton races in the Red Bull Hardline 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>But this is the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Red Bull Hardline (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redbull.com\/gb-en\/events\/red-bull-hardline\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bull Hardline<\/a>. So I couldn&#8217;t say no &#8211; plus I&#8217;d actually looked at the race a few weeks before and wondered about heading up to Snowdonia anyway to shoot it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1300\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/bristolphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RedBull_Hardline_09-1300x844.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Molloy races in the Red Bull Hardline 2019\" class=\"wp-image-3109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RedBull_Hardline_09-1300x844.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RedBull_Hardline_09-1024x665.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RedBull_Hardline_09-800x519.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RedBull_Hardline_09-768x499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RedBull_Hardline_09-1536x997.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RedBull_Hardline_09-2048x1330.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><figcaption>Harry Molloy participates in the Red Bull Hardline 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I raced for a while in my early 20s and there&#8217;s nothing like a watching elite level riders to make you realise how far away you are\/were from turning professional!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Red Bull Hardline photographed for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Red Bull (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redbull.com\/gb-en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bull<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"TNR (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wearetnr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TNR<\/a>, September 2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Recent work by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/adamgasson.com\/\">Bristol photographer<\/a>&nbsp;Adam Gasson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a bit of throwback for me. I first really got into photography in the late 90s photographing friends riding downhill and BMX in a small Welsh town. Despite working for clients in the (&hellip;) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/red-bull-hardline-photos\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,126,8,9,15],"tags":[182,224,223,30,177,183,85,196,156,303,304,302,301,27,17,299,300],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bikes","category-features","category-news","category-sport","category-work","tag-advertising-photographer","tag-bike-photography","tag-bikes","tag-bristol","tag-bristol-photographer","tag-commercial-photographer","tag-cycling","tag-cycling-photography","tag-cyclist","tag-downhill","tag-downhill-photography","tag-mountain-bike-photography","tag-mountain-biking","tag-photographer","tag-photography","tag-red-bull-hardline","tag-red-bull-hardline-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}