Picture Of the Month - April

May 6, 2010
by Jason Peters  
Picture Of the Month is here yet again, this time for the month of April.

To view last month's POM check here.

Make the jump to see April's top five!At this time last year I had an idea to put a month's worth of PODs head to head and see which one would win. After crunching the numbers and writing the article the winner was a photo by a friend of mine, but relatively un-known photographer, Justin Brantley. The article named Picture of the month - April never saw the main page. After the rejection, POM would lie dormant for six months until December 1st, 2009. Ever since that time POM has hit the front page of Pinkbike every month.

A year later I welcome you to Picture Of the Month - April 2010. By now you should know the drill, I pick the top five PODs from the previous month using a simple yet affective formula, Views divided by fav's, lowest number wins.

The last photo of April will be the first image on our list this month.

#5

Hucking its self into number five is a photo from Caine with a score of 31.9325.

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#4

Robin is a regular to POM and visits us this month as well. The Death manual gets a score of 31.535

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#3

Filip Polc whips his way into number 3 with a score of 30.52. Nice job Buenavibra

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#2

Bar to bar passes while ripping DH is always fun and Mtbfoto captured that moment. #2 has a score of 30.404

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#1

This pair of Demos find their way on the top step of the POM podium. Bismojo got a score of 29.60

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That's all for this month, if you like POM make sure to let us know!

- JP
Don't forget to show me some love and rock my T Shirt!

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35 Comments
  • 16 2
 No dj shots, that's surprising.
  • 6 3
 yeah but they are still sick
  • 48 13
 Thank gawd for no DJ shots. they all look the same
  • 14 15
 No they don't man, Brandonc Semenuk's 720 will be the #1 for May POM!
  • 10 0
 the thing with this is that the pods from earlier in the month have had more time to accumulate favs than the pods at the end of the month. theres nothing you could really do about it though
  • 6 0
 that's not necessarily true because most of the score comes from the day they're POD... a week later they do get some more favs and all but still i don't think it matters too much
  • 3 0
 forth one down isnt very good,not even POD worthy in my opinion
  • 3 1
 "This pair of Demos find their way on the top step of the POM podium. Bismojo got a score of 29.60"
there are three demos
  • 1 2
 there are two demos, one in number 2 and one in number one
  • 3 0
 trust lock n load he knows because there is a 3rd guy in the background with another demo']
  • 1 1
 ohhhhh my b
  • 3 2
 I love the POM idea, but none of these photos really strike me as fantastic. I like #4, because of rider ability with decent photographer skills, but none of the other four really stand out to me. Some interesting riding, sure, but that's about it.
Props to the photographers for getting their stuff in the POM though.
  • 1 0
 ahhhhhhhh, so it doesnt take ability and determination so hck that gap in #5?
  • 1 0
 huck*... my bad.
  • 1 0
 No, it does, but that photo is certainly nothing impressive. Standard angle, composition looks as if it was taken with a 4MP point and shoot on "auto", overexposed tree on the right is distracting... The riding? Pretty decent. Would I hit that? Hell no. Props to the rider, but not necessarily the photographer.
  • 1 0
 love the #1 pic. the fact that theres another rider coming up in the background is cool too. great timing, fun picture. i like all of these choices, and i agree with the reflections from campofchampions above on the number of skilled photog's in mtn biking. duly appreciated.
  • 1 0
 Where is the other guy?
  • 1 0
 hes to the right of the bush
  • 1 0
 Oops, i was thinking the top picture was number one.
  • 1 0
 I love this top 5,the only thing i'd have done to change it is keep it in this order but just reverse the results,that number 5 deffo deserves number 1,it is flawless,but we as a community have spoken,so,let it be,just a shame,cos thet're all mint photo's and the fact they're all in the POM's,is credit enough.
Gringo.Beer tup Cool Beer
  • 4 0
 Awesome as always JP!
  • 3 1
 2rd was my fav. dident think no.1 was quite right not sure about it somehow tho
  • 4 0
 2rd? Is that less than 2nd but not quite 3rd?
  • 1 0
 Second was my fave out of them all too
  • 1 0
 ohhh woops, i ment to put 2nd and 3rd were my favorites. lol
  • 1 0
 Yeah Chris up there in 4th, there werent many dj pod's this month were there?
  • 1 0
 Good selections. It's great there are so many good photographers in biking. Keep pushing guys, it's appreciated.
  • 1 0
 Nice pic Wink and huge gap !
  • 1 0
 Perfect order, number one is amazing!
  • 1 0
 nice man keep it up i love the POM idea
  • 1 0
 Sweet, all great pictures!
  • 1 0
 the first pic is awesome! Excellent POM.
  • 1 0
 Awesome, i love POM and am gutted it started a year ago and i didn't know
  • 1 0
 what ever happened with the Sea Otter photo contest?
  • 1 0
 I like POM! keep it up!







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