Selected by Scott Secco - Laurence's Deep Summer show made incredible use of smoke machines and lighting to give us a really unique look at Whistler. Although it could have been that Ollie was so fast he literally set the trail on fire behind him...
if you need a smoke machine to make an interesting photo, well then you just shouldn't.
the leaned over (or is it cornering, i can't tell due to the smoke) manual or wheelie looks cool though. props to the rider, too bad the photo is silly.
I don't think he needed the smoke to make it interesting, it's more so just because he wanted to try it as an effect. It's 'art' - and you know how art can be all hard and shit to understand sometimes... kinda like magnets? How the @#% do they work?
I agree with mbilechernobyl. Artists are allowed to do what they please in their attempts to conjure up their "perfect" shot. Maybe it didn't work this time, but there is a neat effect that it accomplishes.