Deep Summer Photo Challenge At Crankworx Wildcard Contest Closes Today

The Deep Summer Photographer Challenge will return to Crankworx Whistler on August 13, 2014 and has invited five pro photographers from around the world, each of whom brings a unique and impressive mountain biking portfolio to the slideshow contest. This year’s lineup of photographers showcases talents from Italy, Germany, Australia, the United States and an up-and-coming photographer from Whistler, B.C. The Pinkbike Deep Summer Wildcard Search also begins on June 11 to invite another photographer to the event with the help of online voters.

- Crankworx General Manager Darren Kinnaird

The five pro photographers set to storm the Whistler Mountain Bike Park and create a slideshow to be shown on Wednesday, August 13, are:


• Ale Di Lullo (Lake Garda, Italy) - www.aledilullo.com
• Paris Gore (Bellingham, Washington) - www.parisgore.com
• Christoph Laue (Stuttgart, Germany) - www.christophlaue.com
• Toby Cowley (Toowoomba, Australia) - tobycowleyphoto.com
• Sean St. Denis (Whistler, BC) - www.seanstdenisphotography.com


The Pinkbike Deep Summer Wildcard Search will determine the sixth photographer to join the competition. See Pinkbike.com at this link for details and dates for the Pinkbike Deep Summer Wildcard Photographer Search: www.pinkbike.com/contest/deepsummer/

The Deep Summer Photo Challenge will take place under the stars at the spectacular Whistler Olympic Plaza again in 2014. Priority seating and close sightlines to giant HD screens will be on offer with a number of ticketed seats available for $5. The area beyond the ticketed seating will be available for spectators to take in the Deep Summer Photo Challenge free of charge.

The photographers will rally their chosen athlete teams to embark on three days of intense shooting and editing commencing Saturday, August 9. Slideshows will be handed in by the end of the day Tuesday, August 12. Then on Wednesday, August 13, a massive crowd will experience deep summer in Whistler through the lenses of six elite mountain bike photographers with first place taking home $5,000, second place $3,000, and third place $2,000.

Think your photo skills are up to the task? Entries close 11:59PM PDT Saturday, June 21st.

Enter the Deep Summer Wildcard Search
For inspiration check out Nicholas Teichrob's winning slideshow from 2013.

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A gathering of the bike-minded, Crankworx brings together the world’s downhill, slopestyle and enduro legends, with the Superfans, the rising stars, the industry’s innovators and the next generation of mountain bike riders for ten days of contests, concerts, culture and cranking.

August 8-17, Whistler, BC, hosts mountain biking’s defining celebration. An event so awesome it broke the dictionary. Nowhere else will you see competitors of this calibre gathered in one place. Nowhere else offers as many opportunities for athletes to launch themselves into professional careers. Nowhere else blurs the line between participant and spectator. Nowhere else exposes the cult of the fat tire from as many angles, with as much spectacle and celebration. Anointed by dirt, aligned with gravity, powered by passion - Crankworx combines it all.