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Desert freeride
Professional extreme sports shooter Daniel Bear unveils his experience of a mountain biking photography project in the desert
Or gets some air time, with the massive northern wall of the Ramon Crater in the background.
In spring 2020, the global pandemic brought me back home from spending winter in the Austrian Alps to Mitzpe Ramon in the Negev Desert in Southern Israel. It’s a small town with an exhilarating landscape and the largest natural erosion crater in the world. During this period, I decided to take up a project on freeriding around my hometown: if I wasn’t able to shoot winter sports on the snowy mountains, I’d shoot mountain biking on the desert ridges.