Matt Giraud : Photographs : Action

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Joy.

How do we get back here more often?

Part of a series for Safe Routes Partnership, a national non-profit focused on getting kids of all ages more active and healthy.
The action isn’t always where the crowd is looking. My godson races past them in the middle leg of the 3x800.
For the BTA Alice Awards, an image of Alice leaping into the future and a new organizational mission: advocating not just for bikes, but for walking and transit as well. It was a dramatic and risky move considering its core membership of avid bicycle advocates (understandably skeptical about diluting the organization's focus), so I positioned the BTA's new bike-walk-transit focus as an amplification, taking the BTA 'to the power of three.' Along with a core event brand identity, I created posters, a program and a slideshow anchored by dynamic images symbolizing an organization in motion.
The incredible flying artist George Wehn.
Her first time drawing a bow, she traces back and forth the imaginary line between the end of her arrow and the center of her target, and wills with all her might to connect the two. And then, away.
A jet ski hurtles toward the sun off the beach at Bandon, Oregon.
David Hopkins had it all wrong. He hadn’t planned on fishing the surf that weekend, so he was dressed wrong, he was set up wrong, he was thinking wrong – like a normal person just out to enjoy an afternoon on the beaches of Pt Reyes with his friends.

But as the fog suddenly rolled away, and the water and wind calmed just so, what was moments before a fine stroll became something else entirely: a beach to fish.

He grabbed the trout rod he always kept in the back of his truck, and he began to read the beach, the breaks, where the sun hit the surf, where it cast shadows. Barred Surf Perch, Halibut, or Striped Bass might be out there, but he knew he had no right to them, set up as he was.

Until he began pulling them out. “The gods rolled out a perfect day,” he says, “and allowed a foolish mortal to achieve some success.”
Two rugby teams from different eras scrum on the pitch
The tighthead prop bears down on his opponents' loosehead as the sides scrum down
In a game that pitted players from the 1980s against those from the 2000s, the older team's scrum half still has the moves: ball out.
Stonemason Matt Goddard cleaves a rock in two during a competition at the Neandergames. 5 stones are set up on tree stumps down the length of a course, and contestants try to break each in series as quickly as they can. I ran ahead of them, trying to get as close to the point of impact as I could without suffering the same fate as the stones.
A Portland Neandergames contestant stands ready for action. The Neandergames is a friendly gathering of stonemasons and their friends and families centered around unusual competitions of strength and stoneworking skill. At first look, it feels pretty macho, but look below the surface and you'll find a generous group of thoughtful, humble men who love turning rock into art.