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    Joy.

    Swing set joy, part of a series for Safe Routes Partnership | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    Racing past the crowd.

    Racing past the crowd in the middle leg of a 3x800. | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    Alice leaps into the future: for the BTA Alice Awards

    Alice leaps into the future: for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance Alice Awards | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    The incredible flying artist George Wehn

    The incredible flying artist George Wehn | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    A first-time archer focuses on the target with everything she's got.

    A first time archer draws her bow, focuses on the target, and lets loose. | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    A jet ski hurtles toward the sun near Bandon, Oregon.

    Catching air on a jet ski, Bandon Oregon | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    Finding the perfect spot for surf casting, Point Reyes, California

    Finding the perfect spot for surf casting, McClures Beach, Point Reyes, California | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    Two rugby teams scrum on the pitch

    Two rugby teams from different eras scrum on the pitch | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    The tighthead prop bears down

    The tighthead prop bears down on his opponent | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    Rugby: ball out

    Rugby: ball out | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    Pounding the living rock at the Neandergames.

    Pounding the living rock at the Neandergames | © Matt Giraud Photography
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    A Portland Neandergames contestant stands ready for action.

    Ready for action in the Neandergames, a stonemason's competition | © Matt Giraud Photography | © Matt Giraud Photography
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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.
    Swing set joy, part of a series for Safe Routes Partnership | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • The action isn’t always where the crowd is looking. My godson races past them in the middle leg of the 3x800.
    Racing past the crowd in the middle leg of a 3x800. | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • 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.
    Alice leaps into the future: for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance Alice Awards | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • The incredible flying artist George Wehn.
    The incredible flying artist George Wehn | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • 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 first time archer draws her bow, focuses on the target, and lets loose. | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • A jet ski hurtles toward the sun off the beach at Bandon, Oregon.
    Catching air on a jet ski, Bandon Oregon | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • 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.”
    Finding the perfect spot for surf casting, McClures Beach, Point Reyes, California | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • Two rugby teams from different eras scrum on the pitch
    Two rugby teams from different eras scrum on the pitch | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • The tighthead prop bears down on his opponents' loosehead as the sides scrum down
    The tighthead prop bears down on his opponent | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • 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.
    Rugby: ball out | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • 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.
    Pounding the living rock at the Neandergames | © Matt Giraud Photography
  • 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.
    Ready for action in the Neandergames, a stonemason's competition | © Matt Giraud Photography | © Matt Giraud Photography
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