Michael Lokner Photographer and digital philosopherlokner(at)gmail.com
Project: Me, triathlete
Boost week
The event of the year (”Järnmannen”) is just 32 days away. Marcus has been training for this specific day for a long, long time. But this week is a bit special compared to a normal one. He will be training all the separate events (swimming, cycling and running), just as he does every week, but [...]
Project: Me, triathlete
What is triathlon?
If you would ask a random person to explain triathlon they would most likely say something like “Ironman, yeah I’ve heard about it” or “people doing that dedicate their whole life”. Well, it’s true that Ironman is a part of the triathlon concept, but not all triathletes will ever do a full length Ironman or [...]
Project: Me, triathlete
Exhibition
One of the goals with this project is to show a selection of the photos during an exhibition later this year. But as the title of this post says I will have a little mini exhibition already know.
From Sunday July 5th until Sunday August 2nd a small number of the photos will be put up [...]
Project: Me, triathlete
Swimming, the silent sport
Someone once told me that “all the greatest triathletes were swimmers from the start” and I guess that might be true. To stand out as one of the best triathletes you obviously need to be very talented in all three sports (swimming, cycling and running), but it’s without a question the first triathlon distance that [...]
Project: Me, triathlete
Photo test: cycle training
So where do you start on a project like this? Obviously for me as a photographer it’s all about the photos and since I’ve never used my camera to document an athlete before I had some very cloudy ideas about certain things.
Like bicycling. I mean, how the hell do you take nice documentary photos on [...]
Video
Peer pressure
When I decided to go for the newly released Nikon D90 it was partly because of the video functionality. The camera may perhaps not have the best video capabilities if compared to the Canon 5d M2, but if you look on “the bang for the buck” it’s one hell of good purchase.
So, when I was [...]