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End of year retrospectives are a staple of the news media, Escape Collective included. Here, we wanted to look back at some of the best photos of the 2023 road season. We’re fortunate to work with some fantastic photographers, and foremost among them are the duo of Ashley and Jered Gruber, and Kristof Ramon.
Their work has illustrated much of our coverage this year and we literally couldn’t do it without them. So we wanted to highlight some of our favorites from their extensive portfolios of this year, and what better way to do it than to pick ones that you might want as your desktop background. Keep it fresh and swap to a new one each month, from three of the best.
Strade Bianche recon allows the Grubers the chance to pick angles like drone shots that are harder to pull off in the chaos of the race.In place of the traditional finish shot, this wide-angle composition has a certain stillness to it that belies the cacophony of the scene and the confusion that would follow.Two generational talents, pulled apart from the rest in a masterpiece of contrast and composition by the Grubers.An image that eloquently conveys Alison Jackson’s ebullient disbelief at her Paris-Roubaix win, even with her back to the camera.Flat light can make for flat photos, but on the snow-shortened Croix de Coeur stage at the Giro d’Italia, Kristof Ramon turns it to his advantage with a moody, almost foreboding image.It’s impossible for one image to convey the wild day that was the Monte Lussari time trial at the Giro, but this one comes very, very close.Yet another example of the Grubers’ unique eye for storytelling through composition and lighting.You wait a long time for a shot like this, and the opportunity comes and is gone again in seconds.The way the Grubers play with light and reflection produces dreamlike scenes.Framing and depth-of-field are key to this gorgeous, triumphant image of Lotte Kopecky vanquishing her rivals on the technical Glasgow World Championships course.Henri Cartier-Bresson popularized the term “the decisive moment,” but Kristof’s framing of the shot here is as important to the raw emotion of this photo as his timing.Perspective and scale on alpine stages can be devilishly difficult, but Kristof’s choices here perfectly distill the 2023 Vuelta a España.
