Here are a couple of images I took at the weekend in Timahoe, Co. Laois. Pretty harsh environment for taking pictures as the dust was everywhere. Luckly I had two camera bodies and didn’t need to change lens which would have been a complete no no.
First one is cracker. Compositionally, its nice how the rider sits between the dust on the left and the sky on the right. And I like how the rock in the bottom right balances the frame. Your timing is perfect – as he turns through the jump.
It looks like the sun was pretty harsh. Perhaps a little flash would have helped to add detail to the rider and make him pop from the background.
The rider in the second shot is really sharp, but I prefer the composition of the first.
I have a number of shots where the rider is just a silhouette and I should have used fill-in flash to get around the cast of the sun. I had fun cleaning out the dust from the lens and cameras later.