BMX Luck

Andrew Wickham does a trick on a BMX bicycle in front of the Chapel at University of Georgia on Tues., Jan 26, 2010 in Athens, Ga.

Every once in awhile, the photo gods smile on you.

I was walking across campus to an otherwise unphotogenic assignment through the blustery wind and out of the corner of my eye, i saw this guy doing tricks on a BMX bike in front of the Chapel.

I knew that one story had already fallen through visually and what i was off to photograph was something that was photographed two or three times last week. So if i could pull off a dominant visual, it could lead the front page. Such is the way of life in community journalism.

I worked it for about 10 minutes, made a few nice frames and the one above ended up the front page image.