Scott Jones:

If I’m honest, at the time I wasn’t thinking at all about trying to catch Marc Marquez in mid-air. I merely hoped to catch someone with both wheels off the ground.

I knew Turn 1 was a high speed section of Laguna Seca’s layout, and for this reason you don’t often see photographers there. MotoGP bikes are going somewhere around 165mph as they crest the hill and turn slightly left, too fast for even the best pro DSLRs and lenses to track focus.

This article combines two of my passions – motorcycling and photography. Jones is an incredible MotoGP photographer and the story of this amazing image is a combination of luck, perseverance, skill, equipment, and a talented shooter all coming together to get The Perfect Shot. Imagine trying to get a specific image (both wheels off the ground, race winner, etc.) of a motorcycle traveling at 165mph coming up over a blind hill.