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Utah local photographer Adam Barker wins X Games gold medal for action sports photography.
SALT LAKE CITY — Competing against top international photographers, Adam Barker has won a coveted X Games gold medal for action sports photography with an epic shot.
The biannual contest takes place on a curated extreme sports photography gallery called Zoom. According to the site, a week and a half before the X Games start, six finalist entries are chosen by the X Games content team and voted for by public fans.
The winning photo is of professional Utah skier Julian Carr, who is doing his signature swan dive front flip off a cliff at Brighton Resort. Utah fans showed a lot of love because Barker’s photo of Carr won by a landslide with 37.1 percent of the votes.
The winners were announced just after the last X Games event ended Sunday night. In an interview, Barker said he waited with his family to watch the results live on television.
Along with the medal, he was awarded $10,000 and the added bonus of his picture being published in the next ESPN magazine. It was also put on display at the X Games events in Aspen this year.
Barker said that the most engaging way the X Games featured the top photos was by putting them in large 40-by-60 light boxes displayed at the venue.
According to his website, Barker is an active lifestyle and outdoor photographer who has done commercial work for a variety of companies, including Nike, Deer Valley Resort, Panasonic, Patagonia, Volkswagen of America, and many more.
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Love the picture! Awesome! It reminds me of someone dear to me. ❤️
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I was skiing Kirkwood many
I was skiing Kirkwood many years ago and they had one of these extreme events going on the same day. They held it on the Cirque which is usually closed. It wouldn't normally be a that big a deal, but it was one of those days where it had gotten up to the mid 40's the day before, and then the temp dropped - it was overcast on the day of the contest, and below freezing. They were doing 20 foot drops off of cliffs onto hard frozen Sierra cement landings. Just crazy on a whole different level.
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Cool. GoodGunnar and the ever-amazing Utah Jen re-appear on the same thread? Yee-haw!
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Awww, hi Slick!!