Photo Credit

Last year’s Winter Rally Program, then still titled Shop Rag, was very well received. In fact, due to the significant feedback, it was decided that it should be an ongoing Winter Rally offering. However, as the producer, I decided the Shop Rag name should continue to represent Mr. Singer’s newsletters. So from this year forward it will simply be the Winter Rally Program.

Last year’s rally theme and program was the 40 year history of the rally. So the articles and images largely focused on past rallies and club members.

The quality of last year’s images was poor due to the fact that most were taken many years ago with old technology. This year I wanted to bring the image quality up to current standards.

Last year also saw BMW Performance Center Training for the first time. The addition of BMW training, & the growing adventure riding trend, led to the decisions to focus this year’s program on adventure related content and cover image.

Knowing my opportunities to produce the needed images myself would be limited, I started to search for images online. I soon found exactly what I needed on BikeReview.com.au. I reached out to them requesting permission to use one of their images. They were very supportive and provided multiple images, most of which worked better than the one I requested. This year’s cover image and the background image on this double page spread were both graciously provided by BikeReview.com.au.