Feels like winter is upon us, so let’s celebrate the colder months through some fine wintry sporting photography.

Thusly;

Ski instructing legend and all round nice guy Darren Turner.

The guy on the floor would also qualify for your ‘Friday Performance and Photography Thread – the “Best Facial Expression” Edition’, which I’ve been expecting for some Fridays now. 🙂

Requests now? Next week, then? 🙂

i do love a german speed skater…… 8)

Got to have a little skeleton, no?

It could be a teddy bears face next time.

That “Yowsers!” moment

How I forgot the skier jumping out of a helicopter shot is beyond me. Anyhoo, here’s…

But give me a chance and I’d go for the jump-over-the-moving-train option any day.

Here is a pic of a kitten riding a polar bear.

This seems to be a lot of STWers idea of winter sports…

wwaswas, that’s superb! The mud spray almost looks fake!

Another all round nice guy – Woodsy. (Who’s on quite a roll of form recently, fingers crossed for another stomping season!)

Pfft, lightweight skiier-ists! This is how you drop in off a ‘copter:

Californian rider Mike Basich

A couple of photos from Canada…

A good day in the Canadian Rockies….

Mount Sparrowhawk by Mark and Liz in Canada, on Flickr