Jim Luning Photography was hired to film, photograph and shoot drone footage and stills for Mexico By Moto in January. Mexico By Moto is a Chicago-based motorcycle tour company that offers tours generally starting and stopping in Mexico City.
Jim has decades in the seat of all kinds of motorcycles in every condition, as well as shooting images from moving vehicles. Having one hand on the throttle, one hand on a camera, while splitting his focus shooting while watching for upcoming curves at full speed is a challenge Luning was uniquely adept to accomplish. Those skills were a baseline requirement for the 8 day 850 mile journey, riding one of the tours biggest KTM Adventure Bikes. The riding portion was a mix of twisting roads and highway through the mountains south and west of Mexico City and up to Angangueo (which is the winter home of the Monarch butterflies). The last stop before riding back into Mexico City was a sunrise balloon ride over the Teotihuacan Pyramids. Jim proved to be the perfect man for the job, with life and work experience melding resulting in promotional material that captured the tour’s the exhilaration and love of adventure.
See some of the project images below. For more of Jim’s work, visit his Workbook portfolio.
