Now comes word that freelance shooting star Joe Bonnello’s back in the hospital as a result of neck surgery reportedly gone awry. Fellow photographer Stephan Legrand’s set up a PayPal site for fans of Joe’s unique vision and incredible depth of work, necessary because the passion that drives the best in the business isn’t compensated by the bean counters who treat editorial art as a commodity.

If you don’t know the name, you can’t help but to have seen his work, particularly as a chronicler of the motocross action genre. One of the top three rules of action still photography is the ability to impart a sense of motion into what otherwise would be a static staged shot, and Joe did it effortlessly.