Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/09/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The blood type isn't here in Texas at least on their helmet. The facial expression of the cyclist exemplifies one of the reasons top level athletes are top level: they are willing to put their bodies further to the edge and train to get to that edge of performance. On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 12:18 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > Last week, Tuesday, the 10th stage of the Vuelta a Espa?a bicycle race was > a 31 km individual time trial from Elche to Alicante, along roads which are > also part of my cycling route, albeit at a somewhat lower speed (the best > cyclists completed the ITT with an average speed of about 55 km/h). I took > the day off to have a look. After experimenting with various vantage > points, I went to a large roundabout called Plaza Luceros, a couple of > hundred meters from the finish line. The advantage of this spot was that > the curve forced the cyclists to slow down a little, thus increasing my > percentage of successful images. > > I took about 70 photos, here are 3 of them for an appetiser. > > Alejandro Valverde, a Spanish cyclist is a true phenomenon, and one of the > cyclists I really wanted to see. He is 42, and this is his last > professional season and thus his last Vuelta. To be able to compete at this > level at his age is amazing: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-qVCGwCR/A < > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-qVCGwCR/A> > > What I am usually after when photographing cycling are the facial > expressions of effort and suffering, the essence of the sport. Here, French > cyclist Nans Peters is providing me with both: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-Kvtq3c2/A < > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-Kvtq3c2/A> > > In a time trial, the cyclists start 2 minutes apart, so you have some > natural breaks in the action. I used those to turn my camera on the > spectators and other details. One of those details that caught my attention > was the helmet of this motorcycle cop, with his blood type on the back. I > don?t know if this is done in other countries, but it does seem like a > sensible precaution: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-HXPGNSW/A < > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-HXPGNSW/A> > > More to come once I have processed my Scotland photos from earlier in the > week. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > YNWA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Don don.dory at gmail.com