Better later-er-er than never-er-er.

Potomac Velo Club's Wednesdays at Wakefield series is in full swing. In fact, it's 75% done and, were it not for a fortuitous thunderstorm this afternoon, would be 100%.



I was out of town for the first race, but shot the second and third. The shot above might be my favorite (personally shot) mountain bike race photo ever. I tried to re-create the magic the following race, but the lack of dust in the air made the shots less magical.






The third race in the series may have been the first W@W race at which I spent zero time shooting the downhill woop-de-do section. That section usually gets you the best air-catching shots, but after years of parking myself there, I need to find new angles. Stay tuned for the resulting photos.

Better late than never!

Oh hi.



I just realized that Potomac Velo was directing people here to view my pix of their Greenbrier Challenge MTB race. I shoulda figured that out weeks ago, but as I haven't gotten any angry emails, I'm guessing I haven't had much traffic 'round these parts.

Anyway, the photos from the race are hosted (for the time being) on my Pbase site, here:

http://www.pbase.com/gmr2048/2011greenbrier

I'll also update the list over there

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at some point and put Greenbrier at the top.

Ahhh, blog. Welcome.

So welcome back, faithful blog!

I changed domain registrars from that hideous, busy-paged, up-selling, misogynistic, elephant killing GoDaddy to the white, clean and neat Hover.com. Took me a couple of days to work out the DNS forwards and settings so we were offline for a bit...but I doubt anybody noticed. And we're back!

This past weekend I shot the Potomac Velo Greenbrier Challenge MTB race in Boonsboro, MD. The photos should be posted tonight or tomorrow. I'll post again when they are. I just wanted to post something so people wouldn't think this page had gone the way of the dinosaur.

Aieeee! Crap! Last week's Wednesday at Wakefield race

So I meant to post this last week when it wasn't a week late, but work got the best of me...

I got out last week to shoot the second of Potomac Velo Club's Wednesdays at Wakefield mountain bike race series. The night was cool and comfortable (compared to what's predicted for tomorrow's event). The shooting with the new 7D was amazing. I fired off roughly 1,070 images and of them, about 1,040 were keepers. Maybe not Sports Illustrated-keepers, but keepers.

Here are a few favorites:


Crossin' 'em up.


A bit of Photoshopery for fun.


Fast corner.

The rest of the gallery can be found here (and in the links over on the left). Hopefully this week's race will be a bit more timely spoken of.

Oh, for those of you into that sorta thing, I created a Facebook page or group or something. Come on over and join in the fun. Ok, so there's not much "fun" there yet, but I'm hoping fun people show up and bring some "fun" along with 'em. And beer. Bring beer, too.