Done!

Ok, all of my shots of the 6/25/2008 W@W race have been posted (thanks to Potomac Velo for the link from the official page!). My gallery is here. See you guys next Wednesday.

Work in progress.

I've got the shots from both the 5:30pm race and the 6pm race posted. I'll get the 7pm race up tomorrow (Saturday).

Standard disclaimers apply: These were quickly (and ham-handedly) resized and sharpened for the web. Electronic copies are free for the taking (for non-commercial use). Right click, save-as, done. If you want to buy a full-sized, lovingly processed digital or print version (assuming the full-res image is up to snuff), without copyright text, contact me at gmr2048 at yahoo-dot-com and we'll work out the details. If you want to use a shot commercially, contact me and we'll figure that out, too.

With a steady flow of riders finishing one race and starting the next, sometimes determining which riders belonged to which group was difficult. So I had to make some guesses. If you were running in the back of the 6pm pack, check the 7pm photo set. I may have accidentally put you in with the wrong group.

W@W2008, v1.0

**UPDATE** All shots from the 530pm, 6pm and 7pm races are up (plus a few shots of racers pre-riding the course). The gallery is here.

I shot the first Wednesday@Wakefield race of the 2008 season last night. I haven't had a chance to slog through all of the images yet, but I did find this one that I thought I'd throw online as a placeholder. More to come.



Note to self: Flash photography is hard. Trust your f/1.4 lens more next time.

Being there

This past Sunday saw the 2008 edition of the "12 Hours of Lodi Farm" mountain bike race in Fredricksburg, VA. Hard as it may be to believe, I actually managed to drag my butt out to shoot it. I was out "in the field" from about 8pm Saturday till 2pm Sunday with naught but a two hour nap between 5am and 7am Sunday. I have no idea how all of those solo racers can actually ride a bike for 12 hours. I could barely walk back to the truck from shooting in the woods at 5am without falling over. Kudos racers.

All of my straight-outta-the-camera shots are on my Pbase site.



As an aside, I've been trying to come up with a way to make the best use of my two paid photo services: Pbase (good for mass image storage and grouping by event) and Flickr (good for general photo exposure and comments/critiques). I think my new plan is to dump every decent image from any given event to Pbase, and then edit/tweak/process my favorite shots and shots of friends and post those to Flickr (with a link back to Pbase site for anybody who wants to wade through all of the images). This, in my mind, seems like a good use of the two services.

I took the liberty of liberating somebody else's map of the trail network at Lodi from the official race web page. They had it as a 7MB TIFF download. There's no need for that. I converted it to a JPG and reduced its size by an order of magnitude to about 600kb. Much more handy size.