One Last Look - TdF 2010

If today you woke to no Phil and Paul, stared blankly at the TV screen and wondered what next? The maybe these will help with the cold turkey come down. Here's one last look at the 2010 Tour de France courtesy of the Boston Globe online and the great photographers that also rode over 3,600 kms in rain, sun, wind, cobbles and mountain cols to remind us what a beautiful sport this is.

PS - be sure to check out Part 1 from the link on their page

above photo copyright: Bogdan Cristel/REUTERS via Boston.com

Joe Dengel's Crash Takes the Grand Prize

Last night was the Awards for the 2009 Bicycling Northwest.com Bike Photo Contest presented by Pro Photo Supply. Despite a civil war football game distraction we had a nice group of the winners and friends gather at the Lucky Lab NW for a bite, a pint (or two) and a look at all the entries as well as those that carried home the winning swag.

Taking top honors was a great shot by photographer John Rudolff - the crash of cyclist Joe Dengel in last summer's Portland Twilight Crit. The photo epitomizes the old adage, " luck is opportunity meeting preparedness". Many elements come together quite beautifully in this shot. In my mind, and many of the judges, what makes this image work so wonderfully is the expression on the young girl's face in the upper left corner.

Congratulations to everyone that entered and all the winners!

We will be putting up all the winning images on Bicycling Northwest.com over the coming week - as well, they will be displayed in large print format at Pro Photo Supply later in spring 2010 when we announce the opening of the next contest (I'll post a note here on the blog).

Thanks to Canon cameras for sponsorship of the prizes.

PS - Joe Dengel, is fine and cycling again - the crash did ring his bell a bit.

The Tour - One more look

For look back at the 2009 TdF check out the Devil and 39 other photos on the Boston Globe site

What's in my pocket?

Some of you sharing various rides have been emailing me about the camera I'm carrying to grab all these shots when we are flying along - the tiniest one is a Panasonic Lumix - the main one is a bit bigger, its the Canon G10, but it has great control and flexibility as well as great video. I just posted a bit on it over on my photo blog - http://smallplanet-perambulations.blogspot.com/