Hooray! Dad is in London for the week.
We snagged some dinner and a few pints last night with work people.
I expect that there will be many, many more pints in the near future as well.
20 September 2007
09 September 2007
Seriously, Stop Posting about Biking... Nobody Cares
Yes, I have become a little monotonous in my post topics. So I'll try to cut back on the cycling specific content in the future. But this one couldn't be helped.
The Tour of Britain started today with a short 2.5 km prologue around Crystal Palace Park, just south of London. I hopped on a train and managed to catch some of the amateur racing before the pro teams got on the course.
The amateur race was the London Grand Prix competition to win the Bob Chicken Trophy (I'm seriously not making that up). It was an hour long criterium race for the very fast, but non-pro riders.
The main event started at 3pm and consisted of a single lap of the course for each rider. They were sent off on one minute increments, and all finished somewhere under 3 minutes (aka, really fast). The winner was Mark Cavendish, a British native, and also the first British rider to claim the yellow jersey.
And now... for the pictures.
I took 553 pictures. Yes, that sounds like a whole crap load of pictures, and it is. But when you have a sport mode that can take 3 pictures per second, it's pretty easy to rack up quite a few shots.
Here are (nearly) all of the pictures. FYI, Picasa limits the size of an album to 500, so I had to trim back a few... I'm sure you won't mind.
If you don't feel like wasting lots and lots of time going through those, I've picked out some of my favorites.
I did have a lot of fun playing around with some new picture taking techniques. I tried a few dozen times to get that focused-rider-blurry-background shot, and managed to get a few good ones (one, two, three, four). It's tough to nail that shot though, they're going way too fast.
Also, I think that with 500+ pictures of cyclists, probably the best picture was of a lady bug. Oh well.
The Tour of Britain started today with a short 2.5 km prologue around Crystal Palace Park, just south of London. I hopped on a train and managed to catch some of the amateur racing before the pro teams got on the course.
The amateur race was the London Grand Prix competition to win the Bob Chicken Trophy (I'm seriously not making that up). It was an hour long criterium race for the very fast, but non-pro riders.
The main event started at 3pm and consisted of a single lap of the course for each rider. They were sent off on one minute increments, and all finished somewhere under 3 minutes (aka, really fast). The winner was Mark Cavendish, a British native, and also the first British rider to claim the yellow jersey.
And now... for the pictures.
I took 553 pictures. Yes, that sounds like a whole crap load of pictures, and it is. But when you have a sport mode that can take 3 pictures per second, it's pretty easy to rack up quite a few shots.
Here are (nearly) all of the pictures. FYI, Picasa limits the size of an album to 500, so I had to trim back a few... I'm sure you won't mind.
If you don't feel like wasting lots and lots of time going through those, I've picked out some of my favorites.
I did have a lot of fun playing around with some new picture taking techniques. I tried a few dozen times to get that focused-rider-blurry-background shot, and managed to get a few good ones (one, two, three, four). It's tough to nail that shot though, they're going way too fast.
Also, I think that with 500+ pictures of cyclists, probably the best picture was of a lady bug. Oh well.
04 September 2007
Pictures!
After plenty of procrastination, I've put up pictures from Pevensey Castle on Picasa.
http://picasaweb.google.com/harwig/PevenseyCastle
http://picasaweb.google.com/harwig/PevenseyCastle
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