. . . then there might be something wrong with you.
2012 U.S. National Cyclocross Championships (Elite Women) from In The Crosshairs on Vimeo.
IF THIS DOESN’T MAKE YOU WANT TO RACE CX . . .
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FLORENT SOULAS
wow. this is one of the best edits I have ever seen.
Florent Soulas – Foundation 2012 from adrien delaforcade on Vimeo.
SCANOGRAMS!
Got to take some “scanographs” with the scanner in my photography class recently. Pretty neat to think of the device as a camera, I’d always associated it more with a photocopier up until then.
Here’s my favorite (and the only one that I emailed to myself), I shall call it “The Birth of the Sun”
“TELL ME A STORY”
Tell me a story.
In this century, and moment, of mania,
Tell me a story.
Make it a story of great distances, and starlight.
The name of the story shall be Time,
But you must not pronounce its name.
Tell me a story of deep delight.
—Robert Penn Warren
TEST SHOTS WITH NEW FILTERS AND EVF
I decided to pull the trigger on a electronic viewfinder (EVF) and set of lens filters for my Panasonic LX-5 camera and am incredibly pleased with the results! Two small upgrades (the viewfinder and the ability to mount filters) give the camera a whole new personality!
I began to learn about photography with an entry-level Canon DSLR and really enjoy the feeling of bringing the camera up to the eye to frame and shoot; the LX-5 came only with an LCD screen, but with an accessory hot-shoe that allows the installation of an aftermarket EVF. The EVF displays the camera settings and gives a preview of what the exposure will look like.
I wound up buying all the filters that Panasonic offers: an ND filter, which lowers the intensity of light; a polarizing filter, or circular polarizer, which filters the light in such a way that the reflection off of bodies of water is reduced and the sky is darkened instead of blown-out; and a basic UV filter which protects the lens from . . . UV rays, but more so dust and dirt and what not.
The polarizing filter should prove fun for landscape and/or water shots and the ND filter helps to create a nice blur effect in the daytime. The UV filter is really just a protector. Interestingly, the adaptor-mount also acts as a lens hood, which will supposedly help to reduce lens flare—in reality, though, it just helps to fingers and what not out of the view of the lens.
Here are a few test shots. Unfortunately I wasn’t in a setting that provided for a nice panoramic view to test the polarizer on, so I guess I’ll just have to ride my touring bike up into the watershed again to really try things out!
Enjoy.
RECENT PHOTOS FROM A ROAD RIDE ON DIRT
A few recent photographs from a ride in the woods on big wheels and small tires!
MARK WEBB – THE WEBBIE SHOW
Woah, mind blown.
NEWS FLASH
In an effort to increase the efficiency of my use of this space, I have decided to post the majority of my poetry-isms over on my tumblr page. That isn’t to say, however, that the occasional bike (and/or life) related poem won’t make its way onto L(C) . . .
End broadcast.
HA HA HA
So, as I was taking this photo . . .
. . . a gentleman stopped and asked me what I was doing.
“Taking a picture of the bike rack!”
“Oh . . . and where are you from?”
“Here!”
“Oh, have you not seen one of these before?”
“No, I have, I just wanted to take a picture for my blog, because so many other cities already have these and it’s great that Ashland joined the club!”
“I see, and where are you from?”
“Umm . . . here.”
“Born and raised?!?”
“Well, born in Oregon, raised here, yeah.”
“Soo . . . you’re just taking a picture to share with your friends in other cities?”
“Sort of: Seattle recently got one of these and I think it’s great that Ashland has one, too.”
“Well, Seattle has always been pretty progressive when it comes to bicycles and liberal, progressive thinking. They were, after all, the first city to have bicycle-mounted police!”
I refrained from commenting on the current state of the Seattle Police Department.
“Uh huh . . . yeah, Portland is pretty big on bikes, too.”
“Yeah, they were actually the second city to get bicycle-mounted police.”
“Oh.”
The feller then continued on about how the west coast has always been a place of progressive minded people and was, in fact, the last place in the genocide of liberal thinking in the 1980′s.
Or something.
I had sort of quit following the feller at that point and was more interested in choosing a filter for my photo on Instagram (I went with X-Pro eventually).
After a few more minutes of liberal, progressive-genocide type talk, the gentleman handed me his business card and told me to stop in “anytime” for a soul reading.
To this he added that he and his wife were the “cellphone line to God” and that I was welcome whenever to talk. Even just to talk about how I could succeed in getting more of these bike rack installations in other cities.
As the feller walked away, I was struck by the idea that I could call up God via this guy—or his wife (wonder which gets better reception . . .) and ask about installing a Bike Fixtation in other cities. Why don’t more US cities have such easy access to God? There could be an almost infinite number of the handy Fixtations by now . . .
CHURCH OF PEDRO
This is so beautiful.