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First off what a weekend for Irish Sport. After 2 major heart failures on Saturday. The Irish Ruby Team won the Grand Slam, the first time in 61 years and then this was followed by Bernard Dunne winning a World Title in boxing later that Saturday night. The Irish economy and the world economy is in serious trouble but we are going to kick and punch our way out of the mess.
So keeping with the sports theme, here is a photo taken along time ago. It's well over 15 year old at this stage. The photo shows a rider on the final run on a stage in the Tour de France bike race. The rider is Charly Mottet from the RMO team looking over his shoulders to see how much a lead he has. I got the photo by sticking my hand out over the barriers and got the camera back in just in time as to not hit the rider. Charly Mottet did in fact win the race an a got a winning photo. This image was entered into my very first inter-club competition and won the best photo overall. What was my prize you may ask? Well a roll of colour film.
The host of Monochrome Maniacs Aileni would be happy to know that the photo was taken using a Canon T90 film camera with Tri-X film and a standard 50mm lens and not with your 10 frames a second machine gun with 400mm lens. The good old days !
nice shoot
ReplyDeleteThat's dramatic! He looks like he's about to cycle right into you!
ReplyDeletehe's so far ahead! this is an excellent capture.
ReplyDeleteSo say we all.
ReplyDeleteAm I recreating the past ? I still have hopes of developing my film but I won't go as far as getting an enlarger. The pc can do the rest.
There was a lot of celebrating here too amonsgst the Irish teachers and Rubgy team. Goes without saying but that D.O.F. is terrific. Colour film. I imagine some viewers wondering what on earth film is.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great shot - and what a story it tells!
ReplyDeleteFantastic opportunity for this once in a lifetime shot. Excellent job.
ReplyDeleteCatch me if you can .. what a great shot!
ReplyDeleteWonderful photo and excellent advice to nt look behind. ;-)
ReplyDeleteWonderful action shot Neil! I know luck always plays a part, but the skill lies in knowing just what it's possible to get away with. Definitely a winner! Though I think it deserves more than a colour film as a prize - times change.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for your kind comment on mine - it means a lot.
Great composed and captured image.
ReplyDeletecongrats to the Irish Teams. Perfect photo or shooting without aiming through the viewfinder. I'm inspired to dig out my old film SLR and buy some film to give it a shot. The difficulty will be not being able to rely on the histogram.
ReplyDeleteWonderful dramatic picture!
ReplyDeleteGreat shot - if there was ever an example of a picture telling a thousand words, this is it.
ReplyDeleteRE: the Canon T90, it was a mighty camera in its day (it was the camera I really wanted to have while I plodded along with my Olympus OM10)
BR,
John