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Patrick had the idea of a group for a Riv-only commute group, so his rig has to be in there! He also took this photo.
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'03 Curt Built, Dave Altered Custom Rivendell fixed gear commuter. 69" gear with 559X1" Specialized Turbos. Low-ish bars, and I use the drops all the time for headwinds. Honjos, with World's Largest Leather Mudflap, Adam on Carradice Expedition QR mount sans hoop, Flite, Phil, Nitto, TA, MKS RX-1s, Dura Ace, Ultegra, Sun, Revolution, EOS + Spanninga + PB Superflash. The bottle is an Eleven Gear vacuum flask with sippy spout.
Shot with my Nikon P6000 in the 30s interval time lapse mode during a foggy drive in to work. P6000 attached to my Manfrotto tripod in the front passenger seat. The tripod legs are basically double jointed and can be adjusted perfectly to fit in the seat and remain very solid.
3 seconds of video @ 30 frames per second = 90 ’stills’ = one shot taken every 30 seconds over approximately 45 minutes of commute time (no carpool bonus since my wife was off today).
Every day, even Sat. and Sun. (because of club activities and sports), students diligently put on their uniforms in Japan and go to school. Often students have long commutes on trains of up to one hour. In Japan you choose the school you want to go to then have to pass entrance exams to get into it, it's not a matter of simply going to a high school in your district based on where you live like in the USA.
I shot this candid shot on a local train in the countryside of Japan early on a Sunday morning. It is such a representative scene of daily Japanese life I couldn't resist, even though I am generally apprehensive about doing candid shots of students.
The Japanese use cel phones to an extraordinary degree, but unlike American's they don't chat on them non-stop, they use them for e-mail.
I don't do candid shots too often. I really love the way this shot came out.
Sigh - the commute! A neccesary evil in so many lives, including mine.
Today made doubly worse by an accident on the M53 on the way to work and with insane amounts of roadworks on all my routes on the way home from work (Kensington and the Royal Hospital).
Of course, the radio helps, but so does having a camera on me at all times - I hasten to add - I was queuing here, handbrake on if mr policeman is watching ;)
I thought this shot summed up the mood of being in a jam, with the cone being just visible in the background and I liked the bumber to bumper headlights lighting up the exhaust fumes - the 'motion blur' effect on the right comes from curved blindspot mirrors.
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Not many people on a train on Saturday morning at 5am, except me and this guy, who was enjoying his paper. Inspired by the street scenes of Brandon Harris
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