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Yesterday, I photographed a track bike race at an outdoor race track made of wood.
Some female athletes of the local bike scene in Stuttgart, met up to practice riding fixies at this race track. For most of them, it was the first time to ever cycle on a track or to even cycle on a fixie. Next time, I would love to try that myself.
The track itself was very old, not illuminated, outdoors, but still covered by a roof. As it was pouring all day long, the old roof yielded and started to leak from time to time. None of that was a big problem though. The biggest photographic challenge was it though, to properly focus at bikes moving at a speed of 30km/h to 50km/h, as there was not much light coming in. No sun, no light. Hence, I installed my one strobe I had to add some dramatic lighting to the otherwise boring light. It also helped to freeze the motion a bit better. Every time the athletes took a turn in that one curve, they were strobed like in a speed control. Of course, I paid attention to not strobe them right into their faces.
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Frame:*FAIRWEATHER* TRACK BLUE LUG CUSTOM PAINT by COOK PAINT WORKS
STEM:*NITTO* technomic stem
Handle:*FAIRWEATHER* mod174 all road bar
Head set:*CHRIS KING*
Wheels:*GRANCOMPE* small track hub× *H PLUS SON* the box
Tire:*PANARACER*pasela
Brakes:*CAMPAGNOLO* veloce
Brake lever:*TRP* RRL alloy road brake levers
Crankset:*FSA* gimondi track crankset
SADDLE:*BROOKS* swallow chrome
Bar tape:*BROOKS* microfiber bartape
Western State's Alisha Williams, right, gets a hug from teammate Leora Jordan after the pair finished the womens' 1,500m run during the 2005 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Elmer Gray Stadium on the campus of Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. Williams won the event with a time of 4:28.53 while Jordan finished sixth in the race with a time of 4:32.05.
Checking the clutch slave cylinder and front sprocket prior to my first ever track day courtesy of MotoCorsa and Portland International Raceway.
The railway into Lagos in Portugal. There is only a single line so the trains are infrequent. This was taken on one of the many crossings that lead to Meia Praia beach ...
Reconstruction of a fossil sea scorpion making Palmichnium tracks. (public signage, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
The eurypterids, or sea scorpions, are an extinct group of chelicerate arthropods. They have an elongated, scorpion-like body that could reach enormous sizes (2.5 to 3 meters!), with a nonmineralizing exoskeleton composed of chitinous material. They are generally found in shallow to very shallow water marine and marginal marine facies.
Classification: Animalia, Arthropoda, Chelicerata, Merostomata, Xiphosura, Eurypterida, Eurypteridae
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See info. at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurypterid
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26 MAY 2012: JSean Bernstein of Oneonta State cross the finish line of the 200 meter race during the Division III Men?s and Women?s Outdoor Track and Field Championship held at Burns Stadium in Claremont, CO. Bernstein ran a 20.80 for the national title. Matt Brown/NCAA Photos
Day 332 (v 2.0) - haaayyyalp! regretfully you cannot see that i am actually tied up to this small, but heavy, piece of railroad track which made setting and resetting the camera difficult. bruises to follow.
There is something sad about the sight of rails that lead nowhere . Near Ilkeston the Stanton New Works was well and truly dead and gone on the 1984 sunday when the picture was taken.
Hitherto - and through many decades - its workers had assumed that their workplace would continue forever !
On a tour thru the John Deere/Hitachi plant where my nephew works. My wife and great-neice beside one track for the excavator. Te plant is located in Kernersville, NC.