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Things that just don’t fit in the other categories
Up for everyone to see are photographs of the September 19, 2009 edition of Assault on Morrow Mountain. It was the final AoMM of the year. Special thanks go to Jeff Viscount, ride organizer, Bicycles East and Middle Ring Cycles for assisting with rider mechanical issues, and all the rest of the volunteers.
I will be going on my first bike ride since April, today!
I probably won’t make it out of the neighborhood but at least I am on the bike. After my morning visit with the surgeon, I asked if I can go back to completely normal activities and he said he didn’t see any issues. I got to see the x-rays of all the hardware now inside of my neck. The palsy in my left arm is nearly gone. I just need to do some weights to rebuild the strength. So I decided I am going to blow the dust off the single-speed and take a short trip to see how it feels.
Today I was supposed to go in for additional surgery. The idea was to close up the hole in the back of my neck with what amounted to a vacuum cleaner. As much as I love gadgets and technology I became more and more reluctant to undergo anesthesia again. As much as I enjoy hospital food I really didn’t want two more days of eating it. Even though I live for the care of nurses and their wholly unflattering scrubs I just didn’t really want to go back in the hospital just yet.
I just want to thank everyone for the nice comments. We are by no means professional photographers and each trip out is a learning experience for us. We tried some new things. Nicole used a brand new camera and took, what I think were some of the best pictures on the day. Richard used a new camera and he experimented all day with exposure settings. I was trying out some daylight flash pictures, like the guys you see taking tour pictures, to bring some light to the shadows on the riders faces.
For those of us that spend inordinate amounts of time in front of a computer screen. I like others occasionally find myself doing a bit of surfing on the world wide web for cycling information, well if you are in the Carolina’s sometimes that info is not as easy to find. This is where David Queen comes in. David runs a site named CyCleCarolina.com where he links to lots of cycling information on the web. He has pictures of various area cycling events dating back to 2006. For those more adventurous he also has compiled a list of links to quite a number of Cue Sheets (his site lists them incorrectly as Que Sheets).
News that is. So I went to the surgeon for one more check-up and to ask why the drain hole is not sealing up. To also ask if I will make my September 1st season start date. Well the good news is that I am healthy!
In the first post in this series we discussed some tips about taking documentary images of bicycles. While that is a very good place to start, there is so much more to bicycles than just a sum of it’s components. Bicycles are one of the most efficient and elegant machines mankind has ever created. So why not show off just how beautiful bicycles really are. (Please note that most of the images in this article are not mine and I did attempt to get permission to use them, as a result some of the images may change over time.) We are not professional photographers but dabble in both photography and cycling. Do not take this article as the gospel on artistic bicycle photography but rather a starting point to spur your imagination.
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