12.11.2007
Cycling Portfolio - Cyclocross

I wandered around the Gran Prix event for Pacific Northwest cyclocross a week ago - the final event in the Cross Crusade series. I'd been trying to get to one of these for months, and the Sunday series proved really hard to line up with my schedule. Thankfully this was a 2 day event, and I was able to head out on Saturday. It snowed lightly, and was cold (for Portland) but no rain to speak of. Luckily the previous days had been crappy, and the ground was nice and wet for the riders - lots of great mud opps. I'm working on a cyclocross portfolio shoot - to add more sports motion work to the book. I got some great reference shots, and I think that a few of the shots will end up in the online sports book.


I had breakfast with a friend/colleague/photographer this morning - Jamey Stillings. I worked freelance for Jamey in ancient times, back in Rochester. It was great to catch up with someone who has taken his career up to that next level and is still the same down-to-earth nice guy I remember. He asked me (much paraphrased) "why do you blog? what's the deal?" It was actually Therese who had the answer - she said something like "It's Andy's chance to have a voice on the site. It's a section where he gets to do what he wants, and say what he wants". She nailed it. It's hard to know what the outward impact is of doing this, but I do this for myself, with the added bonus of letting everyone else in on some good stuff.

all right then - enough rambling -

andy

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11.20.2007
Cycling Portfolio

This image is from a recent portfolio shoot - I got to ride about 12" off the road, at about 20mph, strapped into a safety harness along a winding back road.

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