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Saturday we had a road race in the town I grew-up in (actually just outside of town)...and it was only 20 minutes from where I live now. Weather starting out was sunny and a georgous day......calling for chances of shower possible. Well for about 20 minutes during the race we had a downpour...it was GREAT! I've been waiting all year for a foul weather race, shame it was short lived.
I was shooting with the Nikon D700, 300 f/2.8 and sometimes used the 1.4x converter.

I'm just going to post some of the foul weather images here for C&C, but I do have another thread posted today asking about a single image I took that seem to have an excessive amount of POP!?

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/783417/0#lastmessage

Slide show running on my home page with around 50 of my favorite images from the race www.MLKimages.com

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Jun 15, 2009 at 12:39 PM

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Hi Michael,

Sweet images! I feel like you don't see photos in these weather conditions very often, especially at a cycling race. They are absoltuely wonderful..

Also - were you able to shoot the TD Bank Race in Philly two weekends ago??

Chiara

Jun 15, 2009 at 01:35 PM

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Chiara,
I agree....I've been waiting all year to shoot a foul weather race - I think it adds such an impact to an event. I was so excited when it started to rain.....but it only lasted 20 mins of hard rain and then another 10 of light rain and then it was over

I skipped the Phila race this year. All of the big time Photogs are there and most of the mags are obligated to use there photos so I'll never get any media sales out of it. Decided to skip it this year.

Michael

C Best wrote:
Hi Michael,

Sweet images! I feel like you don't see photos in these weather conditions very often, especially at a cycling race. They are absoltuely wonderful..

Also - were you able to shoot the TD Bank Race in Philly two weekends ago??

Chiara

Jun 15, 2009 at 01:53 PM

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p.1 #4 · Cycling from this weekend....a bit of rain

Really super images Michael. Certainly not what most of use see. They are all awesome but #4 is my favorite, love the angle and everything else in it. Thanks for sharing.

Jun 15, 2009 at 01:56 PM

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p.1 #5 · Cycling from this weekend....a bit of rain

I LOVE these! If you want to shoot foul weather, this year you should've come up to Canada - almost all of our races have had some ugly stuff going on. (One of them I had to wear winter riding gear!)

Jun 23, 2009 at 03:22 AM

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p.1 #6 · Cycling from this weekend....a bit of rain

Very sweet stuff here Michael. Most guys pack it in when the rain starts. But you captured the conditions here perfectly.

~Ted

Jun 23, 2009 at 03:27 AM

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#4 is exceptional. Lots of drama in the climb.

Jun 23, 2009 at 10:59 PM

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p.1 #8 · Cycling from this weekend....a bit of rain

i LOVE #4 ... awesome energy from the rider and that 'background eraser' you're shooting with sure is tasty.

Jun 25, 2009 at 02:59 PM

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