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Finally, photos!

On a truly dreary day with the threat of freezing rain, I couldn't think of anything better to do than scan in my photos from the 2006 BubbaFest ride in the Florida Keys.

OK, I should have done this about a year ago. I could make excuses and say I didn't have time because of my real job at the Belleville News-Democrat, writing articles for this blog, working on the Tour de Stooges and other group rides in the St. Louis metropolitan area and -- heaven forbid -- riding my bike.

But the reality is that I wasted too much time surfing the Internet when I could have been scanning photos. I still shoot pictures with old-fashioned film, so I do have to allot some time for negative scanning.

I learned my lesson from my procrastination. Now, I get digital versions of my photos so I can more quickly get them on this Web site. That's why my photos from the 2007 West Shoreline Tour made it to the site before the BubbaFest photos did.

Someday, I'll buy a digital camera. Yes, I am aware the quality of digital cameras have increased while the prices have decreased.

But for now, I'm still happy with film.

If you're as tired of the cold, icy weather that has hit much of the country as I am, take a look at the BubbaFest photos and think warm thoughts!

Labels: cycling, photography, tours

Roger 0 comments 11:31 PM

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Productive visit to ARTEAST

On Sunday, I paid my annual visit to the Edwardsville portion of the ARTEAST Edwardsville-Alton Studio Tour. While walking through one of the exhibits, I happened to come across some cycling photographs.

The photographer happened to be sitting in the hallway. He was pretty easy to pick out: He was wearing a LiveStrong cap and bracelet.

I struck up a conversation with the photographer, David Sill. He's a professor of theater at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. "I've been a cyclist since I was a little kid and started shooting races when I heard about the Tour de Georgia and that Lance was going to be there. I've been shooting races ever since," David said.

At ARTEAST, he showed a batch of photographs he took at the Tour of Missouri and Tour of Georgia.

David decided to share with me a couple of photographs that he didn't show at ARTEAST, and now I share them with you. The first photograph is of Discovery Channel rider Yaroslav Popovych, and the second is an artistic blurred shot:

Labels: photography, Tour of Missouri

Roger 0 comments 2:10 PM