Cycling Photo Challenge - Entries and Chat

[coffeejo]

I went for a short ride along a section of the Taunton-Bridgwater Canal (NCN 3) this afternoon. The light was soft and gentle and it made for a peaceful break in a very much non-peaceful day.

There are a lot of memorial benches along the length of the canal path and I spotted this fresh tribute on one:

Rather than simply turn the bike around and come home, I did a bit of a loop by leaving the path in one of the villages and doing a bit on the road before rejoining the canal path in the opposite direction. This was the view of the canal and the path, taken from the bridge above it:

 

[potsy]

Very nice

 

[Cyclist33]

I think the challenge might be a wee bit more relaxed now summerdays is in charge

Just got to somehow do a ride in daylight to get some pics

Oi, Cakeface, who said it wasn't relaxed when I set it?! You got two weeks and I was slack on the deadline. And hardly any bugger bothered anyway.

 

[Cyclist33]

That picture of the roses is beautiful.

 

[summerdays]

Oi, Cakeface, who said it wasn't relaxed when I set it?! You got two weeks and I was slack on the deadline. And hardly any bugger bothered anyway.

Doesn't matter how many - it's quality that counts (well and you have to accept the odd photo from Potsy along the way too).

 

[summerdays]

That picture of the roses is beautiful.

I like the way it has captured a bit of the bench and the view beyond ... the only thing I wanted to know @coffeejo was that the way the bench faced or the view over the back of the bench?

 

[Cyclist33]

I wasn't going to say that the general quality was ahem, ahah, too

(my own entry included)

 

[potsy]

Oi, Cakeface, who said it wasn't relaxed when I set it?! You got two weeks and I was slack on the deadline. And hardly any bugger bothered anyway.

We usually get 2 months in, then someone remembers there was a point to this thread and puts a picture up

 

[BlueDog]

@Bluedog - was that today ... it certainly brightened up this afternoon, I took some today as well in the lovely light - though on a different path. Mad doing it on a unicycle though!

@r80 - err interesting method of keeping your speed down!!!

Erm, it wasn't quite today, it was a few days ago, a bit earlier in the week.... well Sunday to be honest. And I've just realised the subject was chosen on Monday - Doh!

Maybe I should change my name to 'the soothsayer' Or maybe I'm just too honest for my own good.......

 

[summerdays]

But is quality the true aim? ... surely the aim is the challenge and fun - not that you have to be David Bailey to enter in the first place (there are photography websites for that!!).

 

[coffeejo]

I like the way it has captured a bit of the bench and the view beyond ... the only thing I wanted to know @coffeejo was that the way the bench faced or the view over the back of the bench?

It was the view from the back of the bench, which faces the canal and the fields rising gently above it. I'd love to say it was an artistic decision in order to capture the autumnal colours of the hedge but the reality is that the sun was directly behind the bench and I thought that the bouquet (and the love it obviously represents) deserves more attention than becoming a silhouette.

 

[potsy]

It was the view from the back of the bench, which faces the canal and the fields rising gently above it. I'd love to say it was an artistic decision in order to capture the autumnal colours of the hedge but the reality is that the sun was directly behind the bench and I thought that the bouquet (and the love it obviously represents) deserves more attention than becoming a silhouette.

Looks like a lucky shot to me

 

[summerdays]

Erm, it wasn't quite today, it was a few days ago, a bit earlier in the week.... well Sunday to be honest. And I've just realised the subject was chosen on Monday - Doh!

Sorry I shouldn't have asked - it was more a comment about how today had ended very nicely.

 

[Cyclist33]

We usually get 2 months in, then someone remembers there was a point to this thread and puts a picture up

I blame the previous arbiter, 'twas he set the fortnight's candle.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Another one from me. I liked the way that the sunset gave everything a golden glow:

Edit: I could have sworn I posted this last night but there was no trace this morning.