Cycling Photo Challenge - Entries and Chat

[Sh4rkyBloke]

I've gone one step further and commissioned an up and coming young artist to do a piece to camera which encapsulates both the cycling nature of the competition as well as the human side and also conveys the title of a book.

The video can be seen here, Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you The Flying Scotsman

 

[Cathryn]

hahah....hope you weren't injured there!!

 

[spandex]

Here is the bridge carrying the A64 over the York to Selby "Solar System" cycleway:

And yet again, I got thoroughly wet getting a picture for this challenge. It's not raining in the pictures, but it started raining very heavily half an hour later and still hasn't stopped.

This bridge is 800yd's from my house

 

[Aperitif]

Thought it was a snippet from this...

Well spotted Sh4rky!

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

hahah....hope you weren't injured there!!

Twas Magnatom, not me in the video... as I said "I commissioned an up and coming artist"

No point injuring yourself if someone else is willing to do it for you...

 

[Amanda P]

OK, it's only a self-portrait in the sense that this is my other half.

And it's got scenery, but it has to to get in the book title...

Far From the Madding Crowd. (Couldn't work out how to do Tess of the Durbervilles...)

 

[Speicher]

This one is entitled "The Lake House". I have struggled to make it a big picture, instead of a thumbnail. "The Lake House" is a book by James Patterson, and also a (entirely different, but excellent) film with Keanu Reeves.

 

[Aperitif]

Hmmm, I'm still working on how to get the wife to agree to "The Sail of Two Titties"

Do you like Dickins rich?

I said re-title

Along the right lines though - bonus points are on offer for that sort of thing...

 

[Aperitif]

From Russia With Love...

...by way of introducing tonight's winner, who is -

rich p. - for his 'rendition' of The Van. Many would have preferred something by Lorry Lee perhaps, but this rubric beat Kubrick - just, just just.

 

[tdr1nka]

Damn, I was too late with a twofold pic of 'The Old Man & The Sea' and 'The Little Mermaid'!

 

[Speicher]

Is Rich P on his holidays? Does he know we might be waiting for the next challenge?

 

[Speicher]

Rich P very kindly asked me to think up the next challenge. He won the last one but was stuck for ideas. I hope you like this one.

A photo please of your bicycle and a person or piece of equipment from another hobby or interest of yours.

So it could be a tennis player and/or tennis raquet, a game of cricket in the background etc. Or if you prefer, it could be a gentler pastime like the consumer testing of ice creams or commestibles of a similar nature.

This gives so much scope that I hope a lot of people will be able to enter a photo.

As lots of people may be on holiday this week, I am setting the deadline as next Wednesday night, the 27th. Does that give you enough time? So I can choose a winner and they might set one for the following weekend.

I may be looking for your interpretation skills as opposed to camera skills.
(or I may not - it depends).

 

[Speicher]

* bumped * so that people read it soon. Please read the previous post.

 

[TheDoctor]

oooh, I think I could have a go at that!

 

[Arch]

yeah, I reckon I could manage that too!

Must remember to carry my camera about over the weekend. Pity, last weekend I could have got a shot of it with my garden fork bungied to the rack. I suppose I could recreate it, but the allotment is a bit of a lapsed interest now...