Cycling Photo Challenge - Entries and Chat

[Amanda P]

Entry herewith:

This illustrates the full horror of what happens to a commuting bike used every day in the depths of a salty winter.

A little macrophotography this lunchtime. Or is that photomacrography...? Phytochromatoxicity....? Togomactophactology....

 

[longers]

Does a bit of rust on spokes and the dead bits of last years Clematis growth count for this challenge?

 

[summerdays]

OK I spotted a bike being ridden at school today ... complete death trap... he had zero working brakes... I did manage to get his front brake working for him ... but didn't do anything with the back brake... and I could of done with having some lube on me.... so this bike was ridden to school this morning...

and a close up of the chain/back brake (well location of):

What parent lets their kid ride to school on a bike with no brakes.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Taken on Whitby beach.... clearly this bike had seen some ocean action in its recent life!!

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Love the colour of that chain, Summerdays!!! I'd make a concerted effort to try and contact that kid's parents to let them know what a deathtrap the bike is!

 

[summerdays]

Oh I like that one ... especially with the pebbles and stones as a background.

 

[Arch]

Well, I think the deadline whooshed by a while ago, so I must choose...

Sh4rkyBloke gets it. I love the juxtaposition of man made and natural, and I'm a sucker for the seaside.

I liked the others too, it was hard to choose. Honorary mentions for all.

Sh4rky, over to you for a subject.

 

[summerdays]

Well Sh4rkyBloke... I'm getting desperate for my next fix of supposed to be looking for a photo... (and then not having the camera on me when I see it!!!). What's it to be?

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Oh cripes... never dreamed I'd win!

I'd like to thnk my Wife and children for all their support throughout my Photography career, my Parents for their knowledge and wisdom, and Jessops for the camera.... blah blah blah.

Right then... a theme..... a theme, my kingdom for a theme....

I'm going to trawl back through this thread for some inspiration and get back to you soonish...

TTFN.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Struggling... and noticed that there are 120 pages already in this thread so didn't go back through them all.

However, I did stumble on a page where Arch said she had taken some photos, but then on reflection didn't think they were good enough to be entered (or something similar)... so, using that as inspiration (and apologies if this theme has already been done previously!)...

"Reflections involving bikes" is the theme.

Interpret it how you like, and closing date is 2 weeks from today (but I'll probably need a reminder to come back and judge!).

Happy snapping!

 

[summerdays]

It has been done before (long time ago) but no reason not to return to it... but should we say we can't resubmit the same photos...?

Oh... I've thought of a place to get reflections....

 

[rich p]

It has been done before (long time ago) but no reason not to return to it... but should we say we can't resubmit the same photos...?

Oh... I've thought of a place to get reflections....

They have to be new photos summerdays!

 

[summerdays]

Mine normally are ... that's what I like about the comp... you then have to spend the next two weeks (months when we forget) looking around for something different when you are on your bike.

Like I say I've thought of somewhere to get reflections... don't know if it will work though - this place didn't even exist last year so it will definitely be new.

 

[Speicher]

Sometimes people have excellent photos of the right topic. If they say they are old photos, therefore not perhaps eligible for the comp, I would still like to see them. People could post old photos, but the judging is amongst the new ones. This is my suggestion, but feel free to ignore it.

 

[Amanda P]

That sounds eminently reasonable to me, Speicher.

It does make judging a little more complicated, but no-one said it had to be easy...

 

[summerdays]

Sounds fine to me... I like seeing photos.