Friday Night Ride To A Calendar

[Tim Hall]

Any good?

 

[mmmmartin]

Any good?

super, ideal for a whole page in a month i have vacant. can you email me a high res version please tim? also names if you know them, time, place, etc for the caption. also shall i put the credit as "Photograph: Tim Hall" ??

 

[Tim Hall]

I'll email the full fat version later this evening.

No idea who they are, but that's not a bad thing, as it shows the rides are open to anyone.

One bloke had a full carbon bike, with disc wheels, which he dropped, noisily. It was on the way to Whitstable, June 2011.

Yes, credit Tim Hall

ps, that's me zooming through the Kent Lanes with TC. And they're Sussex Lanes (en route to Newhaven). And the pic is by Swarm_catcher.

 

[mmmmartin]

http://bit.ly/nXGoQM

we're getting there.

thanks Tim, corrections made.

I still don't like the november pic, which although it shows the ghastliness of rain and damp dawns, isn't really the business.
We still need a couple of big pix and a portrait, which obviously can be smaller.
I think we have reached the limit on pix of His Leggness, Susie, Frank, theclaud, Adrian and Titus, but would like
a User10571 pic
as he is very much part of the whole hypnocracy thingy.

 

[theclaud]

http://bit.ly/nXGoQM

we're getting there.

thanks Tim, corrections made.

I still don't like the november pic, which although it shows the ghastliness of rain and damp dawns, isn't really the business.
We still need a couple of big pix and a portrait, which obviously can be smaller.
I think we have reached the limit on pix of His Leggness, Susie, Frank, theclaud, Adrian and Titus, but would like
a User10571 pic
as he is very much part of the whole hypnocracy thingy.

From the Martlets 2010 ride.

 

[theclaud]

He's in this one as well...



I have passable snaps of lots of FNRttC regulars, and MacB... Again, not much to shout about photographically, but capturing some indispensible peeps (although I appreciate it's a bit hit and miss as to who is and isn't included. In addition to pics already put forward, I have:

AndyA
RichP
3BM
Andrij
Topcat1
Thom F
GregC
Jasper
McWobble
Lee
TimH
CliveP

My pics of the following are unfortunately poor-quality, but maybe someone else has better ones:
Adam
Origamist
TimD
TimO
Slowmo
MartinT
MickF
Clive B
MarilynB
DanB
StuAff
John RedflightUK

And of course, this lovely metrosexual couple!

 

[dellzeqq]

somewhere or other there's a picture of Topcat and Susie and one other on the way to Whitstable - it's a wide landscape picture taken at a road junction. It's a cracker, but my copy disappeared when my hard drive when bang this August. Any ideas?

 

[dellzeqq]

There is a fairly famous photo of User10571 en route to Whitstable. You can find it on Google Streetview. It is a FNRTTC recce ride which must at least half count.

wasn't there a chap behind him shielding his face from the camera??????????????????????????????????????????????

 

[Nigel182]

Only been a FNRttC'ing since this year found these.....
The Elephant was on the Way to Hastings

the other 2 are from the Trip to Artic Southend

I also rember someones Pic of The Shard and the comment was it looked like the set of a Transformers Film.

 

[Flying Dodo]

I need a couple of big pix and two that would make nice portraits. Any of people riding in a group would be nice: those I currently have are slightly out of focus and blowing them to A4 size exaggerates that to an uncomfortable degree.

I only seem to get small groups unfortunately:-

 

[mmmmartin]

This is all very splendid and many thanks for these suggestions. It seems to me that a pattern is emerging. The photographs seem to divide into three or four themes: in the dark, many at HPC and some at the stops: in the light, largely but not always at the regroupings: and in the cafe with breakfasts and beer. These are usually OK for the big single picture for a month. Then there are smaller pix that lend themselves to portraits and these seem to work very well with three on a page. Rarer are the simply stunning pix and one example is Swarm_catcher's witch tree, another is the TEC's at work in the dark, and the Rochester at night pic. Perhaps next year (?) there may be more pix taken, and suggested for the calendar, if this one goes down OK.One thing I hadn't thought of is that in poor light the aperture on these digital cameras opens right up and the moving cyclists are often slightly out of focus and this is obvious when the pic is blown up to A4, but not to the person who sends it to me and has never seen it large-scale. The chap next to me at work can fix a few things and ome example is Simon and Susie storming up Ditchlimg Beacon, which was on the unacceptable side of fuzzy but now seems to ne on the acceptable side of fuzzy.A pig-headed refusal to stare facts in the face will always see you through and I still cling - perhaps overoptimistically - to the idea of getting i done and buying one copy from Truprint and bringing it on the Whitstable run so peeps can hand it round and make derogatory comments. But my original hope that I would be spoilt for choice early in the process has not happened.

 

[mmmmartin]

Flying DodoI really like the bottom one can you email me a high res version pleaseI have one or two with small groups riding away from the cameraso the top one is in that class. The bottom one looks somewhere fsmoud and interesting and looks like a good poc despite the obviois flaw, which is that is has Simon in it. Obviously he is A God Of The Cycling World and an inspiration ot us all and has brought unalloyed joy to many lives but there are only 12 months in one year and he is in three of them, which a curmudgeon might think is almost enough.

 

[martint235]

We are including the pink shirt?

Oh I really think we have to, don't you?

 

[Flying Dodo]

Flying DodoI really like the bottom one can you email me a high res version pleaseI have one or two with small groups riding away from the cameraso the top one is in that class. The bottom one looks somewhere fsmoud and interesting and looks like a good poc despite the obviois flaw, which is that is has Simon in it. Obviously he is A God Of The Cycling World and an inspiration ot us all and has brought unalloyed joy to many lives but there are only 12 months in one year and he is in three of them, which a curmudgeon might think is almost enough.

Well, you could always airbrush out the obvious knee bandage, and then no-one would know!

That one's in Swansea on the 20.05.2011 Cardiff to Swansea ride.

Can you PM your email address.

 

[Tim Hall]

User10571 reflecting on his breakfast.

Portnalls Lane, possibly not sharp enough.

Riding through Sussex, en route to Bognor, June 2010

Jasper's bike.