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August 22nd, 2010 — cycling photos
But, you missed photographing the cyclist.
Nice basket
Harrier Bicycle – A real British classic. At least I think it is a British classic, I couldn’t even find any info on t’intenet it is that old. There is a Harrier motorcycle company. Many bicycle manufacturers later developed into bicycle manufacturers.
The Bridge of Sighs and an Arden Bicycle.
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August 17th, 2010 — cycle lanes, cycling photos
A narrow residential road in Oxford with traffic calming measures, gets narrower further up.
Wide enough for three cars (two parked) in theory slows cars down. Can be a tight squeeze at times.
A much nicer place to cycle – along the Thames cycle path.
An overhead shot
Bike by South Parks and St Clements
August 14th, 2010 — cycling, cycling photos
Nice fixed bike.
BTW: Prize for first person to Spot the cyclist in this picture photo
Cycling into town
Many stony eyed spectators look on.
The Pleasures and sorrows of Cycling.
Cycling along.
August 6th, 2010 — cycling photos
Cycling up hill by South Parks. Leaves dropping early because of dry summer.
Evening over Magdalen Bridge.
Good solid socks to keep trousers oil free.
That tricky business of getting in right hand lane.
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August 4th, 2010 — cycling photos
Continuing the No Cycling theme. Sorry mate, you can’t park it here. That will be £60 please.
Lots of double yellow lines under the Bridge of Sighs.
Now that’s even better than my mum’s old Mini Cooper
What a way to get to school.
BTW: I wonder why people don’t like traffic wardens. I think they do a great job.
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July 26th, 2010 — cycling photos
No cycling into the sunset. Photo by Front Row – Brighton, UK
No cycling, I think. Photo by Front Row – Brighton, UK
Photo by GP Twisted
No Cycling, even those with poor eyesight, we have made sign nice and big. Photo by Just A Hero
Photo by Pond Spider
– no cycling up these steps – and please don’t play bar billiards around here either.
The Man from Del Monte – he say Go On!
Photo by Katherine Kenny
No cycling when temperature dips below -2 degrees. And welcome to Brighton.
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July 22nd, 2010 — cycling photos
Nice hat.
Stagecoach Buses running on electric hybrid power now. Still don’t like so many buses.
Why isn’t my bike going faster?
The Tour de Oxford
A serious commuting machine
Mum’s Taxi
Breakfast on the move. You can’t beat the banana. Except on the high street you can’t fling empty skin into a field to bio-degrade.
July 2nd, 2010 — cycling photos
A disappointing thing about returning to Leeds, is the lack of cyclists. Living in Oxford you get used to seeing hundreds of cyclists. But, for cities in the UK, Oxford is probably one of the exceptions rather than the rule. I’m sure there are many reasons behind this.
It was good to see they have tried with these cycle lanes, I just wish I had been able to take a photo of a cyclist using them (I was only there for a couple of minutes.)
On other roads, I noted there were no cycle paths painted on the road. I’m never entirely convinced of the benefit of painting cycle lanes on roads. But, as a cyclist I tend to like them, as it acts as a reminder to motorists that there can be cyclists on the road too. I’ve got to say some of the roads with 3 or 4 lanes in centre of town hardly looked appealing to cyclists.
Each to their own.
Big and Tasty
There are obviously some determined cyclists in Leeds, there are quite a lot of parked bikes around the station and in other locations.
O well, at least Leeds isn’t far from the Yorkshire Dales
Cycling maps from Leeds council
June 30th, 2010 — cycling photos
Off to work
A struggle this.
A bike for a few kids or a few teddies
The future is bright, the future is orange
with Tesco bags
June 25th, 2010 — cycling photos
The first thing with taking photos of cyclists. It’s much easier to take photos than it is to edit, upload and put into blog post.
Usually, I make use of Flickr uploader. But, if you want better photos, I find it quicker to do a bit of photoshop than to change all settings on camera. But, it does become time consuming.
The real difference to taking good cycling photos is to get a camera with reasonable shutter speed. On compact cameras it is just hard to get this. I do have a Panasonic compact I used for a while, but it just doesn’t have a quick enough shutter speed.
With ordinary shooting mode (above), the cyclist moving at around 5mph is a bit blurred. The other photos are taken in ‘sports’ mode. With the Canon 500D this takes advantage of its fast shutter speed.
The cross roads. Different people, different directions.
This bike could do with a basket.
Back packs vs Messenger bags.
