Atlanta Commercial and Event Photographer Blog » Sports Photography http://www.bloorphotos.com/blog Atlanta Commercial Photographer Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:42:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Roswell Criterium – Cycling in Action http://www.bloorphotos.com/blog/2010/04/roswell-criterium-cycling-in-action/ http://www.bloorphotos.com/blog/2010/04/roswell-criterium-cycling-in-action/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:26:54 +0000 cbloor http://www.bloorphotos.com/blog/?p=931 Many years ago, when I was still a young lad, I used to race for Schwinn Bicycles.  Every day, I would get up and train from 5:30 till 8am, when I had to be in school.  When school was over, I would get back on my bike and ride till dark;  do my homework and get ready to start it all over again the next day.  Most weeks, I was doing between 5 to 6 hundred miles a week.  I loved bike riding.  There was always something fantastic about the speed and the motion of it.

Well, a long time has passed since then and I am sad to say that I really don’t ride anymore.  But the passion and love of the sport I have never lost.

I heard about the Roswell Criterium (A criterium, or crit, is a bike race held on a short course (usually less than 5 km), often run on closed-off city center streets) this past weekend.  Not only did I want to see the race, but I wanted to capture the speed and motion that I used to feel as a kid in my images.  Below are some examples of the race this weekend.

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I try very hard to shoot each of my boys soccer games.  Normally, I will shoot about 1,500 images per game and end up with about 100 or so that I put together with the other games that I ultimately give to the parents at the end of the season.  I enjoy it because it is something that I don’t normally do and they enjoy the memories that makes for the kids.

As I was looking through the photos from this past weekend, I saw how many shots I had where the boys seemed to be flying off ground.

These boys might be Blue Angles in the making!!

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This is my little guy below!

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No question, this was my favorite shot of the weekend.

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