A Ride through 2 Lenses
19 Feb
The Fat Tire Ballerinas decided to celebrate warm weather and packed trails with a beautiful Sunday afternoon snow bike ride. My bike-wife and I both brought cameras to capture the fun. After our ride was over, we exchanged memory cards and came up with a fun blog game. Your five favorite pictures, taken by either camera, posted with a brief explanation.
This game proved to be harder than I thought. It was a little bit like picking Cabinet Ministers. Aesthetic preference was not the only consideration. Trying to pick 5 photos that showed off different riders, different parts of trail and different perspectives was really tough. But in the end I made my choices and I’m keen to see how many of them are also in my bike-wife’s collection.
Here is my ride in 5 pics:
There were four furry companions on today’s ride and no picture collection would be complete without at least one doggie-centric portrait. I love this photo because it features the star of the afternoon (literally) a bright sun that feels like it’s pulling us towards summer, and a doggy smile so wide that it’s infectious.
The nice thing about a community of female snow bikers, is that there’s always bikes to lend. Paula is riding Monika’s puke Pugsley, while Monika rides dirt on the Island. Kris is rocking out on Van Gogh, Kate’s starry night themed beauty. I picked this photo because I love the light and the beautiful scenery. It’s almost hard to believe that these trails weave between Whitehorse subdivisions. They look like the kind of place you’d have to drive a car to – instead of starting from a backyard.
This was a tough choice, because it’s clearly the same shot. But, where I picked the previous one for the scene, I chose this one because of the person. I love Jenn’s big grin, but even more I love her flawless wardrobe choices. Notice her blue skirt matches perfectly with her hat and helmet, not to mention the blue of her bicycle. She looks great!
I like this picture, but more importantly I love this section of Quickie. It’s at the end of trail and it is fast and fun. It was hard to get any good pictures through here just because of how quickly the girls flew by.
This was almost a selfish pick/pic, but I chose it because it shows me riding and that was the best thing about today. The riding was awesome. The corners were fast and I actually got good air off three of the rock drops. Today was one of the wonderful days where I felt like I rode my bike, and my bike didn’t ride me.
Pictures 1 and 5 were taken by Jenn; and 2, 3 and 4 were taken by me.
You’ve seen my top 5, now it’s time to check out Jenn’s pic(k)s
I *love* how you cropped that first sun burst shot! And whatever the hell you did to it in PS is great too. And that last one of you was one I had in originally and I really didn’t want to take it out. I liked that it’s a bit more “action-y” than the others. You have again improved it with the crop and other processing.
And selfish? I posted a photo of my helmet.
That was fun! Great idea!
I had originally cropped the picture of Julie with the 3 dogs on her tail, much in the same way as the sunburst one. But, once I saw Marley’s face, I had to go with the sunburst. The other crop on my leaning picture is only because I don’t like how my blog displays portrait oriented photos. I cheated by making it more square like.
I saw your crew heading off through the neighbourhood. A great day to be out, for sure!
Hey Sierra, it’s your old friend Tim. Stumbled upon your site while cruzing lazyrandonneur, great blog, love your writing and your style. Your bikes are sweet, would love to see a post on yours and Tony’s stable.
I so want to do a road tour with you guys, what are the chances of you joining me this spring on a 7-10 day Pacific Coast Tour. I am starting in Portland and heading south, dates are flexible, let’s do this.
Fire me an email I need to send you some photos of my sweet baby.
Tim
Will do…and I’m in on 7-10 tour – especially if it starts in Portland. Can we start at Easter? I can’t do the whole thing. I’ll shoot you an e-mail.