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Re: [OM] Photos from RAGBRAI day 5 -- I made it!

Subject: Re: [OM] Photos from RAGBRAI day 5 -- I made it!
From: Joel Wilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:45:20 -0500
Thanks for looking, Bob.  I tended to shoot with my DZ 40-150.  It's a
slow zoom, but it can get a bit of blur wide open and it's pretty sharp.

Joel W.

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012, at 10:25 PM, Robert Adler wrote:
> Great you took a nice camera along! Love some of the costumes and people.
> My favorite is of the handlebars (but I'm a sucker for shallow DOF).
> Bob
> 
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Joel Wilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > Reporting in from Day 5 of RAGBRAI, the "[Des Moines] Register's Great
> > Bike Ride Across Iowa." 20,000 riders this year.  I don't know whether
> > that is official or unofficial, the unofficial being much larger because
> > it would, I guess, include people like me who just pop in and ride a day
> > or two if they can.  Having lived in Iowa all but two years in which
> > RAGBRAI has been running over these last 40 years, I feel somehow
> > strange admitting that this was my first time to ride in it.
> >
> > Yesterday was a long day at 92 miles, but the conditions were great with
> > tail winds most of the way and much cooler temps than previous days.  I
> > was definitely gassed at the end, but it was an ego trip because of such
> > nice tail winds.  I rode my Fuji 10-speed that I bought in 1976.  I'm
> > sure there were older bikes, but I never saw one.  I was passed by many
> > and I passed many myself.  My brother and I stayed together and finished
> > with about six hours of actual riding time.  We were happy.
> >
> > I was also the only person I saw who carried an SLR.  I took my E-410
> > and two lenses in my rack bag.  The photos are mainly snaps in the towns
> > we rested and refueled in.
> >
> > http://jfwilcox.jalbum.net/RAGBRAI%20day%205/
> >
> > May I make a suggestion?  Click the first image to open it and then
> > click the "i" in the legend that appears at the top of the screen to get
> > the narrative to appear.
> >
> > Many colorful jerseys, many senioritas, and even a bit of frontal
> > nudity.  It was quite an experience.  I did what I could but it's really
> > hard to do it justice.
> >
> > Joel W.

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