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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