Comments on: Tour de France, London

By: Scotland Guy

Scotland Guy — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:11:01 +0000

Superb photograph. Most people would try to make the crowd blurred and the bike in focus but this opposite works really well. Cool.

By: Ingrid

Ingrid — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:55:22 +0000

I could say: Yeah I knew that when I was shooting that picture,

But the truth is, of course, as with most of my pictures, I had no idea about this! I first spot this now in my own picture, and have to say, yeah, that looks rather funky! :) A lucky shot I guess.

By: Joachim

Joachim — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:44:40 +0000

I agree with Michele, you’ve taken the picture spot on the right moment.
Perhaps you can sell it?

By: Michele

Michele — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:29:32 +0000

How artistic that the pose of the rider echoes the rider incorporated into the red D in the London part of the logo! He appears to have burst from the sky-blue section of the banner to join in the race!

Gold star for Ingrid!

By: Jill

Jill — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:55:06 +0000

It really is intriguing – why does the Tour *de France* go to London? :) But very cool logo anyway!

Very funny to picture you diving from goodies being thrown :)

By: Ingrid

Ingrid — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:34:49 +0000

About the bobby hats – I was joking!!

@Matron: I can see your problem, but hey, this was a one time only event for London. And I guess you couldn’t take the tube to get around? As that was working fine.

@Pedro: I will try to score a picture of a girl for you sometime :-)

@grigorisgirl: well I took a kazillion pictures, and only few of them were OK. :-)

Oh, about the freebies:
I got a hat thrown in my face, which I delivered to the boy beside me. I got hit by a couple of Moar (not sure I spelled it right) bars, I ate one of them, and got hit by a pen, which I took with me. For the rest of the stuff: I dived.

By: grigorisgirl

grigorisgirl — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:11:15 +0000

Great picture. I’m impressed you got even one good photo. My attempts at sports photography with a digital camera have always left me with a foot at the side of the photo and an empty field.

But Policeman’s hats sexy??!! I’ve always thought they make our police look more buffoon-like and that was before Rowan Atkinson!!!

I agree about the logo.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 07:55:35 +0000

A Bobby hat sexy? When I see a Constabulary Hat I must think of “The Thin Blue Line” with Rowan Atkinson. I don’t know why, but it’s not sexy!
Wonder why the TdF doesn’t stay in France. The country is big enough, isn’t it?
I guess I would try to catch some lollies too :-)
The logo for TdF London is defenitely beter than the one for the Olympics in 2012.
Yes, great picture, but I don’t fancy men’s legs. When does the Tour Féminin start?

By: Matron

Matron — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 07:16:53 +0000

I’m sure this event is thrilling lots of people, but it’s playing havoc with the traffic in one of the World’s most already congested cities. It took me 2 hours driving to get to work in London yesterday, and I’m not looking forward to the drive today either. Completely shutting off a major city to traffic is not pleasant to those of us who have to go to work! Sorry for the rant… great photo, hoped you enjoyed yourself. Did you get any freebies?

By: kate

kate — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:34:16 +0000

Whew … you are so lucky!! I would love to see part of the Tour up close … yes, those legs are something else … this guy’s particularly so!! Maybe an uphill spot on a mountain stage would be a good thing – they’d be going slower.

And London looked very lovely on my TV although we have to listen to the American coverage …