Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Very good, Nathan. I see you managed to get close ups of Attila Valter and the likely (I suspect) winner Primoz Roglic. Jumbo Visma are such a strong team with the current Vuelta leader Sepp Kuss and twice Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard that it's unlikely Remco Evenepoel will be able to counter such an armoury. I see your compatriot Vingegaard's face peeking out between Valter and Kuss in "Another group approaches". I did catch up with today's stage as I had it recording while I was at the tasting and evaluation of my society's wine collection. I sampled 17 wines in all and was just about able to press the Play button on the TV when I got home... Douglas On 03/09/2023 18:07, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Thanks, Douglas, I appreciate a real aficionado looking at the pics. In > the meantime, I have processed more photos and have enlarged the gallery > to 21 photos: > > https://www.greatpix.eu/Vuelta-a-Espa%C3%B1a-2023/ > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > > > > > > >> On 3 Sep 2023, at 14:15, Douglas Barry<imra at iol.ie> wrote: >> >> Great pix indeed, Nathan. For those of you bewildered by the appeal, I >> love cycling, probably as I've done it competitively in triathlons back >> in the 80s and appreciate just how hard it is. I've been watching every >> stage of this live on Eurosport every day - sadly, bar yesterday. >> >> I had to allow myself to being mauled to within an inch of my life by my >> two year old grandchild instead: we had to mind him and keep him amused >> for four hours. It was supposed to be here in Monkstown, but plans >> changed and, instead, we had to go into Dublin to mind him. Forgot to >> record the stage and had to settle for the highlights which started with >> 67k to go. You were 80k to go, so your global audience dropped by one... >> >> As you probably know, the first group is led by Dylan van Baarle - winner >> of the Paris-Roubaix race last year. For non cyclists, in the complex >> world of team cycling of bluff and counter bluff, he is used as a super >> domestique in the three week races to break the resistance of other >> teams. I see Stefan Bisseggar wearing the pink of the EF Education team >> in the third, and Kevin Vauquelin of Arkea Samsic collecting a bottle in >> the fourth. >> >> I can't watch today's stage either as I have a tasting with my wine >> society this afternoon, but I have the Vuelta set to record as I type. >> >> Douglas >> >> >> On 02/09/2023 20:49, Nathan Wajsman wrote: >>> There are 3 grand tours in professional cycling?the Giro d?Italia in the >>> spring, the Tour de France in July, and the Vuelta a Espa?a in >>> August/September. Today, the 8th stage of the Vuelta passed through >>> what I call ?my playground?, the mountains in the interior of Alicante >>> province. As usual, I picked a spot to watch the race that would allow >>> for good photo opportunities: going uphill (meaning relatively slow >>> speed) and late in the stage, so that the peloton would be broken up >>> into several groups. I drove to a bar 6 km from the penultimate mountain >>> pass of the stage, a place which I visit on two wheels myself, and >>> things worked out great. I had a nice vantage point and took a lot of >>> photos. These are the initial serving that I particularly liked: >>> >>> https://www.greatpix.eu/Vuelta-a-Espa%C3%B1a-2023/ >>> >>> Tomorrow, I will climb the Carrasqueta on bicycle (unless it is >>> raining?cycling uphill on wet roads is OK but descending on wet curvy >>> roads is not OK). >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Nathan >>> >>> Nathan Wajsman >>> photo at frozenlight.eu >>> >>> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >>> http://www.greatpix.eu >>> http://www.frozenlight.eu >>> >>> ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> Seehttp://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> Seehttp://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > Seehttp://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information