About the Tour of California photographs

Posted on 18 May 2010

Since all of the cycling photographs might confuse some site visitors who are more familiar with my natural and urban landscapes, night photography, and so forth… a bit of explanation.

I used to be a very active cyclist. Although I never raced myself, I trained with folks who did, and I was a very serious cyclist. I put in multiple 10,000+ mile years during that period.

So the cycling stuff is “in my blood,” so to speak, and when the Amgen Tour of California comes to northern California each year I’m there to photograph as much of it as I can. I photographed it since the first year when it began with the time trial stage to the top of Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.

This year my opportunities to photograph the event are more limited, and it is likely that I’ll only be able to shoot the first stage – from which the current images are taken. Rather than posting a whole batch of photographs at once, I prefer to share them one at a time. So over the next week or so expect to see a lot of bicycle racing photographs here!

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3 comments to About the Tour of California photographs

Christopher

says:

May 18, 2010 at 10:49 am

Dan,

As someone who loves your photographs and a cyclist, I have been eagerly waiting for your ATOC pictures. I was lucky enough to get to take some photographs at the Tour de Suisse last year and it was amazing.

Keep up the good work.

Christopher

G Dan Mitchell says:

May 18, 2010 at 12:03 pm

Thanks, Christopher. I’m jealous of you for getting to shoot the Tour de Suisse!

Dan

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Christopher

says:

May 19, 2010 at 8:17 am

It was awesome. I was able to go to both ITTs for the Tour. For the second time trail, I was able to sit in the middle of the road on a cement landing shooting in two directions with the route overlapped itself.