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Sporting loyalty is all about the triumph of hope over experience.
Maybe you stand in a cold field, singing out of tune and waving your scarf instead of doing the sensible thing and wearing it, while your team crashes to their twentieth successive defeat.
Or else you climb a high hill, spray-paint your heroes' names on the road, then wait two hours in the rain for a fleeting, blurred glimpse of them as they hurtle past at 70kph.
Either way, you can say, in Max Boyce's immortal words,'I was there!'.
A b&w conversion of my favourite picture from last week's Tour of Britain cycle race.
Thanks for looking,
Moira
| Brand: | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera: | Nikon D90  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Lens: | 16.0-85.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 11 Sep 2012 - 11:11 AM |
| Focal Length: | 31mm |
| Lens Max Aperture: | f/4.4 |
| Aperture: | f/7.1 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/500sec |
| Exposure Comp: | 0.0 |
| ISO: | 400 |
| Exposure Mode: | Shutter speed priority AE |
| Metering Mode: | Multi-segment |
| Flash: | No Flash |
| White Balance: | As Shot |
| Title: | The fan |
| Username: | 
mrswoolybill |
| Uploaded: | 18 Sep 2012 - 7:56 AM |
| Tags: | Black & white, People, Photo journalism, Sports / action |
| Votes: | 58 |
Comments
Thanks early birds. Albert, this was very carefully composed, I'm not cropping it!
Ann - we saw Cav win the sprint finish that day, two days later he crashed from 1st to 49th overall and Wiggo went down with a tummy bug. That's life...
Moira
Thanks Ken. B&W carries the truth of the moment better for me. Perhaps it's because all my earliest memories are i mono.
Sorry for very little activity on site, our holiday cottage wifi works at snail's pace, I can go and make a cup of tea while waiting for a page to load.
Moira
The spirit of the moment caught so well Moira, keeping in the jumble of cars adds the moment to the image, the crush of cars bringing the fans and marshals to the event, all the fun of the day about to explode for a moment or two.
Dougie
The 'man or muppet' would suggest to me he's not quite that big a fan. Well composed reportage whichever.
Dave
The graffiti on the A24 to Box Hill done during the Olympics are still as fresh as a daisy.
Future generations will wonder who the heck " CAM " was as they glide over the messages in their hovercars.
A good going over with a can of grey would sort it.
C l i v e
We are a very strange species don't you think, well some don't think at all lol. I like street art when it's done as an improvement to drab surroundings, but graffiti for it's own sake is not a must for me!, the cost can be astronomical over the course of time. great photo suited well to B&W like it, regards Leon.
What a great shot - and it really made me chuckle! Well spotted and captured, Moira
Trev 
Quote: Not how I would have cropped it but nevertheless a very fine candid capture and perfect in black 'n white.
Albert
think I might agree re the crop but like the mono appearance
Great description Moira, and yes, it works well in mono too.
John
I'm glad someone has mentioned that pocket at last...
Moira
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