FSC #1 Tallahassee 2007

These ~1100 snaps are from Gone Riding's Florida State Championship Series race #1 in Tom Brown Park's Magnolia Trail and the adjoining Lafayette Heritage Park (Cadillac Trail). I used 2 cameras - I began sorting the photos chronologically. These are photos after #7260, Dave Stotts' reporter/interview photo. (I missed by 7-8 minutes when attempting to synchronize the two cameras' clocks. Doh! So SmugMug's ability to auto-sort a gallery chronologically is useless in this case.) I went ahead and gave an extremely cursory thinning out of these photos. Deleted ~50 that were badly out of focus. I missed many more that could have also been deleted. The vast majority of the shots were with my beater D70 and 50mm f/1.8D (75mm digital crop equivalent) run mostly on the wide open side of things. This is a good combo for low light in the deep woods, but hard to focus when the action is in tight. (You riders saw how I had to wedge off-trail in the weeds as you whizzed by.) Depth of field is non-forgiving, hence risk of out of focus. But these are free, so no whining, ok? As to my abysmal photo skills, I'm a runner with a camera (or two) in my hand, not a photographer. I do suggest some PS "FILL-FLASH/REDUCE BACKLIGHT" before printing many of the backlit shots. In other words, if your face is dark, but the background is bright. Contact me if you don't know what that means. Nearly all of the morning photos (White Wave) are from the Cadillac Trail section of the race. All of the after 11:30am race shots (Yellow Wave) are from Magnolia Trail. 2006 FSC#3 (Tallahassee) photos are here: http://tallahasseetrails.smugmug.com/gallery/1980956 Many thanks to David and Terri Berger and their kids. You know them better as http://www.goneriding.com/ Look to their site for results and more photos from this race. That link will be this: http://www.goneriding.com/EVENTS.htm As of 17 Sep, results and more photos are posted here: http://www.goneriding.com/2007/FSC/FSC-1-Tall/results.htm (results) http://tinyurl.com/2jop4k (photos) Tallahassee Democrat race wrap-up article by David Stotts, here: http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070918/SPORTS/709180320/1002/SPORTS I want to give thanks to Dave and to TPRD's Chuck Goodheart for helping avoid conflicts between pre-riders on Saturday morning and our Lincoln HS Invite XC Meet. As best I could tell from my perch on the lead Pugsley, everything went off without a hitch. You guys rock! With ~1100 shots, you may find it easier to navigate if you change the gallery "style" (top right) from "smugmug" to "all thumbs." Or "slideshow" or "filmstrip" or . . . you get the idea, it's configurable by you. I usually like "journal." THIS SITE is private property, and doesn't necessarily represent any other individual or organization. You are welcome to download/use my photos for your private enjoyment, including printing them. Any other usage/linking must come from me in writing (email ok), with credit given. Questions, pre-scoldings, comments, ID, complaints? Thanks, John Kalin Email me "If I fall you're going down with me" - Trail running advice from my Dixie Chicks http://www.tallahasseetrails.com/