Touring - Bike Touring Photo Challenge

I thought I'd see if there was any interest in a little photo contest - well not really a contest as we won't be picking a winner - just a friendly challenge between bike touring photographers.

Here's the deal anyone who wants to participate posts one picture from a bike tour - one of their favourites. You only get to post one so you'll have to really decide which one you love the most.

The only other condition is it must have a touring bike [not necessarily a rider] in the pic.

I've got a lot of pics I like, but this one is definitely a favourite from my Baja tour in 2006 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vikapproved/sets/72157603997077952/):

http://bp0.blogger.com/_vUEhS0lU3eU/SAn3uepgxeI/AAAAAAAAE4s/ntdRu7Kynjc/s400/baja.jpg

If you are not sure how to post pics, but you want to share one just PM me and I'll either walk you through it or post it for you.

I have to pick only one?? That is cruel and unusual punishment!! I guess I'll go with the Baja/tent theme and post this one from our family adventure in Baja in 2006/2007.

http://pic18.picturetrail.com/VOL908/4029554/9779779/313893046.jpg

http://www.gonesouthblog.com/images/mar24/glenorchy.jpg
My wife on our way to Glenorchy from Queenstown in New Zealand.

Crossing the Sendero of Lago del Desierto at the end of the Careterra Austral from Villa O'Higgins, Chile to Chalten, Argentina.


http://lh5.ggpht.com/imjibi/RTZd-rNEABI/AAAAAAAAATM/8-XY5tBLV84/s400/PIC_0417.JPG

great idea vik haven't any myself but ill enjoy looking at everyone else's,this could be the best post on bike forum well thought out .

http://www.gonesouthblog.com/images/mar24/glenorchy.jpg
My wife on our way to Glenorchy from Queenstown in New Zealand.

I like the depth of field in this picture!
Goes on forever.

Light touring in the south of England, following Paris-Brest-Paris.

After a week of steady rain in the north of France, this view of the bay outside Bournemouth, England was heaven.

One photo! That's like choosing your favorite kid. Here's one from Charlevoix, Québec, just before a 2km at 19%:

http://www.borealphoto.com/photos/215905872_kaQiP-Ti-2.jpg (http://www.borealphoto.com/photos/215905872_kaQiP-XL-2.jpg)

http://www.biketouringtips.com/bike.journals/SF2CarsonCity/P9170144.JPG

While this isn't a great picture, it was a great accomplishment!

Ray

awesome pics ~

http://bp3.blogger.com/_aaYpX0Fj4aU/R51ENdFfcDI/AAAAAAAABQQ/n7itWv1EERc/s400/caldera_bikeridepaul+104.jpg

Wollumbin (Mt Warning) ~ northern nsw ~ Australia

This thread is too good. I can't wait to contribute once this semester is over.

Keep them coming these are great!

I was kind of happy after reaching this summit

Allison Pass on the Crow's Nest (#3), BC

Near Achmelvich, Scotland's west coast.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v375/the_chris_man_50/other/ach3.jpg

Touring in France..... It is always more fun going down..

http://i31.tinypic.com/2m5hr2c.jpg

I have not done much yet. This was from my first bikpacking trip in February.
http://otbmbc.smugmug.com/photos/255888301_izZYJ-M.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~staehpj1/2grads/misty.jpg
It was hard to pick just one, but this is one of my favorites from our 2007 TA. The location is near the Kentucky/Virginia border and Breaks Interstate Park.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/Grimstalk/Picture153.jpg

From my bike tour of Cuba.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/KyleAndrewArcher/R5to1LlRk6I/AAAAAAAAAf0/GnAGJiAcqSo/Quantock%20039.jpg?imgmax=640

A track somewhere in Europe, my favourite type of surface

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c333/leftsneaky/Bike%20Corvallis%20October%202007/TiredasYouAre.jpg

At a park in Oregon. I was exhausted, and my bike looked like it felt the same.

http://www.gonesouthblog.com/images/mar24/glenorchy.jpg
My wife on our way to Glenorchy from Queenstown in New Zealand.

That's amazing. I'd like to see what it looked like where you were riding to if you were riding away from that.

Makin' a little extra haulin' on the side:

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z142/JohnWoodworthCA/PacidicCoastHighwayBikeSummer07096.jpg

I was kind of happy after reaching this summit

Allison Pass on the Crow's Nest (#3), BC

Good thing it wasn't winter!! :D

I vote for niknak's picture.

Here's one of a butterfly licking my saddle. I was camping near Tupelo, Mississippi. My saddle had absorbed a lot of sweat by then.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1026/1138772476_579c643c14.jpg

I vote for niknak's picture.

It is a very nice picture, but we are not voting. I'd much rather encourage more people to post photos than worry about which one is "best".

Along the Donau Radweg last year...

http://www.schwiiz.org/slider/image.php?file=..%2Fphotos%2Fpictures%2Fbiketours%2F200706-2007DonauBikeTour%2F2007-06-11-134250-stitched.jpg&quality=95&sizex=900

Somewhere along the "P'tit train du nord" trail. I'm guessing it's a few miles south of Val-David (Québec), but I'm not 100% sure.

http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=69972&d=1208770998

Brilliant idea, Vik. Thanks all for sharing. Now I gotta find one.

This one is just before the Buller Gorge in New Zealand.

http://www.roundtheworld.ca/w31-9.jpg

i love nicnak's pic!!!!

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s289/pkhakes/WWP%20Roll%20Aid%2008/Day4steve002.jpg?t=1208874877

I don't know if this is my favorite, but it's handy. It was the first photo that I took on the first morning of camp on my '06 tour. When you crawl out of the tent on that first morning of a tour and it looks this great, you get that indescribable feeling that you're in for an amazing journey! Taken near Oakdale, California.

Safe journeys,

Ted

http://www.daystarbotanicals.com/discovery06/xcslides/_firstmorning_700x525_web.jpg

Favorite? Hmmm, too many to decide from. Here's one of my wife taken on our 2007 Alaska tour.

http://www.pbase.com/image/95982165.jpg

Here's our Alaska Tour Journal (http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/north) where there are many more images from that trip.

Tailwinds,

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/2344117158_a7db310e9c_b.jpg

i have a better picture of this somewhere, i'll have to find it. probably one of my favorites.

kind of late to the party......

my favorite"bike touring at camp" picture in the last couple of years. I'd have to go thru my road shots for a good action photo, but Vik's first photo of his campsite made me want to post this one from a June bike/ski tour into the Central Cascades...

Katy Trail between Rocheport and Jefferson City Missouri

Kids at School, Northern Laos

http://vwvagabonds.com/Publicity/KidswithAmanda.JPG


Amanda Crossing a Bridge in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

http://vwvagabonds.com/Publicity/AmandaCrossingBridgeonBikeGood.JPG

http://lh4.ggpht.com/matthewjmccarthy/R-_WlM6cwLI/AAAAAAAABFU/M4lVW_g5qUw/s800/GAP02.jpg

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r154/n4zou/HPIM0039.jpg

i love this one, from lopez island off vancouver...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/43333777_3859dad08d.jpg (http://flickr.com/photos/joeyjoejoe/43333777/in/set-973351)

malibu, ca

http://www.roundtheworld.ca/w31-9.jpg[/QUOTE][QUOTE=Fueled by Boh;6571209]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/2344117158_a7db310e9c_b.jpg

I''m sorry, but I can't help myself; Have you looked at a Click-Stand? My best touring Photo to follow.

Tom

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s289/pkhakes/WWP%20Roll%20Aid%2008/Day4steve002.jpg?t=1208874877

I like this photo a lot. Thanks for posting it.

malibu, ca
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=70441&d=1209430269


can you please explain this photo, mostly what is happening in the tent. (is that fire coming out the top??)

can you please explain this photo, mostly what is happening in the tent. (is that fire coming out the top??)

Looks like wood burning stove in a tee pee style tent...so the chimney is coming out the top with smoke and burning ash.

Henke - thank you. For the record, it was taken last month a little South of Marble Falls, Texas. Visibility was actually a bit better at the time the photo was taken than it had been earlier.

This photo is taken of my wife while we were riding up the Furka Pass in the Swiss Alps. It was pouring with rain and we were were riding alongside a 25ft wall of snow wondering if it was going to come crashing down. The climb took about 3 hours but other than the rain was great fun.


http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=70473&stc=1&d=1209483936

That looks really cold!

That looks really cold!

It wasn't that bad actually, just very wet and very long.

Just one to test the system. The thumbnail upload works.