The purpose of this Blog is to promote bicycling and photography in a way that is practical and useful for everyone and anyone. It also combines two activities that go together like peanut butter and jelly..... or bread and butter..... in other words, they belong with one another. Those are bicycling and photography. Why, you ask? If I drive my car, I drive right on by so many photos that I would have seen, and would have been able to stop for on my bike. It always amazes me when I'm out on the bike and people roar by in their cars and pickup trucks, oblivious to everything around them. Just today, I was out on my bike with my camera taking pictures of this.....
and a fellow in a pickup stopped by and wondered if I was OK, and asked what I was doing way out there on a bicycle. I replied that I was taking pictures of all the Fall color around this year, it has been just spectacular, and he looked at me kinda funny and replied...."Oh yeah? ..... I really hadn't noticed..." My point exactly. So....I bicycle, and I look, and I observe, and I can stop anywhere, and take photos of anything, and see much more than anyone in a car. It takes up a lot of time doing that, and you don't cover a whole lot of ground, but the added benefit is you gain your health back in the process. I have been on my bike and saw a gentleman drive his pickup from his house out two hundred feet to the road, turn around pull up to his mailbox, retrieve his mail ..... then I caught up to him and said.... "howdy, pretty day today isn't it". He said it sure was, and asked me how far I was riding on my bike, and I replied, "Oh, around 50 miles or so" after which he told me "I couldn't ride one of them things 50 feet" and I smiled and rode on. Yep, it's true..... if you don't get out and do something, it'll never get done. The hardest miles of a bicycle ride across the country is the first one. There are a million excuses, but it's only youself you are fooling.
There will be from time to time hints and tips on both bicycling and photography, not because I'm any expert, but because over the years I have found things that work for me, and I would like to pass them on. If anything that I post on here will help someone...... great, even if only one person benefits from my experiences, it'll be worth the time and effort I've put into this blog. You will find that a lot of my tips involve things that don't cost a lot of money, a lot of them are "make-do" sort of things that involve a certain input by you! They are, however, things that work, and have continued to serve me well over the years. So, with that, this has been a lengthy enough introduction to my blog, and I want to welcome you, the reader here, and hope that you'll enjoy your time spent here. Let's get started in my first real post about camera's to take along on a bicycle ride, why I chose what I did, and how to make everything work for you along the way. Here goes........
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