Amazing cycling photos by Veeral Patel

[Gat64]

A 2012 season wrap-up. Lots of great shots, but the one of Maxim Iglinski really spells PAIN.

http://www.cyclingtips.com.au/2012/12/reviewing-a-year-in-photographs/

[mike p]

Great pic's. Thanks for posting.

Mike

[AngryScientist]

moved this to general discussion for you. great pics, one of m favorite blogs too.

[whforrest]

Thanks for sharing

[rwsaunders]

Good stuff....thanks.

[Gat64]

moved this to general discussion for you. great pics, one of m favorite blogs too.

Thanks for moving it... too many tabs open I guess.

[henrypretz]

Those are fabulous. Thanks.

[Llewellyn]

Cycling Tips has work from some great photographers. Graham Watson has some serious competition these days (actually TBH, I think his competition has passed him)

[MattTuck]

Thanks for posting, fantastic pics. Wish they were higher resolution so I could use 'em for a desktop wall paper.


This Stelvio pic is epic.

http://d4nuk0dd6nrma.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ONV_3453.jpg

[Louis]

I'm not sure how much, if any, Photo-Shoppping was done, but the background in this image looks really artificial and computer-generated to me.

http://d4nuk0dd6nrma.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/stage_6_tdf_2012_o-nev_5628.jpg

[MattTuck]

I'm not sure how much, if any, Photo-Shoppping was done, but the background in this image looks really artificial and computer-generated to me.


I've never ridden in Europe, so I'm just going to assume it has totally awesome backgrounds all the time...

But seriously, I had the same reaction to this picture. The green is a bit TOO vivid... I'm sure there's a ton of post processing on most of the images we see these days. Hopefully they stay true to the tenants of photo-journalism and focus on presenting the story and facts through pictures without too much editorializing.

http://d4nuk0dd6nrma.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ONV_3047-21.jpg

[basilic]

The green is natural. The light green trees are mélèze, I think larch in English. They turn to rust in the fall and loose the needles over winter, and when they grow back in the spring they are a very tender green.

[tiretrax]

Nice pics, however they were achieved. Filters?

[BumbleBeeDave]

. . . on all the color photos has been jacked up. When you do that it's a very fine line between making them look nicer and going into cartoon territory.

BBD