Where have the last two weeks gone? Apologies for my absence, and welcome to July!
June ended with taking way too many photos at the local Thame 10k. It's a popular race that attracts almost 1,000 entries each year, and in good weather it's a pb course. This time however it was run in extremely hot and humid conditions, and people were dropping left, right and centre, to the extent that there weren't enough first aiders to go round at the finish! I should add that the provison of first aid would have been more than adequate in normal conditions but the 28th of June was far from normal. Hopefully all have made a swift recovery and are back running again.
Too many photos? Well yes, from my point of view, as I didn't have the following day off work to do the processing and add them to my site. Nevertheless, I managed to post 700 photos by yesterday morning. For the first time I've used much lower resolution and a watermark, and frankly I don't like them all that much but needs must. If I'm to sell any, then I mustn't make the downloadable ones too appealing! I may have gone a little too far with the low resolution though.
So it was a relief when I realised that I could show the photos of my Tring Running Clubmates in a higher resolution as a sort of shop window, to demonstrate the quality of the other photos.
One race Ihaven't recorded is the Marston Forest 5k, on Friday 19th. I found a nice spot by the 4k marker, sat down and leant against a tree, and got some great shots, especially of the leaders approaching me . .
I mailed the race secretary about my photos and they've added a massive link to my site which looks great (check this out) which is almost embarrassing as they seem to have overlooked the official photographer. But only almost . .
Right . . I'm running in a race on Saturday, that'll make a nice change. It's the Birmingham & Black Country ½ Marathon, a pleasant amble down the canal from Wolverhampton to Birmingham, and I'm looking forward to it.
Back behind the camera on Sunday of course, at the Princes Risborough 10k, but I'll try and blog again before then . .
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