Tabor Bike Race
SE Portland, Mount Tabor
June 22, 2005, 8:52 PM
f3.2, 1/30 sec, 59mm equiv focal length
The park is closed to cars on Wednesdays. I went up hoping for some good sunset pics, and found this group doing a 15-lap circuit. There were somewhere around 20-25 riders. Overheard: they do this weekly. Turned out the bikers were a more interesting subject than the sky that night. I was using low shutter speed, and challenged myself to match hand-held camera pan speed with the passing bikers, to get a sharp moving subject and blurring the background. It took some practice, and only a few really worked.
