Pepper Palace

6 July 2014

The Manhattan Beach Grand Prix was today, and in between my volunteer activities (our bike club sponsors the race) I managed to get in some photography. This is the women's category 1 / 2 field going through turn 4. A member of this team in red, Sarah Fader of the Pepper Palace pro cycling team, did finish in 3rd place. I do not know if this is her, but I caught this rider at the right moment.

At first I thought that she was out of focus, but further inspection shows that the asphalt below is in focus, so I think the fuzziness is just motion blur, even at 1/1000 second shutter speed.

Rika - this team is going to be racing out your way in one week, near Lake Forest north of Chicago. Go have a look!

Canon 5D

Fireworks

5 July 2014:

The scene from Palos Verdes, looking northeast towards Carson. The top one is a composite of 12 multiple exposures taken over about a 3 minute time span, the bottom one is half as many exposures. But, what is that in the sky of the bottom image? A meteor? An airplane? I would like to think it was a meteor, but the sky was probably not dark enough to see one.

Canon 5D