By Chris Wallis on
Saturday, July 02, 2011
Leaving the complications of air travel behind me for the first day of racing
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By Chris Wallis on
Friday, July 01, 2011
Rule 1 never check your camera into the hold...moving onto rule 2 never check anything into the hold
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By Chris Wallis on
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Getting ready for the Grad Depart
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By Chris Wallis on
Saturday, July 03, 2010
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By Chris Wallis on
Friday, July 02, 2010
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By Chris Wallis on
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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By Chris Wallis on
Sunday, November 23, 2008
3 Years in a row now i have kept coming back to Citadel Park to rush of wind a rider zoom's round the boards of Gents Velodrome.
Two years as photograher and one as a spectator has lead to some good sights, say what you will about 6 Day racing they always make it exciting and the crowd always get behind the riders, and not surprisingly the Local lads, Iljo Keisse always get a good cheer with every charge off the front of the bunch.
But in the same way that wrestling can give a good show but if you think hard you can always see the script behind it and you have to wonder how it is the certainly the last few years Keisse with his partner Bartko has fought off some tough competition and to ensure the excitment the lead changed hands serveral times in the last few minutes of the final race, and Keisse finishing with a flourish wining the sprint on the final lap.
You can never deny the effort that the riders put in, riding fo ...
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By Chris Wallis on
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
due to Man flu i was unable to enjoy a beautiful sunday of sport, either on the bike or with just a pair of trainers. So instead i went out to watch and maybe take a few photos.
So i sent myself out on a lovely 10km course, that i have run more than a few times myself, and settled in but hadn't quite realised how long for. I hadn't anticipated quite as many runners as there was there, instead of a few hundred photos i ended up taking almost 800 and given the ease for me of shooting runners, when compared to cyclists i had a much better chance of getting a lot of the people racing as possible. If not for some unprepared capacity issues, you never think you might run out of space when shooting digital but i made it through almost 14Gb of Memory cards.
you can now see almost all of the photos, still got a few left to edit, on the sports gallery, with the newly added search facility you can look for your race number to hopefully find a picture of you
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By Chris Wallis on
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
the prospect of europes highest road mountain pass must be daunting for the riders but exicting from a photographic perspective.
Setting off from my loverly hotel in Spigno Monferrato i set off towards cuneo for the start. A baking hot day in the mountains lie ahead as by mid morning the blue sky was clear of clouds.
Because of the few roads around the area the race route was the only choice and given i was heading for the final climb of the day, the Col Bonnette de Roseland i drove the entire race course.
Starting the long acent of the final climb i kept my eyes open for a place firstly to park and then to take some shots. I ended up passing through the final 5km and ove the top of the climb. It was in my mind to take some shots of decending so as i was walking back up from where i had dumped the car i looked at the corners.
I decied to shot the leaders as the came over the top and the decent was very steep ...
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