Written by: Chris Wallis
Thursday, July 26, 2007

After the thrills of the mountains with lots of choices to stop and take shot today’s flat’ish stage left me wanting it to be the weekend and the time trial and the Paris stage to go.

I headed out in front of the race looking for somewhere to stop and the only spot I found, a nice downhill stretch with a little country church on it, but it was far too close to the finish that there was no chance to make it back in front of the race in time. Having spent the last few days driving through farm land filled with sunflowers, I was hoping for a classic cycling shot “riders with sunflowers” but was denied all the sunflowers were either facing the wrong way or looking more than a little dead.

This left me with a hope that there was a nice corner in the last km of the finish to get a shot on, sadly in was almost 900m straight with no real corner to catch them coming into.

I was stuck with the finish shot and too short a lens again, so not a great shooting day, although getting a wide shot of riders in the distance and on the big screen made for a slightly interesting shot.

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