Tour de France

It is impressive to be at the side of the road when the riders of the Tour de France come by. It has been a long hot tour, and yet even on the last day their strength is remarkable.

Positioned at the quayside, next to the Jardins de Tuileries, it was fun to try capture some of the action. Yes one could up the ISO, or open up the aperture to freeze the cyclists, who must be doing 50 - 60 km/h. Instead, it seemed more fun to try get some motion blur of the background. I won't let you know my success rate, but it wasn't high. Good thing they did eight laps of the finishing circuit around the Place de la Concorde and the up the Champs-Elysées.

Here are some efforts that came out OKish.

Is that Daniel OSS (46) of LIQUIGAS-DOIMO?

Difficult to be sure, but perhaps 153, Anthony CHARTEAU of team BBOX BOUYGUES TELECOM

 Francesco BELLOTTI (42) of team LIQUIGAS-DOIMO 

Maxime BOUET (82) of team AG2R LA MONDIALE

 Steve MORABITO from BMC RACING TEAM

Christophe RIBLON (89) of team AG2R LA MONDIALE