Week 28 -Guildford Cycle Races

52 Week Challenge, Week 28 – Guildford Cycle Races

This week I walked into town with my camera to see the Guildford Cycle Races.

The evening started great with the little kids giving it everything they had, twice around the road course.

The High Street incline is quite enough if you are shopping but when you are less than 4ft tall and on little wheels it is an enormous challenge and they all tackled it valiantly – some with gritted determination, others with giant smiles as if they were out for a Sunday afternoon jaunt!! Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

There were a couple more age group races, all well attended and performed. And then we were into the serious stuff - adult events.

A lot more speed and fading light made the exercise of taking photographers live up to the title “Challenge”!

So there were a great many images taken but with quite a low rate of successful, useable photos!

The weather was kind, the competitors, organisers, facilitators and crowd all seemed to have a good time and so did I.

What did I learn? Sports photography is very difficult and takes a great deal of practice and patience.

So for now I will stick to slower moving subjects!