Nikon Showcase Coolpix A on a bike ride

Very nice Ray. I like the pastoral feel to the landscape. I ride and unfortunately we have been in the heat index range of 100+ for about 3 weeks so I haven't enjoyed it quite as much. I'm glad you are back in the saddle.
It's been really hot and humid here a lot as well, and some serious rain days too. I used to be hard core enough to ride through almost any of that. But these days I can barely handle temps in the upper 80's if there's any humidity around. And I used to ride through the winter too, but now I don't go much below about 50-55. But when we get a few nice days in a row, like we've had this week (mid 80's but low humidity), I'm out there. I did another 20 today, pretty easy, but with one killer hill in the middle of it. A decent section at about 8%, which isn't a problem, but then a right turn from 8% onto a hill that's about 14-15%. That was a BIG problem. My climbing isn't anywhere near where it was, either in terms of duration or grade, and that grade was all I could do to get up. And with yesterday's hilly 30 still in my legs, I was a hurting pup by the time I got back to my town today...

-Ray
 
Looks a lot like western Virginia, except the buildings here use different materials. Many of my favorite rides are on old farm roads. You just don't take them driving the car to get somewhere.
My brother lives in Roanoke and I've done some riding down there. Very pretty country as well.

-Ray
 
Just finally logging back in to the site and seeing these. Such a quintessentially "american" looking part of the country, and well captured. Something like the A or an X100 makes an ideal bikalong camera... small, light, and yet potent.
 
A decent section at about 8%, which isn't a problem, but then a right turn from 8% onto a hill that's about 14-15%. That was a BIG problem. My climbing isn't anywhere near where it was, either in terms of duration or grade, and that grade was all I could do to get up. And with yesterday's hilly 30 still in my legs, I was a hurting pup by the time I got back to my town today...

-Ray

Yup. I find it especially humbling to realize that I'm not the rider that I once was. I strained my Achilles tendon grinding up a steep grade (I still have a corn cob in back) that used to be hard 10 years ago and is even harder now.
 
Yup. I find it especially humbling to realize that I'm not the rider that I once was. I strained my Achilles tendon grinding up a steep grade (I still have a corn cob in back) that used to be hard 10 years ago and is even harder now.
You have a corn cob, I have a pie plate. Tough enough hills still hurt no matter how you choose to skin the cat. I wasn't that much of a rider even when I was - my biggest years came in my 40s, so I had the endurance and discipline, but I never had much of a burst. In those days killer hills hurt, but they were still vaguely satisfying and even enjoyable. These days, they just hurt without much upside. But sometimes they're the only way to get from point A to point B - just a damn fact of life...

-Ray
 
Slowly but steady going through the posts. Beautiful scenery that is well captured. Beautiful colors too.
 
Nice set, Ray.

My favorite I think is the last one - the fence in the foreground, the cornfields and other growing things in the background - it has (for me) a geometrical elegance - not unlike some of the Italian paintings of Canaletto (cityscapes of Venice and other cities) which go back to somewhere around the Renaissance .... but share those elegant lines and a sense of pulling the viewer towards a just-out-of-reach horizon. Sorry for the verbiage. Short form: it's a great photo. Period.
 
Nice set, Ray.

My favorite I think is the last one - the fence in the foreground, the cornfields and other growing things in the background - it has (for me) a geometrical elegance - not unlike some of the Italian paintings of Canaletto (cityscapes of Venice and other cities) which go back to somewhere around the Renaissance .... but share those elegant lines and a sense of pulling the viewer towards a just-out-of-reach horizon. Sorry for the verbiage. Short form: it's a great photo. Period.
Thanks Miguel! I see now that you've got a Coolpix A you're reaching pretty far back to check out samples. I'm in a pretty massive lull at the moment, but that's a camera I expect to keep for a good long time...

-Ray
 
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