[Leica] IMG: La Vuelta a España 2023
Don Dory
don.dory at gmail.com
Sun Sep 3 01:12:56 PDT 2023
>From the pictures the attending crowd was a little sparse. It could be the
length of the stage or your chosen location wasn't as exciting as a late
downhill portion with bends in the course.
On Sat, Sep 2, 2023 at 2:50 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
> There are 3 grand tours in professional cycling—the Giro d’Italia in the
> spring, the Tour de France in July, and the Vuelta a España in
> August/September. Today, the 8th stage of the Vuelta passed through what I
> call “my playground”, the mountains in the interior of Alicante province.
> As usual, I picked a spot to watch the race that would allow for good photo
> opportunities: going uphill (meaning relatively slow speed) and late in the
> stage, so that the peloton would be broken up into several groups. I drove
> to a bar 6 km from the penultimate mountain pass of the stage, a place
> which I visit on two wheels myself, and things worked out great. I had a
> nice vantage point and took a lot of photos. These are the initial serving
> that I particularly liked:
>
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Vuelta-a-Espa%C3%B1a-2023/
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> Tomorrow, I will climb the Carrasqueta on bicycle (unless it is
> raining—cycling uphill on wet roads is OK but descending on wet curvy roads
> is not OK).
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
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> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
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