{"id":1026,"date":"2011-11-24T17:03:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T09:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2011-11-24T17:06:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T09:06:06","slug":"rider-portraits-tour-de-bintan-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/rider-portraits-tour-de-bintan-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Rider Portraits &#8211; Tour De Bintan 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After each of the stages I tried to grab some quick portraits of some of the riders.\u00a0 I felt sorry for them having a camera shoved in their face as soon as they had finished racing but hey, that&#8217;s the life a cyclist, pro or not.\u00a0 I took my inspiration from an amazing photographer <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timmkoelln.com\/\">Timm Kolln<\/a><\/span> and his book &#8216;The Peloton&#8217;.\u00a0 Up and coming cycling photographer <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onev.com.au\/\">Veeral Patel<\/a><\/span> also encouraged me to get in there and get some closeups of the dirt and sweat us cyclists have to endure during racing.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve intentionally over sharpened the images to hopefully bring out the pain and suffering they had to endure but most of them seemed happy to see me and gave me a smile.<\/p>\n<p>Click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/craigsheppard.photodeck.com\/-\/galleries\/bike\/rider-portraits\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to see a few more portraits on my website.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1030\" title=\"img_Sports_0226\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/img_Sports_0226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/img_Sports_0226.jpg 820w, https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/img_Sports_0226-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1031\" title=\"img_Sports_0227\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/img_Sports_0227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/img_Sports_0227.jpg 820w, https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/img_Sports_0227-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1032\" title=\"img_Sports_0228\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/img_Sports_0228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/img_Sports_0228.jpg 820w, https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/img_Sports_0228-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1033\" title=\"img_Sports_0229\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/img_Sports_0229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/img_Sports_0229.jpg 820w, https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/img_Sports_0229-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1034\" title=\"img_Sports_0230\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/img_Sports_0230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/img_Sports_0230.jpg 820w, https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/img_Sports_0230-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After each of the stages I tried to grab some quick portraits of some of the riders.\u00a0 I felt sorry for them having a camera shoved in their face as soon as they had finished racing but hey, that&#8217;s the life a cyclist, pro or not.\u00a0 I took my inspiration from an amazing photographer Timm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/rider-portraits-tour-de-bintan-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rider Portraits &#8211; Tour De Bintan 2011<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,16,25,17,32],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","tag-craig-sheppard","tag-cycling","tag-road-cycling","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-bintan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigsheppard.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}