If It’s Sunday, It’s Racing in Washington
Sep 22nd, 2008 by Brian
Nation’s Triathlon, originally uploaded by Brian Knight Photography.
ING Capital Criterium, originally uploaded by Brian Knight Photography.
Spent the last two Sunday’s hanging out downtown covering races.
On the 14th I teamed up with Dan Hicok Photography to shoot the third annual Nation’s Triathlon. Several thousand people swam in the Potomac and then biked and ran past monuments, museums, and Federal buildings. As a result I ended up taking several thousand photographs and am still working on the final edits though I did manage to post a bunch to a teaser gallery.
Yesterday found me hanging out on Pennsylvania Ave again this time shooting the ING Capital Criterium for DCist. The highlight was an 85km race that saw professional cyclists from around the world fighting for the $50,000 prize purse. I tried to be a bit more disciplined yesterday, but still managed to shoot over two thousand photos (something super easy to do considering the race course was only a 1km loop, meaning I saw the pack 85 times in two hours - avg speed was 24mph). Still have a lot more photos to edit, but the teaser gallery for this race is here and you can look for them to show up today on DCist too!
