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Yes, try and join in, if not on a bike just mingle and ask about the cause.
It's easy to spot the snappers that get people annoyed, they are so determined to get shots, they lose all aspects of normal politeness. I know a good number of ride organisers, having helped out for several years at the rides, just be social and 'normal', give respect to riders, don't photo girls undressing unless you are well away from them and if you ask for a photo and are refused, compliment them on their paint/ costume and say thanks anyway, 'have a great ride'! If I get to a ride, that's what I'll be doing, anyway. The UK is just going into a two week period of warm weather, let's hope it's true!!!! |
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I know that, British weather permitting, there are going to be a fair few women on the Southampton ride this Friday. I know three of them personally. |
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Not to suggest you shouldn't do what all the others have said, but the extreme sensitivity of that camera means you have additional options. :D Btw, I'd be remiss not to mention that using a higher ISO setting means your pictures look grainier and lose detail, so be wary of pushing it higher than necessary. |
Weather looks good for Southampton, tonight. If anybody is going, best photo opportunities are in the park at the start, as riders wait around and in the road just outside as a narrow gate causes a bottleneck!
You can get shots as they return, but as it's late by then and colder, people normally dress very quickly. Expect only a handful of fully nude student types, but often it's quality over quantity in Southampton! |
Any chance of some shots of the best part of the ride? thats when the riders undress, no-one ever seems to photo them taking their clothes off, would be nice!
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If you really want to get riders pissed off, try and take photos of them stripping! Only try to catch that with a long lens.
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I agree with a previous poster that the best way to photograph is to participate. I was speaking last year with a woman considering doing the London Ride. I asked if she worried about being photographed naked and posted online. Her response was that that was kind of the point. It was to raise awareness of the cause and the nudity was used instead of a huge advertising budget, to ensure it went viral. I asked if she would consider posing nude for photographers after the ride. Her answer? "If they've got their cocks out".
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In my own dealings with WNBR riders, the majority recognise that what you might term 'serious photographers' - ie people there for the primary purpose of getting decent quality coverage of the event, which requires fairly heavyweight equipment - pretty much have to be dressed as they'll be flitting about the streets away from the ride a lot of the time.
In the rides I've covered, it's definitely your demeanour and interaction with the participants that marks you out as OK or not. Given that you had men who were taking part walking about trying to get women to pose with them (and their prominent erections), I think just being naked is definitely not a guarantee of being accepted. Any more than being dressed will mean you get a bad reaction. The famous/infamous Mr Tache is a good case in point. He takes part in the rides but is always fully dressed. And yet he obviously has some charm about him as numerous people, male and female, were more than happy to pose with him in Brighton last year. I got a few shots of him with various people. |
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Regrettably small examples of the regrettably few women toutes nues in Thessaloniki Greece (though I think I briefly glimpsed another, lovely and unpainted, in the videos starting to pop up at yt under the "naked bike" search); tonight there are also Southampton (UK, and thus probably over by now, but haven't seen pictures yet) and Bellingham (WA USA, and going to start in a bit under one hour)...
Edit: I tell a lie, found one Southampton; doesn't look too promising though... |
Columbus, OH
I saw a FB posting about the Columbus ride. They claim to have had 1,000 people last year. I just might join them since Chicago is the next closest ride and its a GOOD drive.
The party after the ride should be the most fun. And YES they are watching over the entry to keep people out who did not participate in the ride. On bikeforums.net somebody posted asking what would be the right vintage bike to ride in the event in Portland. :) -r |
Southampton looked like Portsmouth part two! From what I've seen, just one lady rider, one who has ridden many times before.
I'm beginning to think that outside the ' big two' rides in London and Brighton women nude riders have deserted this event in the UK. London long range forecast looks good and not too bad for Brighton either, they are probably our best hopes this year. On a positive note, Brighton FB page has almost 800 confirmed riders, 200 up on this time last year, fingers crossed!!!!! |
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vimeo.com/129952429 - Promo for the Buffalo ride.
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Cardiff. Enjoy.
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Anyone going to the Edmonton, Canada ride? Apparently it's the first WNBR they've ever had. Wonder how the turnout will be.
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Bravo Cardiff!!
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wooow Cardiff, beautiful girls...it seems like we need a LOT of stuff this year from there.
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Hoorah for Cardiff!
It seems there were several other cute fully nude ladies too last Sunday, as water was involved (at the Welsh Parliament?) people went paddling! Not sure if the two new girls paddling rode fully nude or took off their panties in case they got wet, not yet seen any pics to confirm this! Hopefully, more will come with time! Weather for London and Brighton getting worse, I'm afraid:mad::mad::mad::mad: London will again have the best day. If only Brighton had rode yesterday, as usual, the weather was perfect!!!! |
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Not to quibble with anybody's tastes/favorites, but I for one certainly wouldn't turn down more of these (or how 'bout the third uncensored?)...
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lovely riders from cardiff
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More Cardiff
The rather marvellous but elusive (they seek him here, they seek him there...) Mboko Mbebe was at Cardiff, I see.
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Ooh, good find, mraeneas! I like this lady:) From the radio, she is one of the stewards. I wonder is it the same girl who had a red back in 2013?
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Good to see Cardiff had a decent turnout, and some new faces.
Forecast looking pretty good as of this moment for Westminster (20C, sunny intervals). Brighton...a lot less good but the lack of sunshine usually means a better standard of images. It was a nightmare in the harsh midday sun at The Level last year. 2013 was the best one I've done, light wise. Ideally you'd have light cloud cover, no wind and very high temperatures, to ensure everyone has a dip in the fountain, extended rest stops and a long skinny dip on the beach. 2012 had about the worst conditions you're likely to experience in June in England. Max temperature of 12C, cool winds, heavy rain throughout the ride. But it was still a good turnout and the weather made for a much smaller number of idiots who get in your way :p Down side was much shorter rest stops at Hove Lawns and Old Steine, and very few bothered with the beach at the end. Temperature is the key. I think very humid conditions and rain would probably make for a very interesting event. Unfortunately we're not likely to get much in the way of heat down on the coast this Sunday, so we'll have to hope it at least isn't too windy or wet. |
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The allways grate SLZ
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That has to be one of the best WNBR photo sets EVER! Before/after body painting, posing with fat guys and playing in the water! Not to mention the close up handstand shots, can't remember the saving trick, but THEY ARE worth saving! |
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[QUOTE=leonidas22;2016175]The always great SLZ
Holy Mary MoG. SLZ, long a legend and now a demigod. Let's only hope this blanket coverage doesn't discourage next year's smaller, provincial rides. Great start to the season! |
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Alternatively, I highly recommend Bulk Image Downloader for saving entire Flickr galleries. It's not free, but it's cheap (I think like $25 USD), and you can grab a couple thousand images in one click instead of one at a time. Unfortunately, due to the new flickr format, it doesn't seem to grab albums as easily, but if you go to a users archives you can download all the event photos take on 6/7/15, for example, which does the trick. |
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This is awesome!!! Thank you for the info!!! |
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A Million Thanks! Fango |
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