Bike Week 2002, Part 5
From "HD Spokes", May 17th, 2002. More of the wet t-shirt contest. The contest was held in the burn-out pit.
Folks, I gotta admit it, I blew it. I'm usually privileged enough to have good access to most biker events in the Southeast. I get access backstage and such prior to and after events. That's usually real important because it allows me to 'set-up' for shots. I know what the field of girls looks like. One of the worst things that can happen is to run out of film at the wrong time. In the early 90's I carried 2 film SLR's and would load fresh 36 exposure rolls before things like a wet T-shirt event. In the mid 90's I started carrying 1 SLR and a digital(my first was a Sony Mavica 90 that recorded on floppy disc, boy, was that a piece of crap). By this time, 2002, I was carrying a film SLR and an Olympus E-10 digital SLR. The Olympus E-10 was a good camera but the buffer would only handle 4 pics while it was writing. And Olympus didn't make an external battery pack so it would sometimes take a few seconds for the battery to recover for the next flash.
Anyway, I had scanned the field of girls prior to the event and identified my primary points of interest. In hindsight I really blew it. For some reason I failed to recognize how pretty the brunette on the right in the first picture is. I think we, as men, pay too much attention to youth and blondes. I know I do. I got plenty of pictures of the 2 blondes. But I don't have any of the brunette as the primary point of interest. I'm sorry because, IMHO she's just flat out daggum pretty. I think you'll agree. She's not as young as the blondes but there'd not be any disgrace in taking her anywhere.
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