WNBR 2011

[weshambler]

Great find, let's shed a bit of light on that...

[TheGreatBelow]

I was at the Portland WNBR. It was HUGE! I've been to to Burning Man and this was second to it in the amount of nude women. I estimate 2000+ nude riders.

It was dark and my camera was having a hard time focusing. So I was able to a few pictures. Also, a lot of other photogs were being hekled at the staging area. So it was not a camera freindly event.

Also Sara Underwood from Attack of the Show was filming there. I said Hi and she smiled and said hi back.

Here are a few pics I'll post more later...

[newbie66]

Originally Posted by weshambler

Great find, let's shed a bit of light on that...

Was so hoping she would be shaven!

[flanker7]

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Originally Posted by TheGreatBelow

I was at the Portland WNBR. It was HUGE! I've been to to Burning Man and this was second to it in the amount of nude women. I estimate 2000+ nude riders.

It was dark and my camera was having a hard time focusing. So I was able to a few pictures. Also, a lot of other photogs were being hekled at the staging area. So it was not a camera freindly event.

Also Sara Underwood from Attack of the Show was filming there. I said Hi and she smiled and said hi back.

Here are a few pics I'll post more later...

Thanks for the originals TGB and the info. It's worth saying again how fantastic it is to have riders share their own photos with us, instead of just finding pics on flickr.

Clearly the Portland ride is the biggest and best in the States and possibly the world (though numbers aside it's tough to beat London as it's a daytime ride). However your account hits on something that really frustrates me about this ride.

Despite the size, finding decent Portland pics is damn near impossible (and again, thanks so much for providing yours). Why is it that of all the WNBR participants world-wide only the Portlanders are so averse to photography? The Brits clearly don't mind it. The smaller American rides don't seem to mind it. Chicago and Philadelphia, the other "big" U.S. rides (though not nearly as big as Portland), deal with it just fine. Philadelphia produced thousands of great pics, and no one seemed to mind except for the whole Wild About Philly debacle, and that was only because they were weird about it. As I've pointed out previously, Chicago actually deploys official and semi-official photographers to make it a part of the experience.

As it says on the Chicago WNBR web site, don't ride if you absolutely can't stand the thought of being photographed. Or just make sure you obscure your identity enough so it won't be a liability. When you see the other rides, everyone seems to get that. Some of the participants paint their faces, some wear hats, and a few clearly self-conscious individuals put on masks. Easy enough.

After reading your account, and Klondike's previous accounts of this hostile attitude toward photographers, I can't help but wonder why the Portland rides are so different?

Also, on a related note, c'mon Sara Underwood. The entire world has seen your nude body. Pasties and bikini bottoms aren't going to cut it when you're surrounded by thousands of naked people. I assume they went with that so they wouldn't have to blur it out in the video (I believe pasties are allowed for basic cable in the US). But at some point get your kit off! Anything else just seems lame.

[Ricardo Montalban]

Breaking my self-imposed silence...

Portland, as many of OCC's Portlanders will attest, is an odd town. We love our WNBR, but hate photos. What gives?

As a general rule, Portlanders are uninhibited. I mean, for Christ's sake, we have a gay pedophile mayor who admitted to making out with a 17 year old boy, but is still pretty popular. And, as a general rule, we like to get naked. I mean, for Christ's sake, we have the biggest WNBR in the effing world, and we are responsible for 75% of the nudity at Breitenbush, Rooster Rock, Oregon Country Fair etc. But we are not exhibitionists in a pure sense. We love brazen nudity, but we love anonymity. We fiercely guard our right to have mass nude events, but we fiercely enforce photography rules. What's up with us?

Just initiating a conversation. And shamelessly bumping this thread. I need to see more WNBR pics! This is my favorite time of the year! And this year has had some fabulous photography! More! More! More!

-rm

[nives76]

Originally Posted by Pedro the Fisherman

Great video of the Maddison ride from last Saturday! A real keeper!

hxxp://vimeo.com/25330623

Some screenshots from this video...

[spaceman1977]

voyeurweb.com/contris/WhatISaw/ws201106/20110613-173993/index.html

[jacobite]

Originally Posted by weshambler

Great find, let's shed a bit of light on that...

Here's a frontal pic!
If you look very closely, that 'line' appears!
(Love her sandals too...)

[babydoll]

nice, love that one!

[flanker7]

Originally Posted by Ricardo Montalban

Breaking my self-imposed silence...

Portland, as many of OCC's Portlanders will attest, is an odd town. We love our WNBR, but hate photos. What gives?

As a general rule, Portlanders are uninhibited. I mean, for Christ's sake, we have a gay pedophile mayor who admitted to making out with a 17 year old boy, but is still pretty popular. And, as a general rule, we like to get naked. I mean, for Christ's sake, we have the biggest WNBR in the effing world, and we are responsible for 75% of the nudity at Breitenbush, Rooster Rock, Oregon Country Fair etc. But we are not exhibitionists in a pure sense. We love brazen nudity, but we love anonymity. We fiercely guard our right to have mass nude events, but we fiercely enforce photography rules. What's up with us?

Just initiating a conversation. And shamelessly bumping this thread. I need to see more WNBR pics! This is my favorite time of the year! And this year has had some fabulous photography! More! More! More!

-rm

Thanks Ricardo. I do understand it's something along those lines. It just seems a little bit counter-intuitive and contradictory to me, to be simultaneously both uninhibited and zealously protective. Obviously though they have the right to shape their own subculture. But I have the right to complain about it!