Anatomy Of A Photo: Looks Don’t Kill, Guns Do

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• @frank

  as did team mate Paul Kimmage

  http://www.independent.ie/sport/the-fatal-attraction-of-claveyrolat-26262128.html

• You know, when helmets and sunglasses became de rigeur in the peloton, something was lost in our ability to really connect. Look at Plankaert's face. That's a man whose gas light is flashing and his check engine light has just come on. And he's ignoring them both.

• @Tom Saccone

  @wiscot

  I was at the Worlds in 1988. I am an American and was racing with a small Belgian amateur team that season. I watched the race from about 100m from the finish.  The finish is still burned into my memory. I still race and manage a small amateur program where we revere the V and the awesome Belgian men!

  We need to hear more from you!

• @ped

  @wiscot

  You know, when helmets and sunglasses became de rigeur in the peloton, something was lost in our ability to really connect. Look at Plankaert's face. That's a man whose gas light is flashing and his check engine light has just come on. And he's ignoring them both.

  I had to put those two pics side by side to compare. Emotion, humanity, Kodachrome warmth. Corporate, digital, robots. Sure, it's partly nostalgia, but photographers definitely have a harder job capturing emotion under sunnies and helmets, and I expect contemporary riders aren't allowed to express much individual character anyway. 

• @wiscot

  You know, when helmets and sunglasses became de rigeur in the peloton, something was lost in our ability to really connect. Look at Plankaert's face. That's a man whose gas light is flashing and his check engine light has just come on. And he's ignoring them both.

  Very well said.  I think so much of that is connected to the sunglasses, and not being able to see in to the riders' eyes.

• @pistard

  @ped

  @wiscot

  You know, when helmets and sunglasses became de rigeur in the peloton, something was lost in our ability to really connect. Look at Plankaert's face. That's a man whose gas light is flashing and his check engine light has just come on. And he's ignoring them both.

  I had to put those two pics side by side to compare. Emotion, humanity, Kodachrome warmth. Corporate, digital, robots. Sure, it's partly nostalgia, but photographers definitely have a harder job capturing emotion under sunnies and helmets, and I expect contemporary riders aren't allowed to express much individual character anyway.

  Hmm.

• @The Grande Fondue

  @pistard

  @ped

  @wiscot

  You know, when helmets and sunglasses became de rigeur in the peloton, something was lost in our ability to really connect. Look at Plankaert's face. That's a man whose gas light is flashing and his check engine light has just come on. And he's ignoring them both.

  I had to put those two pics side by side to compare. Emotion, humanity, Kodachrome warmth. Corporate, digital, robots. Sure, it's partly nostalgia, but photographers definitely have a harder job capturing emotion under sunnies and helmets, and I expect contemporary riders aren't allowed to express much individual character anyway.

  Hmm.

  Touché, but I still think the eyes have it. I miss seeing the shift too:

• @The Grande Fondue

  That's a good image but still lacks a certain feel. That aside it was a great stage to watch at TDU. I am finding a fondness for the earliest races of the year. They seem to wet the whistle just in time for the classics.

• Richie does a good pain face, "I'm about to take a few big bites of the V, are you coming with me?"

  Cuddles has his tongue in cheek thing going one last time, Rohan Dennis seems pretty OK with the whole thing and everyone else just gritting the teeth.

  from http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/01/porte-climbs-to-stage-5-win-in-the-tour-down-under-dennis-retains-overall-lead/

• Porte has the Goldilocks Principle sorted at least. Dennis looks like he's off to school.

  And Cuddles needs to keep riding... those guns are going to waste.