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

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• @pistard

  @The Grande Fondue

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

  Oh, it's on.

  (Ignoring for the moment that J-Rod always takes his glasses off...)

• Do you think anyone had the nerve to give it to Moser about the length of his shorts? A little playful ribbing at the start line.

• Suffering face, Andrew Talansky - Il Lombardia 2012

• Thought these worth posting......different weather for Spring Classics

• Moser will be wearing wool shorts which rode up no matter how much you didn't want them to.

• @Pedale.Forchetta

  Dick face, Andrew Talansky - Il Lombardia 2012

  Fixed your post.

• @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.

  He gives good pain face, but I see your glasses covered pain face and raise you a stage 5 TdF.

  http://images.cyclingtips.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014-Tour-de-France-Stage-5-16.jpg

• Here's another set of images from this year's Tour, Stage 5. Sunnies off and you can really read the effort and emotion.

  http://www.steephill.tv/2014/tour-de-france/photos/stage-05/#294-IMG_0341.jpg

• @brett

  Ahah! Yeah it could be!

  Actually I hope to have the chance to take some photos of Richie Porte at the next Giro.

• Speaking of spring classics and snapshots... my favorite from last year. SPRING CLASSICS ARE FOR BADASSES. I love this one:

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