NYC Marathon

First: My street.

And now for the main event. Today I ventured down to Central Park for the ING New York City Marathon. It was great! The lighting and angles were tricky, as I was going from shooting objects 50 meters away to 5 meters away, but I couldn't give up the great back drop of the shot. Here's what I was dealing with:

There was great "dappled" light, as they say, but I was constantly adjusting my f-stops and EV comp just to deal with the rising sunlight. I kept blowing out my pictures (and hey, I'm a little rusty here! Read the last post and you'll mebbe understand. Cut me some slack) and all you could see was white.

  

I snuck onto the course before the closed it down and snapped a few shots. The grandstand in the back is the finish line. As you can see, the early morning runners were getting their fix before the pros rolled on through. Next year I have to remember to bring my boxing gloves and "Eye of the Tiger" mix tape and run up and down the last 400 yards before I'm kicked off to make up for those 364 days of non training I have to endure.

I also snapped this picture of the mounted horse patrol getting ready before the race.

It's fall in NYC. And now onto the race photos. As I mentioned, the light and depth were messing with my mind and I am a little out of practice, so I didn't very good shots of the winners of each category. The following are my favorite pictures from the day (note: I shot nearly 600 frames today and came away with only 12 or so).

 

Those are the wheelchairs and the hand bikes.

Does anyone else besides me see the comedy in the name of the runner in blue? His last name is AWOL and he's running (presumably away from something).

And finally, possibly the best frame I shot all day.