M2 goes to the Tour de California Prologue

[RayPA]

Nice work Steve! You guys got the good weather for the race. LIke Kent, I wanted see the Sausalito to Santa Cruz stage (it was so close by) but the weather was not just too funky.

If you're interested in some photos and a video of "S-to-SC" stage, here's a link to about a dozen photos and a short video of the race as it blasted by on the Great Highway in San Francisco (photos and Video by Anna Conti and David Sumner posted in Anna's Flickr account.)

page 2 and page 3 and video
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[Bingley]

Thanks for the comments!

@Raymond -- The shots of Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer, and Floyd Landis were all pans. I pre-focused my lens on the spot where I wanted the actual shot, and then started panning when the rider first came into view, following him until he got to the spot.

@Ray -- Thanks for the links! There's also a flickr group now on the 2009 Tour. I'm sorry I wasn't able to see any of the other stages, but the weather turned pretty miserable last week (miserable, that is, from a cycling and spectating perspective).