So they'll know and I won't forget . . .

[bacarver]

TE - Has anyone had professional quality photos or a video made of themselves as a way to remember the good times on the bike? As much as I want to believe that I'll ride till they put me in the ground, I know that this probably won't happen. I do have plans to hang my Trek from the ceiling at the nursing home.
There are times when I'm so happy during a ride that I want a way to hang onto the freedom, the fitness, and the joy of sailing past the world on my bike. I would love to have a video or pictures that I could always look at and recall my days on the roads.
Any ideas? -- Barb

[Mr. Bloom]

A friend of ours just had an awesome one taken by an Evansville photographer...we'll get the photographer's name for you.

If you're on Facebook, add us as a friend and then you can see it as his profile picture. If not, I'll PM you a link

[bacarver]

Mr. Silver -
Thanks for the reply. I'm not on facebook so I'll wait for the PM.
Barb

[shootingstar]

TE - Has anyone had professional quality photos or a video made of themselves as a way to remember the good times on the bike? As much as I want to believe that I'll ride till they put me in the ground, I know that this probably won't happen. I do have plans to hang my Trek from the ceiling at the nursing home.
There are times when I'm so happy during a ride that I want a way to hang onto the freedom, the fitness, and the joy of sailing past the world on my bike. I would love to have a video or pictures that I could always look at and recall my days on the roads.
Any ideas? -- Barb

Hopefully you will have especially videos of self cycling. Those can be the toughest to get. But make sure you get them.

What is abit heart-catching to me, is that that are hardly any photos of myself and dearie cycling together. Probably less than 10 photos out of several thousand cycling photos of one another by solo on bike or on bike trips since 1 person has to take the photo when no one else is around at the time. We have to literally pose-bike together for such opportunities.

Dearie and I have been filmed on video /tv for:

2005 -we were NOT aware we were being filmed for a promotional videclip about a bike route that was shot by the municipality. I was stunned to find it on the Internet by accident just a few months ago. The clip is still on the public website. Videographer had an aerial shot of us from a bridge/balcony somewhere where dearie and I were cycling along the route on a bright summer sunny day. When I first saw it, I nearly cried. After all, I'm seeing this for the first time in 2009.


2009- most recently he and I cycling with a few others, for news tv just a few weeks ago. Unfortunately we might have to buy a copy of the videoclip if we can't figure out how to download it for free. :(

There are several newspaper articles of him, also tv and radio clips on the internet of him..speaking on various cycling facility/project initiatives. This also I have collected bits..even he doesn't get around to keeping everything about himself. Even his children aren't aware of what he has all done...

[Mr. Bloom]

Here you go:

Andrew Wolfe Photography...our friend has become quite the celebrity among the tri team with this shot!

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa201/MrSilver1963/matt.jpg

[HoosierGiant]

Friends of ours run a video production company and created a DVD of my first RAIN ride (Ride Across INdiana) two years ago. They used our still photos taken during the ride and their video of the finish, set it to music, and made a wonderful keepsake. We had no idea they were doing this, and it's a cherished keepsake.

Their company also produced the video of a bike safety clinic I recently conducted for the local Girl Scouts. I'm not so enamored with that one, but that's because I don't like being in the spotlight.

[Possegal]

I make videos of my family and I riding. Though admittedly I have stills of me taken by others but video of us riding tend to be taken by me alone. I'll have to get someone to take some of me. I put the photos and video clips together using iMovie on my Mac and put it to music and make DVDs. It's a bit of a new obsession of mine. :)

Nothing compares to the awesome pro shot in the thread though - that is a really great picture!!

[Grog]

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa201/MrSilver1963/matt.jpg

Is that you, Mr. Silver?

:D

[Grog]

We also have countless individual photos of ourselves riding, but it's hard to get our photo taken together. We've got one from a bike tour where a professional was taking photos one day and then selling them a couple of days later during the tour. We will also get a couple from our trip in France because there were commercial photographers along the road leading to celebrity climbs at scenic spots. My husband was riding ahead of me, knew where the photographers were, and would come back and get me so that we could ride together in front of them. Now we need to retrieve the photos online (we got little cards with the photo # on them) and either buy the file or prints.

They're great keepsakes, and we like posting our adventure photos on the walls of our apartment. It's a source of inspiration for future trips!

[Mr. Bloom]

Is that you, Mr. Silver?

:D

Everytime I look in the mirror, that's what I see:D:D

[kenyonchris]

TE - Has anyone had professional quality photos or a video made of themselves as a way to remember the good times on the bike? As much as I want to believe that I'll ride till they put me in the ground, I know that this probably won't happen. I do have plans to hang my Trek from the ceiling at the nursing home.
There are times when I'm so happy during a ride that I want a way to hang onto the freedom, the fitness, and the joy of sailing past the world on my bike. I would love to have a video or pictures that I could always look at and recall my days on the roads.
Any ideas? -- Barb

For my SO's birthday, I wanted to give him something really special. I kidnapped his bike for the day and got a professional photographer to take some pics of it for me. And the photographer, not a cyclist, tried. But it just looked like pics of a bike. So I waited until the sun was right, hung a black sheet on my front room wall, and took some pics myself. They came out GREAT (my avatar photo is one...hard to see, but the stars go along with the "cosmic" tires). I did four in black and white, and my SO was moved to tears by it.
For him, his bike IS his days on the road.

[shootingstar]

They're great keepsakes, and we like posting our adventure photos on the walls of our apartment. It's a source of inspiration for future trips!

Those photos together on bikes will become quite precious and remain an inspiration throughout life.