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Bike Race - Distant View

You'll have to look a little carefully to see the peleton of riders crossing the dam at the far end of the lake. The subjects are about 1.5 miles away from me.

I'm standing next to part of the race course, but looking across to the other side of the lake around which the course winds. The whole race couse was about 8 miles long.

ISO 400, 200mm (320mm equiv.), 1/1000sec at f10.


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