Donnie Smith Custom Bike Show pics

[juggler]

We went to the Donnie Smith Custom Bike show in St. Paul, MN on Saturday. There were a lot of nice customs there. Everything from complete ground up builds to nice custom paint on Harleys.

 

My wife took many photos and will be posting them to her photo blog over the next few days. She already put yesterday's and today's photos up.

 

http://elisabethviola.blogspot.com/2009/03/its-all-in-details.html

 

http://elisabethviola.blogspot.com/2009/03/pinkalicious.html

 

http://elisabethviola.blogspot.com/2009/04/forerunners.html

 

http://elisabethviola.blogspot.com/2009/04/riding-free-on-three.html

 

http://elisabethviola.blogspot.com/2009/04/tangerine-dream.html

 

Check back each day for more ...

Edited April 3, 2009 by juggler

[skydoc_17]

Hey Wil,

Where as I don't enjoy the level of enthusiasm as you do about "Pinkalicious" I did want to comment on your photo talents! I personally take a lot of "Snap Shots" and wanted to tell you that your photos are Excellent. I truly believe that Photography is an "art" and you my friend have "the gift"! Very Well Done!

Just my thoughts,

Earl

Pinkalicious

 

 

http://www.tigeress.net/pictures/blogpicts/blogpic84.jpgContinuing on from yesterday with the Donnie Smith Bike Show, this one is a real beauty. This is the best old school girlie bike I have ever seen! It would be perfect if it had pink sparkly laces coming out of the handle bars. If I rode bikes instead of trikes, I would definitely ride Pinkalicious!

 

 

http://www.tigeress.net/pictures/blogpicts/blogpic84example1.jpgHere's a close up of all those pink sparkles. I love the "diamond" studs in the seat.

 

 

 

 

Techie Corner

I purposely gave myself some challenges at this bike show. I used my 50mm lens (which is 75mm on my digital camera.) I also had to focus manually since this lens is kinda touchy.

 

The 75mm turned out to be more of a challenge than I thought. With so many bikes packed together and so many people crowded around them, it was hard to get back far enough to get a whole bike in the frame. I would have liked to get Pinkalicious' front tire in the shot, but that didn't work out.

 

I shot all of my bike show pics at F2.8, so there is some selective focus involved. But the faster lens did help out greatly since none of the pics were taken with flash.

 

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[juggler]

Hey Wil,

Where as I don't enjoy the level of enthusiasm as you do about "Pinkalicious" I did want to comment on your photo talents! I personally take a lot of "Snap Shots" and wanted to tell you that your photos are Excellent. I truly believe that Photography is an "art" and you my friend have "the gift"! Very Well Done!

Just my thoughts,

Earl

 

These are my wife's photos. She's a professional photographer.

[juggler]

A new day and new photos from the bike show.

[Lone Eagle]

?????????? - where the pics????????

[juggler]

?????????? - where the pics????????

 

Sorry, I figured people would follow the links in the first post.

 

Here are today's photos

 

http://elisabethviola.blogspot.com/2009/04/forerunners.html

[juggler]

I just added the last links for the bike show pics. Look in the first post of this thread to see all the links.