2005 LE TOUR DE FRANCE

    We are now live at the 2005 Le Tour de France.  After two days of travel and one day of resting and relaxing we are now at our first stage.  My goal is to show folks more than the few action shots for the race, one arms raised finish shot and a podium picture.  I want ya'll to experience the race from a spectators perspective.  From the set up done by the roadies, to the caravan, the behind the scene celebrity stuff and the post race teardown for the next day.  I will even throw in some shots of the drive between stages.

     I will be adding to this as regularly as possible but there are no promises.  I will not get it all done while trying to follow the race but I can at least post some highlights and a few thoughts.  Since I am playing the one man band as photographer, reporter and webmaster it can be difficult to get a lot done as the race happens.  Without the help of Carol staking out good photo locations, splitting the driving and keeping me fed I could not do this much.   When I return home I will post everything I experience and shoot so keep checking back.  In fact I am still working on adding to last years coverage of Le Tour as a major computer failure caused me to loose a bunch of my work and I am slowly having to rebuild it.

STAGE 9           STAGE 15

STAGE 10           STAGE 16

STAGE 11          STAGE 17

STAGE 12          STAGE 18

STAGE 13          STAGE 19

STAGE 14          STAGE 20