Velossimo Team Photo Shoot

From Plain-Jane's Travels

From Plain-Jane's Travels

I haven't taken many photos lately, but we did have a Velossimo Team Photo Shoot by Dave McLaughlin. The photos are amazing, and they show I have so much to learn about photography.

Tour of New Braunfels

Karl, from VMO

I crashed out of the road race at the Tour of New Braunfels with a few bruises and scrapes. My ego hurt more than anything else. I stuck around afterwards and got a few pictures of the team.

From VMO

From VMO

From VMO

Copperas Cove

I haven't been traveling much, so I've been able to spend weekends at cycling races. Still working on the action shots.

Velossimo Training Camp

From VMO

During the Velossimo team training camp in Fredericksburg, I got in an early morning ride and then spent some time in the P12 follow car. Pretty interesting experience - I learned a lot about cycling while practicing photography. I saw first hand that "It never gets easier, you just go faster."

Rhonda's Gargoyle

In a fit of rebelliousness, I decided to stay put in Austin over Christmas weekend. I'm glad I did - I was able to take some great shots of Rhonda getting inked.

East Austin

I'm back in Austin for a length of time, and I finally went around taking pictures of the graffiti and murals painted on the walls of the East Side. I like the character it gives to this part of town.

Narita Temple

Start of fire ceremony

I didn't pay attention to some of the itinerary changes to my flights, so I ended up with a 7 hour layover in Narita. When I called American Airlines to change it, the agent couldn't change the flights due to capacity. She did recommend a tour of the Narita Temple to pass the time. I sent a few emails to Narita Rainbow Tours and arranged the tour. (If you have a 4-5 hour layover, you can still do the tour.)

The Narita temple is one of the most popular Buddhist temples in Japan, and many Japanese continue to visit the temple today.

Main entrance. Rightmost one is for snakes. Recently constructed, built of a rare wood.

Water dragons protecting temple from lightning

Hot Dog plaque was donated by a Tokyo business a century ago

Previous main temple. Was moved 40 years ago as it did not meet fire code (replaced with concrete temple with ventilation)

Shinto shrine within temple complex. Named after landowner who donated the land.