Way back in July, I mentioned here that John hung the Caroline Yang photograph we had purchased, but I feel like I'd just sort of dropped her name as if everyone knows who she is. Caroline takes amazing photos and counts Sports Illustrated, cyclingnews.com, Cycle Sport, and the (St. Paul) Pioneer Press as some of her clients. She also does outrageously cool shots of speed skaters. To wit:
We first became familiar with Caroline last year when One on One Bike Gallery in Minneapolis put up a show of the photos that Caroline took at the 2005 Tour de France. My first impression was that she took wonderful candid photos of individual riders who often are swallowed by the peloton. We missed that show, but vowed that if Gene O. did another for the 2006 TdF, we'd make it over to the shop. Well, he did and so we went.
I've got to say, all the dopers featured in Caroline's photos raised my blood pressure—which is absolutely NOT a reflection on her work, merely commentary on the sad state of pro cycling. Imagine my delight, then, when John showed me this beaut, which embodies everything we hold dear about European stage races: peloton, fans, mountains. The photo had already been purchased so Caroline agreed to make another for us and have it framed before her baby was born (about a three week window).
The framed photo is enormous (at least 3 feet wide) and hangs in our studio—the room many would call the living room, but where John and I do most of our creative work. Since the wall is about 18 feet high, and because I took this photo at a crazy angle, the picture looks puny.
Here's another view of the Col du Tourmelet from Caroline's website. You know John Shepard dreams of climbing this mountain, dancing on the pedals all the way. The peloton beckons under a scene that is lucid and bright.
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