Return to: 2007 Time Results
Notes about the images on the results page
Almost all of the images on the main "overall" results page are from the excellent and extensive photo gallery on the Villaines-la-Juhel web site. No photographer is indicated for the 750 photos from 2007. On the same site we find galleries from 1995, 1999 and 2003 with photos credited to Denis Transon. In the 2007 gallery we are probably looking at the work of the same photographer: similar style; the same obsession with recumbents and other special bikes; a high level of comfort with everyone at the control suggesting he is doing something familiar to all.
With so many photos, taken so often, the 2007 gallery is like a running portrait of the event as it passes through Villaines. Riders tended to flow through the control in roughly the order they finished, and this gave me the idea that the results list might be more interesting if faces were put to some of the names. In some of the Villaines photos we can see riders event ID numbers on their bike frame plates or helmets. I've linked to some of these photos.
I've only used photos that I think the subject would be happy with. I'm not always sure I've made the right identification - the numbers are often not easy to make out - and so I've made a few guesses. If I've made a mistake with you or someone you know, why not let me know about it and I'll correct the problem. Also, if you don't like the photo of yourself, I'll gladly remove it.
There are many great photos of riders in the Villaines gallery that don't have the rider ID numbers anywhere in sight. If there is a photo of you that could be included in this project, I would be happy to add it. And in fact it doesn't have to be a photo from Villaines - it just has to be from PBP 2007. I included one of my en route Maindru photos - you could too. Send me your PBP Photo! [October 2007]
Direct link to 2007
Villaines Gallery. (deframed)
Link to Main
Villaines Galleries Page.
Since writing the above, I've added many more photos and photo links. I've draw from the excellent galleries of Ivo Miesen and Gregg Bleakney. In deference to to photographers I have linked directly to their image postings, though in some cases where cropping was necessary I have copied the image and placed it on this site. Jean-Julien Kraemer and Christian Lauté, official PBP photographers, also took some excellent photos. Their photos that are in the slide shows on the la Web-tv site can be linked to directly, but most of their best images are in off-site picasa galleries. Unfortunately these image can not be linked to - or at least I can't figure out how to do this. All of these Kraemer and Lauté picasa photos have been borrowed, cropped and are now on this site. I hope they don't mind. Thanks to the many cyclist who have sent me their own (and friends) PBP photos. I continue to search through galleries for photos of other PBP 2007 finishers... [November 2007]
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