04 October 2012

30 DOPE ~ Day 4: Sour(puss)

Why yes, I did flip this post upside down. I have an excellent reason rooted in my acute sense of self-preservation. We'll leave it that, m'kay?

Some of you have wondered about the string of photos sitting on the bottom of my posts. When I first started this blog, I ended each post with "Peace." During the last six months of 2010 I participated in a weekly A-Z challenge. To make it more interesting, I committed to posting photos of things I saw in nature that looked like the letters of the alphabet. After posting A, I raised the stakes by posting a letter I found in the clouds. From this was born Deckside Font©. This simple collage has been my sign-off ever since.

P E A C E
Over the past few years I've photographed a number of road races. The expressions on runners' faces as they're approaching or crossing the finish line run the gamut from exhaustion to exhilaration. In the years I've been shooting runners I've never seen anything quite like this.

She ran a good race but had unreasonably high hopes of posting a personal best.

For more interpretations of Sour check out the photos posted by these other grumpy Guses.
Posted by Cheryl at 10/04/2012 04:00:00 AM
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35 comments:

  1. I love these 30 days of photos things...have to get caught up.

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  2. she's obviously not a happy camper!

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  3. And that's just one of the reasons I don't run!

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  4. Hah, that would be the look on my face if someone told me I actually had to run. I love the photo, Cheryl!

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  5. awww....i feel bad for her....i am glad she finished and that might be more than i can do...so....ha...that is some face...

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  6. Oh mannnn! She is gonna burst in to tears! What a great shot!

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  7. It feels so cathartic to look at these. Why is that??

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  8. Perfect expression. I guess she wasn't happy with her finish time.

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  9. That photo is cracking me the hell up! What an expression!! AHahHAhaHAhahaH! Awesome job!!

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  10. she really was unhappy. bless her... :)

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  12. Great shot- I'd just be happy finishing :)

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  13. Shoot! She should be happy - if I could run a race and finish, I'd be ecstatic! Love the photo!

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  14. This is why I posted the PEACE collage above her picture. I've met her a time or 2 at races since I'm good friends with a few people she knows. Since this automatically posts to FB through networked blogs, I didn't want her face to be the photo that appeared on my wall. Lemmetellya, I'm always thinking 3 steps ahead. Damn shame I never learned how to play chess.

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  15. Me too. The worst part about this is that she hasn't been running well and this was her best finishing time since April. She really was putting on a show for her parents who were just lovely.

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  16. Did I ask you about your cloud pictures? I know I was going to and then I didn't and now I can't remember if I changed my mind again, but I thought I didn't say anything and then you explain it today, so THANKS! Also? I couldn't run a race wearing that necklace, that would annoy me to no end, the constant slamming against my collar bone. A great shot for sour today!

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  19. That's a very funny, if sour, photo, and perfectly expresses my feelings about all forms of exercise. :)

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  20. Great image and love the ::snort::


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  21. Race? I think she's unhappy with her tattoo work. I would be.

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  23. Yep, she's sour. Must not be a PR.

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  24. I love this capture! She is a sourpuss all right!

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  25. another runner in the house. sweet, not sour. good job.

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  28. That is beyond fantastic! Her face - priceless!!

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  29. Her expression is really nice even though she was not happy. Nice moment!

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  30. LOL Love it! I just completed a 4 mile mud run this weekend and some of the faces in the pictures are priceless.

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  31. Poor gal....she looks so disappointed

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  32. That is one sour expression! Hopefully a good, stiff drink helped her mood. As for your sign-off symbol, your nature and cloud ABCs were some of my favorite reads. I can't figure our how to comment and link it back to my page. Let me know if I'm missing something. Hope your weekend is a fabulous one.

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  33. At this point, I'm not sure how you link back to your URL. It used to be easy but Disqus just rolled out a new release and it's different in many ways. I got a Disqus account a long time ago for ease of commenting on other blogs. I only put it on my own blog in April. With an account used for commenting, there was a tiny little link that read something like "Link to your URL or website" that you'd need to click and enter your blog's URL. That would stay functional until you deleted cookies and site plug-ins. Since I do that fairly regularly, I used to have to log back into Disqus & once again enter the URL. You could always open an account and try it out (or check out disqus.com help ~ which is usually not too helpful).

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  34. That is one sour expression! Hopefully a good, stiff drink helped her mood. As for your sign-off symbol, your nature and cloud ABCs were some of my favorite reads. I can't figure our how to comment and link it back to my page. Let me know if I'm missing something. Hope your weekend is a fabulous one.

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  35. Poor gal....she looks so disappointed

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