Coca-Cola Classic Faces Day 4 (U16-19 GS)

Created 2-Sep-21

185 photos

This gallery contains selected faces of racers in Day 4 of the Coca-Cola Classic race series. It is one of several holding a selection of faces of racers on course, doing race things, and reacting (or not) to the course and events during the 2020-21 race season.

Not everyone is depicted, for various reasons, largely depending on image quality, but also on visible racer intensity and emotion. Some racers are very stoic and impassive on course, revealing little. And others show more intensity and concentration. And, unfairly, image quality sometimes depends on whether the camera focuses accurately when I press the shutter. Moreover, there are some racers depicted more than once per run. This wasn't a matter of favoritism, but photo quality: sometimes I was simply unable to decide which photo to use, and sometimes there were really nice (in my opinion) shots of racers in different positions (left-footed or right-footed, for example) and I decided to run both after fully editing.

The selections are also arbitrary in the sense I tried to pick the most expressive faces. That eliminated many faces hidden beneath masks, especially if goggles obscured their eyes. Since my purpose was showing faces, I decided it wouldn't be interesting to show faces that couldn't be seen. Next season, when no one is masked, we can perhaps repeat the exercise, and there can be a broader selection. So, if you were masked, please be patient. You did the right thing health-wise.

Most of these images are highly cropped, so large image displays will lose quality, despite best efforts to process the files to retain as much quality as possible. The weather was not ideal for racing or race photography. Just in case anyone is considering a purchase, I've restricted purchase options to relatively small prints and files. These would be okay 5x7s or 6x9s, and a very few could be larger, but not many. If you really, really want a larger face, email me and I can check to see what is possible.

I decided to create these "Face" galleries because I have recently been posting discussions on my blog site about racing and racing photography. And I realized blogging about racer faces could not adequately present enough images. That's when I began reviewing many of the 112,000-some race photos I took during this season.

As always, the main purpose is entertainment, not commerce. If you want to purchase, thank you, and I donate all sales proceeds to the Alyeska Ski Club junior program. But if you just want to look, that's fine, too. Thanks for visiting.