Coca-Cola Classic Faces Day 2 (U12-14 SL)

Created 16-Aug-21

149 photos

It is August 24, 2021 and I am just now uploading to this gallery.

This gallery is one of several that will hold 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.

This gallery contains selected faces of racers in Day 2 of the Coca-Cola Classic race series. 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. As it happens, there are two versions of an image file for one racer (Alexandra VWG) because I wanted to experiment with a Black and White rendering while trying to emulate the image style of a great modern portrait photographer, Platon. Image No. 12 is the B&W version.

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 many 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 my best (and often repeated) efforts to process the files to retain as much quality as possible. The weather for both days for the U12s and U14s 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 was 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 race photos I took during this season.

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