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Rapha Cityscopes

By Joe Hall • 15th May 2012 04:53pm • Posted in Events

Cityscopes - Photography Competition

The city can make for fascinating viewing. At times beautiful, ugly, seedy, sublime and ridiculous. Every street, building and person has a story. And this story is best discovered by bicycle.

The city rider's journey can be as perilous as it is rewarding but we all know those moments when the evening ride home gives you that scintillating feeling. A view across a bridge or down a tree-lined street, the twinkling lights at night or the morning mist lifting. The art of city riding is as visual as it is physical.

Over the next two weeks, we want you to stop (or not) and document the world you encounter whilst riding in the city. It might be the downtown skyline, a man walking his dog, chewing gum stains forming an effigy of Fausto Coppi or a freshly demolished tower block. Whatever the view, if you think it's worth capturing through a lens, take it. Then submit it to our Cityscopes photography competition. If you perceive it to have visual beauty, or to tell a story, we want to see it.

Simply post your photo on Twitter, Instagram, or Flickr along with the following hashtags:

#cityscopes, your #city or #town, and if you wish, #cycling

Example (by J. Dunn) :

Wentworth - 19.30hrs #cityscopes #portland #pdx #cycling

We will select a gallery of the best submissions and put them to the public vote. Prizes to be announced. Bonne route!

Comments

Jonathan Woodroof

16th May 2012 05:28pm

Boom! Lookin forward to the submissions on this. Photos whilst rolling in the city are my bread & butter!

Steve Caddy

17th May 2012 12:07pm

Can we submit existing shots or do they need to be taken during the two week period?

Joe Hall

17th May 2012 12:24pm

Submit whatever you like. Has to be vaguely in the 'street photography' genre…

Robert Sorenson

17th May 2012 12:45pm

This sounds interesting. I live in a medium city in Wisconsin. Big Cities and small towns should provide quite the mix

Gem Atkinson

17th May 2012 03:16pm

Tolmezzo, Italy - 20.00hrs #cityscopes #Tolmezzo #Italy #Dolomites #cycling > http://www.flickr.com/photos/gematkinson/7215553178/in/photostream

Steve Potts

17th May 2012 03:46pm

Central Hong Kong:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31218589@N07/2923510591/in/set-72157607844597694/

Nore bike

17th May 2012 05:32pm

Senayan Jakarta #cityscopes #jakarta #cycling http://yfrog.com/z/nye4ygzj cheers!

Stefan Rohner

17th May 2012 06:23pm

Erfoud, Morocco

#cityscopes #portland #http://www.flickr.com/photos/42743731@N00/4158065750/in/set-72157622425842613 #cycling

Stefan Rohner

17th May 2012 06:27pm

forgot to change the city name.. xx

Joe Hall

17th May 2012 06:28pm

Thanks Stefan, didn't think there was a Portland in Morocco.. : )

Joe Chester

17th May 2012 08:14pm

Vienna. #cityscopes #vienna #cycling

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joechester/7215164526/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joechester/7215213672/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joechester/7215210484/in/photostream

Joe Chester

17th May 2012 08:15pm

Sorry, I don't know why my comment appears 3 times!

Stefan Rohner

17th May 2012 09:15pm

Joe ;)

Paul Davy

17th May 2012 11:20pm

Manchester City Centre

#cityscopes, #Manchester, #cycling

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdavy/7218065534/

Manuel Acosta

19th May 2012 08:40am

Grant PetersEn of Rivendell Bicycle Works riding through the bike trails of Walnut Creek. Rest of the story can be found here.
http://flic.kr/p/bZWM8w

#cityscopes
#walnutCreek

Michael Holohan

19th May 2012 10:44am

http://www.flickr.com/photos/78893059@N04/7226017240/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78893059@N04/7226017240/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78893059@N04/7226013268/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78893059@N04/7226011802/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78893059@N04/7226009768/in/photostream/

Brisbane, Canberra, Paris, Lubeck

Michael Holohan

19th May 2012 10:47am

Paris pave
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78893059@N04/7226015122/in/photostream/

Andrew Williams

19th May 2012 11:41am

Sheffield
http://www.flickr.com/photos/noballgames/7220788588/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/noballgames/7221008690/

Andrew Bryan

20th May 2012 10:49am

Just wondering, do we post them here or on Twitter?

tim lesage

20th May 2012 11:47am

Café America-9.15hrs#cityscopes#Dikkebus(Ypres)#Belgium#cycling pic.twitter.com/wTppDFc6

Sebastian Nestler

21st May 2012 04:01pm

thirst quencher: http://bildraum.tumblr.com/post/22776318423 #cityscopes #villach #cycling

Nore bike

22nd May 2012 09:26am

another snap from my daily commute. for anybody wondering the pannier is for my laptop and suit for the office:

East jakarta #cityscopes #jakarta #cycling yfrog.com/gz4nzjjj

Edward de Carvalho

22nd May 2012 01:14pm

Hey Guys,

Here is my Flickr stream for the cityscopes competition

http://www.flickr.com/photos/78760479@N04/7214239240/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/78760479@N04/7214240220/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/78760479@N04/7214243176/in/photostream/

There are a few more there too!

#harbourbridge #cityscopes #sydney #cycling

Josey Santana

22nd May 2012 03:59pm

Just curious, Is there a cut off date yet?

Manuel Acosta

23rd May 2012 04:50am

Grant PetersEn.
Riding outside the shop of Rivendell located in Walnut Creek, Ca
#cityscopes #walnutcreek #cycling
http://flic.kr/p/brhHMf

Mathieu Jacobs

23rd May 2012 07:14am

see, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathieucag/ for recent shots in response to your "call for entries" for Cityscopes.

mjacobs@cag-resources.com

Mathieu Jacobs

23rd May 2012 06:13pm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathieucag/ Posted photos are from early AM ride for pastry/Java within the lovely city of Portland, Oregon…..

MJ

Manuel Acosta

24th May 2012 06:26am

A little project I've been working on. So far it has been a fun little project. Same picture, different story each time. Don't know if this can count for one picture. But every time I ride in the city I think about what's in front of me and I take a picture of it. Been working on this for 4 years.
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjtqKhQw

Noah Gage

29th May 2012 04:24pm

Please check out my set on flickr from riding around Chicago. Thanks.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/noahjgage/sets/72157629947013724/

Jong-chul Seo

4th June 2012 04:08pm

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