I posted some photos from the Zone Urban Epic (ZUE) Triathlon to MaineToday.com’s Seen photoblog.
Olympic triathlete Becky Lavelle, top honors elite women’s division, 2008 Zone Urban Epic
It turns out the MaineToday.com website is unbearably slow, so this may be my last posting to their website.
You can see more in the Zone Urban Epic photos by Eric Holsinger gallery on MaineToday.com.
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The TD Banknorth Beach to Beacon 10k was exciting with Duncan Kibet, of Kenya making a move to overtake the top three runners in the last leg of the race after entering Fort Williams Park.
Kenyan Evans Cheryiout leads the pack into Fort Williams, followed closely by John Yuda of Tanzania. Duncan Kibet, of Kenya waits to make the winning move behind Meb Keflezighi, of San Diego, California.
Duncan Kibet, of Kenya waits to make the winning move behind Meb Keflezighi, of San Diego, California.
I took a lot more photos of the runners and the crowd at the race today. The images are uploaded at MaineToday.com.
Normally I would heap all the images together in one gallery, but this time I separated them into different sub-galleries.
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I took photos of the 2007 Latino Soccer Tournament at Fitzpatrick Stadium in Portland, Maine.
This photo is of a little girl in traditional dress. She was with Nelida Berke, who organized the event. She looked so beautiful in the colorful dress.
The Latino Soccer Tournament has been held annually for the past 4 years, since 2004. The City of Portland’s Public Health program sponsors the event to promote health and disease prevention.
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On June 24th, I took photos of the 2007 Clifford Park Assault EFTA (Eastern Fat Tire Association) NECS (New England Championship Series) mountain bike race. The race is held at Clifford Park in Biddeford, Maine and is hosted by the Cape Able Bike Shop in Kennebunkport, Maine.
From what I hear, the Clifford Park Assault is a pretty rugged, grueling race. I found it to be really fun to take photos since I could run around and capture different parts of the race. But it’s pretty long, so I didn’t get to shoot photos of as many laps as I did at the Rotary Park Short Track in Biddeford, last year.
Here are some photos from the race.
That is Elizabeth Coleman, the 1st place rider in the Clifford Park Assault Expert Veteran Women category.
That is Michael Gault, the 1st place rider in the Clifford Park Assault Expert Senior I Men category. Michael was fun to shoot because he would do a little something extra each time I saw him, like that little jump on that downhill.
There are more photos available online at MaineToday.com in the Seen Photoblog called “2007 Clifford Park Assault“. Feel free to rate the photos there! 
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I took photos of the fireworks, the block party, the parade and the La Kermesse Festival in Biddeford, Maine.
I posted a couple 500 or so photos to MaineToday.com in the Seen Photobloggers page, here: La Kermesse photos by Eric Holsinger on MaineToday.com Seen.
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On Friday night, I took my family to see Freestyle Motocross at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, Maine.
I remember that there were a lot of kids at the Freestyle Motocross show at Oxford Plains Speedway. A lot of little kids were there.
The show was pretty dramatic, as all FMX shows must be. Unfortunately, Jason Rowe hit the front of the landing ramp and was out on the floor for a while. My son was initially unaffected by it, but as time went by with the paramedics working on him and preparing him to move, he got more and more upset. When everyone cheered for Jason and he gave us some devil horns back, my son broke out in panicked tears. We’ve talked about it a lot since. He doesn’t really dig noise from crowds anyway.
So, we hope Jason is OK and I posted some photos of the crowd in the MaineToday.com Seen photoblog.
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I went to Lost Valley Ski Area to see if the Mountain Dew Series would be happening. The snow was wasn’t good enough for racing today, but some guys were building up a snowboard jump when I got there. I took photos for MaineToday.com’s Seen photoblog for about three hours. I posted some of the better photos to my gallery page under “action“. All of the photos from today are posted on MaineToday.com, but the photos are only 800×600, there. The photos in my gallery are about 50% of the original size.
Some guys from Vertical Outlaws were there. I took some photos of them, from the stands, at the Boost/Rockstar Freestyle Motocross show at Oxford Plains Speedway, last year. Even though the weather was probably good enough to have the bikes out, they were hitting the slopes, today.
I also got to meet some of the guys from Team Snomad. I got some pretty cool photos of Brandon McLeod, Dustin Harley and Drew Stretton, today.
I didn’t get most of the names of the skiers and riders. If anyone wants me to put their name to their picture on MaineToday.com, just post a note below.
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I went to the 7th Annual North American Wife Carrying Championship at Sunday River Ski Resort, in Bethel, Maine. I shot photos of the event for the MaineToday.com Seen photoblog. I took my family with me and we had a blast.
First of all, the event itself is a riot. The race is a team sprint over a short obstacle course. The team consists of a man and a woman and one person carries the other. The man usually carries the woman, but I guess that is not required. The obstacles were a couple of logs and a water pit.
The prizes for the winners are pretty cool. You get your wife’s weight in beer, pepsi, granola bars etc. Plus, the winners got five times the wife’s weight in cash. I assume it’s in dollars not quarters or pennies or something. There is also up to $1000 allowance for travel to the international wife carrying championships.
The race is a spectacle, but it’s all part of a bigger Fall Festival. The day we were there, it was beautiful. The mountains were all in Autumn glory and the day was probably one of the last really warm days we’ll have this year. There were vendors, cookouts, and kids games sponsored by a local high school.
Allow for travel time
Unfortunately, I had also planned on shooting the Raging Bulls Championship play-offs at Fitzpatrick Stadium in Portland, Maine, the same day. I had not accounted for the amount of traffic that would be out “leaf peeping” on a Saturday. I should have known better, but I didn’t. Consequently, we got hung up in long lines of traffic on the way South and didn’t make it to the game.
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I stopped at Marginal Way Skate Park in Portland, Maine tonight before getting groceries. I got some photographs of some Freestyle BMX guys and some really exciting aggressive inline skating Rollerbladers.
I posted the pics of Marginal Way Skate Park to the MaineToday.com Seen photoblog.
Here are a couple of pictures, though.
Here is Ryan Strout, who is sponsored by ECS Hardware, showing some Mute Air. Ryan was getting some big air, I just wish the camera flash had filled him in more.
And here is Kent Dyer stalled on the fence above the quarter-pipe. He did this like 5 times so I could get the shot. This one came out great.
You can click the images for the fullsize version.
I hear Portland may be relocating the Skate Park to a new location. Wherever it goes, I hope there are no giant highway lightpoles in the background. Arrgh!
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Colleen Stone, at MaineToday.com, blogged about rugby and used one of my images from the Portland Rugby Club vs Springfield match.
Here is the link to about why Colleen Stone don’t play rugby.
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