Carson Blume Photography

SF to BC via HWY1

2011-06-27T09:48:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, I am planing a trip from SF to BC via HWY1 and need suggestions for Mountain bike rides, places to see ect. Also might head back via Bend, OR!

Chickens at Play

2009-01-25T14:09:00.001-08:00

I went down to Carson, CA (haha) to do the Long Beach Crit, that's right, I raced! Its been awhile but I felt fit and even got 5 best all around rider point on a 1k flyer.

Here are the shots of my Chicken Ranch team mates.

All images can be found here

Velo Bella Training Camp

2009-01-22T11:26:00.000-08:00

I had a wonderful time hanging out with the Velo Bella girls last weekend.

Top of Prefumo Canyon Road

Marian Hunting during crit practice

Everyone listeing to Michael Hernandez's (NorCal Cycling News) words of wisdom

The Bella's rollin'

All images available here

Bella's

2009-01-21T09:45:00.000-08:00

2009 Velo Bella Training Camp in San Luis Obispo, Descending Prefumo Canyon Road

Some big red S work

2009-01-13T22:57:00.001-08:00

I liked this shoot, a lot! Great people, good light, good weather!

Paul Sadoff @ Rock Lobster Cycles

2009-01-12T12:00:00.000-08:00

http://www.rocklobstercycles.com/

http://rocklobstershop.blogspot.com/

Tim Johnson

2009-01-12T11:43:00.001-08:00

I got to do a really quick photo shoot with Tim Johnson of Ouch Cycling yesterday, super nice guy!

Gibraltar Hill Climb

2009-01-12T09:58:00.000-08:00

The Gibraltar Hill Climb is a memorial for Kendra Payne, A 21-year-old UCSB triathlete that killed when she was hit by
truck while riding her bicycle on Gibraltar in 2006.

Ok props to this guy, his peddle broke or something so he rode up barefoot!

And props to this guy too, his chain broke, so he ran barefoot 3 miles got is fixie.

Miss Susie Willett

Platinum out looking hot

And my team, Team Chicken Ranch

Thats right, they went up on a tandem!

Thats right, Aaron rocking the FRS!

(OMS) Old Man Steve is my hero

UP up and away!

Hey Randall, I think that's cheating!

Burn

Tea Fire Burn area

Images Here

Results HERE

New Frame, The Pain Wagon, from Rock Lobster

2008-12-27T22:30:00.001-08:00

So I decided that cycling just doesn't hurt quite enough, actually cyclocross. So I had Paul over at Rock Lobster in Santa Cruz build me a Single Speed Cyclocross frame. I do hate it when I drop my chain or just having to deal with silly gears, plus I am a runner, who needs gears in a hour long race anyway.

Speaking of chains, this bike won’t have one, it will be running the Gates Carbon Belt Drive system.I rode a spot carbon belt drive bike at the outdoor demo at Interbike and really liked it, so Paul had the great idea to modify Paul (different Paul) Components dropouts (pictured above) so the belt drive systems could be utilized.

To keep the bike clean the back brake cable is routed threw the top tube and out the seat stay, kinda slick.

To further clean up the frame I did request the integrated seat mast that seams to be all the rage lately.

Not much to say about this image I just like it. So it off to Spectrum Powder Works for a sick paint job, any guesses on the color?

Interbike EXPO

2008-09-24T15:21:00.000-07:00

Chrome Bags had some Local SF artist do some work on their bags, pretty cool.

Always fun at the SRAM Booth

Crazy Camp 11 Speed Display

Zero Waste Bags

Had to shoot it

The coolest thing of the show for me is very simple, internally threaded carbon steer tube!

Interbike outdoor demo (what I am liking)

2008-09-23T15:10:00.001-07:00

Style

Speed, I will be picking one of these up!

Carbon Belt Drive for my SSCX???

Sighting

I want to ride this and own it!

Cool, midend commuter stuff

Its about time

StarCrossed - Seattle (no words)

2008-09-22T21:04:00.001-07:00

Tour of Missouri, Stage 7

2008-09-14T17:54:00.001-07:00

Mark Cavendish (Team Columbia)

Start

Mike Sayers (Team BMC) We will miss you

Out for most of the time, Jeremy Powers (Jelly Belly) and Tim Johnson (Health Net) ! It was really windy too

Zabriskie

wosh

Arch

Tour of Missouri, Stage 6

2008-09-13T17:11:00.000-07:00

Ivan Dominguez (Toyota United) second on the day

The turnout is amazing here!

Gu and The Great Chiweenie to the rescue!

Teach them young

Mark Cavendish (Columbia)

Great, now I am Neils partner in crime

2008-09-12T19:04:00.001-07:00

Tour of Missouri, Stage 5 (no words)

2008-09-12T18:28:00.000-07:00

Images from today here

Tour of Missouri, Stage 4 (quotes)

2008-09-11T18:53:00.001-07:00

Ok, so I am going to try and think of cool quotes to go with the images today.

Paul Smecker: Fan-frigging-tastic.

Alfred Pennyworth: Why do we fall, sir? So that we might learn to pick ourselves up.

"Patriotism is supporting your country always and supporting your government when it deserves it. -Barack Obama "

Mahina: You know, I also have killed a lion.
Angus Starling: How many shots did you need?
Mahina: I used my hands.

Mike Sayers

IMAGES FOR THE DAY

Tour of Missouri, Stage 3

2008-09-10T15:39:00.001-07:00

Today we Time Trial, well they Time Trial I take Pics

Warming up

This is the coolest thing, they use the trucks to separate the freeway from the riders

Ouch

Jeff

Tour of Missouri, Stage 2

2008-09-09T17:06:00.000-07:00

I saw two things for the first time the second I got off the plane last night.

I am guessing for diabetes, anyone?

and this is kinda scary, when I mentioned it to someone there were like, well you have earthquakes in California, I reminded him that we have one worth mentioning every 10 years.

So it has been a rocky start for me at the Tour of Missouri. Threw no fault of my own I did not make my flight to Kansas City on Sunday night so I am a day late. Plus no Moto today but I did get a call from Velo News and they are running the shot of Carl Decker from the Single Speed World Championships so that was nice.

NOW FOR THE RACE

So bad, Neil is fating him up for Thanksgiving

They love Brad

The start, look closely for the American Flag

The kids here love this! Maybe they will grow up and not hit me with their cars?

Mark Cavendish (Team Columbia) two wins in a row

A really nice turnout, it is really pretty here I can't wait to get out on the Moto into the countryside and do it some justice.

guns and alcohol don't mix

Link to the Gallery for Stage 2

www.carsonblume.com

SSWC - 2008 Single Speed World Championships, Napa, CA

2008-08-25T19:43:00.000-07:00

Could it really be this simple? YES!

I had to get one!

Throwback! Hometown, I tried to by it off her, but no deal.

Carl Decker

Rachel Lloyd

OUCH!

and ouch!

crazes

To Fun!

My buddy Steve Tam, Represent Redding!

Curtis Ingles put on one hell of an event!

My select images can be seen HERE

All images can be seen and purchased HERE

My website is HERE

Tour of Utah, Stage 5, Time Trial

2008-08-17T14:51:00.000-07:00

Hometown boy (Santa Barbara) Cody Oriley riding for Successful Living leaving it out on the TT course!

There definitely was some agony out there on the Henry Miller MotorSports Raceway.

Jeff Louder wins the Tour of Utah!

On his BMC Time Machine.

As did the whole BMC Team win the Tour of Utah!

Tour of Utah, Stage 4

2008-08-16T16:49:00.001-07:00

Todays stage was epic, the first climb reminds me of an alpine stage in Europe! We climbed right by Sundance, past Mount Timpanogos (pictured bellow) and threw Wasatch Mountain State Park. Rock Racing's Michael Creed, went over the top solo.

There were fans on the climb.

Michael Creed was caught bye the group :(

Garmin Chipotle's Blake Caldwell remains in yellow

BMC's Jeff Louder wins the day!

Tour of Utah, Stage 3

2008-08-15T21:56:00.001-07:00

Hey kid there is a race going on!

ROCK IT!

I am tired, we are staying at snowbird at 8500' and it wears on you, so you just get pretty pictures tonight, and....

Our local boy Cody O'riley, helped out his Successful Living teammate Ricardo Escuela to the victory, Cody got 10th!

Tour of Utah, Stage 2

2008-08-14T16:57:00.000-07:00

I heard that Scott Nydam went down around mile 44 and broke is collar bone. I wish him well.

There was a lot of climbing, and descending today. At one point there there was 4 miles of 10%, in total ther was 10,585' of climbing in 85 miles, and Saturday is harder!

Teach them young!

Blake Caldwell of Garmin/Chipotle and Darren Lill of BMC Soloed to the finish and....

Blake Caldwell takes the stage and GC by 4 seconds.

Tour of Utah, Stage 1

2008-08-13T19:51:00.000-07:00

Today at the Tour of Utah there way farms, lots of farms, there was a lot of climbing but it was spread out over a long stage and there was not a lot of major climbs.

Races do not happing with out the moto guys!

Not so little red tractor on the farm.

After 100ish mile break away.....

Jason Donald of Garmin/Chipotle won!

I have arrived! Tour of Utah here I come! & Canon v Nikon

2008-08-12T10:08:00.001-07:00

So after a hectic day yesterday of; taking my car to get the oil changed and finding out I had a broken axel ( I thought it was a CV joint), having to scramble to get a flight to Salt Lake City, trying to pick up my camera body from repair, it not being ready, my brand new flash pooping out on me and having to send that in for repair and TRADING IN ALL MY CANON GEAR FOR NIKON GEAR, I am the hopefully new owner of a D3! Basically I just got sick and tired of my Canon stuff alway needing repair, I am not saying yet that Nikon will be better buy its worth a try. I am a huge fan of the file quality of the D3. and there are a lot of things that I will review later on, but for now I am just going to take everything as it comes, there are some things I am loosing as well. Check back for race reports and Images!

Metro Mint Women

2008-07-14T01:40:00.000-07:00

You gals put up a hell of a race!

PICS HERE

Cascade Cycling Classic, Stage 6

2008-07-13T21:11:00.000-07:00

So luckily my Moto Driver (Dave) is a high school photography teacher and had a camera for me to use today. It figures that the first time I do not bring a spare body my body breaks! So I owe him one! Check out his site good work there.

Our boy Chris Jones putting the hurt down for his boys!

Aaron Olson put some hurt down as well, but for some reason I did not get many images of him, but pick up ROAD to see some good shots of him in the next issue.

Todays course was fun!

Davina Summers was a wonderful 14th on the day!

And guess who won!

Just another day with the family!

RESULTS

FINAL DAYS PICS

My view

2008-07-12T20:24:00.001-07:00

I took this on the way back from the finish today with my iPhone. Thats my gaffers tape on the back of his helmet!

Cascade Cycling Classic, Stage 5

2008-07-12T20:07:00.000-07:00

Today we climbed, to near the treeline on Mount Bachelor!

And passed some really cool looking places.

With some pretty cool fans!

But the coolest thing ever was Chris Horner carrying an injured comrade after a crash and a broken bike to the finish on his own bike!

I know what you are thinking, what the hell is with that image of Horner? Well today after 3 years of faithful service my shutter blew up.

Moises Aldape of Team Type 1 took the stage and Levi holds on to yellow.

Davina Summers, finished up the day in good standing and in the last 1k caught the group in front of her and passed all but one of them (her teammate, good form) before the line. She is ready to rock tomorrows stage!

PICTURES THUS FAR

RESULTS

Cascade Cycling Classic, Stage 3, TT+Crit

2008-07-11T23:39:00.000-07:00

So this is going to be shot and sweet since it was a crazy long day.

Levi laid down a crazy fast 14 mile time trial to putting him in the lead, he bested Jeff Louders time by 1:15.

When I arrived at the Crit a masters rider from VOS was down with a most likely broken femur.

Davina Summers, stayed out of trouble in the crit and finished with the pack, even better she was 15th in the TT.

Toyota United really controled the Mens Pro Crit and...

Dominique Rollin Won!

TT PICS
CRIT PICS

RESULTS

Cascade Cycling Classic, Stage 2 Report

2008-07-10T19:09:00.001-07:00

So I do not have a bunch to report today as I was out of the radio loop on the Moto today, but Matt Wilson of Team Type 1 (the same team as Chris Jones) dedicated his win to Ben Brooks his team mate that went down really hard yesterday. Today was much cooler and around a 10K hill top finish.

Some of the Metro Mint Girls

My Ride! Its Orange!

The Broom, help keeping cyclist upright!

Mountains
!
Davina Summers being playful as usual, I personally do think she is riding hard enough, I mean this is in the last 10k, but really she put in a hell of a stage today.

Humm, a sprinter that can climb well, yes, its dangerous.

I just have to give a shout out to Toyota for thinking of the environment, and its nice be breath air not exhaust while racing, or taking pictures!

Matt Wilson of Team Type 1

Just a little windy

O yeah Oregon Rocks!

MORE PICS

RESULTS

Cascade Cycling Classic, Stage 1 Report

2008-07-09T22:36:00.000-07:00

I am going to try my hand at loosely reporting the race so bear with me!

So today's stage started out very aggressive with Slipstreams Cozza and a Successful living rider attacking right out of the gate, they held off the group for quite some time.

Once they got caught it was just attack after attack by what seamed to be everyone. Then a solid 12 man break formedwith our very own Chris Jones (Redding peeps), Chris did his fare share of work and managed to get second at the KOM and 4th on the day!

After the KOM on the decent there was a nasty crash on involving a cattle guard and Ben Brooks, he was hurt pretty badly, his fork was broke and he was not moving, but all reports for the hospital say he is in stable condition. Ben is a Team Type 1 team mate of Chris Jones, and a Australian coincidentally, I gave an Australian a ride to this years CCC.
Davina Summers is a delightful Aussi riding for Metro Mint, that I met threw Lindsay Myers who I met threw our very own David Albrecht, she fancies herself a sprinter but she seams to get over the hills quite nicely as well, check out her blog at, http://davinasummers.blogspot.com/

The winner on the day who accidentally flew into North Bend, about 5 hours away by Taxi was Rock Racing's Santiago Botero of Columbia, and Levi managed to bridge up a 45 second gap in the last 5k from what I could gather solo to take 5th, that's right Chris, you beat Levi!

STAGE 1 PHOTOS HERE (flash, sorry iPhone'ers)

RESULTS HERE

Where the hell to live?

2008-01-05T19:00:00.000-08:00

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Portland Again! USGP Cyclocross

2007-12-03T19:37:00.000-08:00

So it rained, AND THERE WAS MUD! This is so exciting someone that lives in SoCal that has not seen mud in a few years.

MUD!

RAIN! Lots of rain, and wind!

Yummy Chris King Food!

And Rain!

And Mud!

O yeah and a Portable Hot tub?!?!

Yeah He won
There he is again

SO FUN!

AND FUN MUD!

North Face Endurance Challenge (Marin)

2007-12-03T13:10:00.000-08:00

This was an interesting race, pre dawn start, 50miles, and amazing views, but the runners were really hard to find and the course map was good but the area was really hard to get around. To make things harder the first spot that I was going to shoot, I ended up missing the runners cause some of them got off course and got there to early, so I was really confused.

The views were amazing!

I got to meet Dave Clifford, he used to be the Photo Editor at Trail Runner Mag!

And its shots like this one that make me wish I was running in the race, but I did get my fare share of running in!

Images Here

SSCXWC: SO FUN!

2007-11-13T10:58:00.001-08:00

Sometimes there are events that you go to that are just so much fun that you can't help help but want to tell everyone you know about it, so I am.

Pure fun and tons of energy is the best and simplest ways to describe the race but there is much more to it than that. Team BEER! would shout out, "BEER!" ever time anyone said anything, people wore the coolest strangest outfits that you could think of, there was no real uptight competitiveness, everyone; racers, spectators, promoters were all laid back and nice. There was even a short cut on the course that you could take, but there was a catch, you had to take a shot of tequila, patron if you had river city bikes anywhere on your person, but if you didn't you got cuervo.

Waffles & Cross!

Barry Wicks!

Wendy Williams

Images are HERE

Convert SoCal Cross

2007-11-05T18:44:00.000-08:00

The pics from the SoCal Cross Series are up! HERE

SSWC 08'

2007-11-02T20:43:00.001-07:00

This brings joy to my heart! It looks like the Single Speed World Championships are going to be in Napa this year!. I am quite fond of napa, I started (like many) riding with my dad on Mt Tam and all threw high school one of my favorite races was the Napa Valley World Cup, especially when it was at Skyline Park and all muddy. So you will see me there, hopefully racing and shooting!

[SSWC08]

This is awesome!

2007-10-29T12:54:00.001-07:00

So Sad

2007-10-27T21:39:00.000-07:00

-Mario Anzuoni, Reuters

Tattoo

2007-10-27T17:12:00.000-07:00

I think I am going to get this on my calf!

My cat loves me

2007-10-27T17:07:00.000-07:00

His name is Hobbes.

New Single Speed, Garmin Edge, Motion Based, Spill, Zone

2007-07-14T10:31:00.000-07:00

So I found a Single Speed on Craigslist and it is perfect, an ORANGE Ibis, with a 32x18 so I can spin my legs and not hurt my knee. No lockout on the fork but I will live for now, it was $300 and ready to ride so it was a hell of a deal.

I am so out of shape 20+lbs and I can't stay under my AT to save my life, so I have a long way to go. I got a Garmin Edge 305 . This is a great little device, I have been waiting for this since I had a speclized pBrain back in high school. It gathers so much data and you can overlay your route on google maps or earth. Since I am a MAC user I also signed up for motionbased.com which is a web based data service so I can store and analyze all my training data. You can see my ride HERE.

I had a bit of a spill, but it felt good!

The only saving grace to my fitness is, THE ZONE. I started this way to eat, I hate calling it a diet cause its way lifestyle not a temporery way to lose weight. I have lost 20LBS with out exercise and I feel so much better in everyday life.

Shooting the new Transition Pro from SPECIALIZED

2007-07-03T09:03:00.000-07:00

Last month I got to go up to Morgen Hill, CA and Shoot the New Transition Pro from SPECIALIZED. It was quite a plesure of a shoot, a nice cool crisp morning and all the casting was done for me.

Erick Marcheschi from SPECIALIZED got a employ to model and used a local Triathlon to set up the shot. I was a little nervous not knowing the location or seeing the model but it all came together well.

Everyone wants me to pan! But its ok I like it.

Thats Erick Holding the light.

I wish I was out riding on a nice Bay Area day. This bike looks fast just sitting in the rack and even faster on the road.

Shade the Flare!

Give him Props, that pavement was Gravely

I can't kneel, so I sit. Thank you Marry Boone!

Thank you SPECIALIZED and Thank you Erick for making my shoot a pleasure.

You can check out SPECIALIZED's new Transition Pro at http://www.specialized.com

You can check me out at http://www.carsonblume.com

Carson vs The Land Rover

2007-06-03T09:54:00.001-07:00

This Blog is to keep everyone updated on my court case that is finaly happing over the next few weeks.

Ironically this Image was taken 2 weeks before I got hit

WOW, hummm, where to start.

The incident was here in Santa Barbara on July, 13, 2005 at around 1330. I was leaving class at Brooks and I made a right turn from one road ( Alston ) on to another ( Hot Springs) which is downhill. I rode about 150 meters and a Land Rover hit me head on at about 40mph, I was going about 20mph. It happened so fast that the only reaction that I could muster was to sprint finish my bike into SUV. In doing this my right hand and right knee were leading into the SUV so they caught the brunt of the impact. I shattered my right patella, I also broke a bunch of bones in my right hand, wrist and arm. So after impact I was thrust into the air and rotated head over feet three times threw the trees that were above me. The person in the car behind me kids thought I was falling out of the tree I was so high. I landed with my butt against the drivers front tire with my lower back under the bumper, I was lucky I didn't get ran over.

I was rushed off to the hospital and my bike was rushed to Fastrack Dave Lettieri shop here in Santa Barbara. I was able to be fixed with some screws, wire and stitches, my Cannondale R3000 was not so lucky. the top tube and head tube were completely detached from the bike and the wheels were tacoed. My helmet ( A Giro Pneumo saved my brain I am sure, it was cracked everywhere. Ironically enough all the filler pictures in the Bell Helmet catalog ( the partner to Giro ) are my shots and since they share a building I got to thank them. On a side note look out for a new helmet from Specialized next year to help save you head.

The hospital was an "interesting" experience. My health insurance ran out two weeks before I got hit and I had my FedEx envelope with my new insurance paperwork in my Timbuk2 bag that I was going to drop of on my way home. So it seamed like I wasn't assigned an actual doctor and I got the nurse from hell at one point. I could not get a straight answer from anyone about my fingers. Less than 24 hours after impact this crazy nurse took away my pain killers, threw some ice on my knee, gave me some anti inflammatories and said that should do it. It was the most painful 12 hours of my life, lucky the night nurse came in and said she was crazy and gave my back my button. Getting mobile to leave the hospital was no fun, any movement of the muscle on the quad made my knee hurt so bad I couldn't stand it. They made some kind of walker with an arm rest in it cause my right arm was in a cast, but that didn't work very well cause my arm was broke so if you put any weight on it, it hurt a lot.

As far as how I am doing, I couldn't get physical therapy for enough time to make any progress. I tried to get back on the bike but it required heavy amounts of Ibuprofen and Vicodin and I didn't like how I was feeling and wasn't sure if it was doing more harm than good. Same with the gym, walking and even swimming hurts, basically extension of the knee under load hurts, I did do some swimming with just my upper body and I am hoping to do more swimming this summer. Another issue is with my hand, holding the camera for any amount of time make it hurt, the same with riding.

So what happened in court today was nothing. The other sides attorney was not prepared, did not file his motions in time for my lawyers to see them before today, so the Judge let the motions in which I understand is not allowed, but she gave my lawers till Wednesday to respond and then we start to do jury selection. They admitted liability cause if they didn't we could drag in her psychologist and her prior DUI into the case. One of the motions was to get the helmet and the bike omitted from evidence since they admitted liability. So I will let you all know more on Wednesday.