Bicycle of Freedom

This work by Adam M is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.

As I was parking my bicycle in the bike room I bumped the bike next to it, and that bike rolled forward with an unexpected smoothness. I realised that it wasn't chained up, and in a room stuffed full of bikes all chained up, this one bike seemed to be so free. It was like a symbol of open mindedness. Trusting and uninhibited. Is it naivete to leave your bike without locking it up, or is it a challenge to the defensive individualistic-ness of the other riders? "Value objects less!" it exclaims. "Trust others, and they will be trustworthy". There was something beautiful about this bike.

Canon A720 - 1/10 sec - f/2.8 - ISO 400 - ~38mm

Indoors, fluro strip lights.

Used GIMP to adjust levels, scale and watermark.

I found that if I used my flash, set to -2 stops compensation it didn't really show up, except that all the reflectors (red on the back, yellow on the spokes and pedals, white on bags) were highlighted. Worth remembering.