The image of a cyclist in a field of grapes almost looks more like surrealism than photojournalism.
AP PHOTOS: A race to capture the Tour de France before it flies by
The image of a cyclist in a field of grapes almost looks more like surrealism than photojournalism.
A rider in a teardrop-shaped helmet and skin-tight racing suit hunches over his aerodynamic handlebars in the middle of a Burgundy vineyard with no road in sight. He is framed between a woman and man waving flags who are facing in the opposite direction he’s going.
The image snapped by Associated Press photographer Jerome Delay in the fraction of a second is not so much an art photo as an artfully composed frame of professional cyclist Primoz Roglic going all out in the Tour de France - yet appearing to be frozen in place.
Shooting the three-week race that ended Sunday is as much about finding a unique angle that captures the scenic and quirky side of one of the world's most epic competitions as it is about getting stage winners crossing the line with arms raised in victory.