My friend Bruce Aldrich traveled with me last year to the Tour de France. I already knew he was an accomplishment athlete, but I also quickly realized he's an accomplished photographer and videographer.

Bruce took hundreds of photographs during the 2006 Tour and also shot a good amount of video. He mixed the whole thing into a short film we'll debut on this site prior to this year's Tour de France. (It begins July 7.)

Last week, Bruce and his father visited the California Capital Airshow in Sacramento and he took the image above. It's quite impressive.

My friend Tom Morstein-Marx is an accomplished
endurance athlete and a veteran pilot. I've gotten to know him better recently on some nice afternoon training runs.

He was recently visiting the Lake Tahoe area and had his digital camera with him on a training run. He saw this fine beast along the way. Tom managed to keep a steady hand at a safe distance and took the image the image to the right.