If you're looking for pictures from eight-stage Amgen Tour of California, you should check out the Grassy Knoll Project at Steephill.tv.
There are quite a few collaborators in this project, which involved Tour spectators uploading their pictures onto the Steephill website.
There are more than 1,000 images listed by stage and by time, so you can determine when a picture was taken during the stage.
Where did the name Grassy Knoll project come from? Webmaster Steve explains…
Documentaries that have analyzed the Grassy Knoll Theory, ad nauseum, used chronologically sequenced photos and home movies from spectators along the parade route to reconstruct events around the scene of the crime. The spectators unknowingly became the media on that day in 1963.
Coverage of the Tour of California is tightly controlled by AEG (and understandably $o). I'd like to see this project demonstrate how effectively spectators can document a geographically dispersed event like a 100 mile point to point bike race. Today with the current popularity of blogging, photo sharing, and skepticism of the media, I thought this “We are the media” idea would be appropriate. The use of the term Grassy Knoll is a metaphor to the past and a phrase that succinctly captures these ideas.
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