Lens on Lake Minnetonka August Photo

Last year’s Tour de Tonka race brought more than 2,700 cyclists of all ages out to ride across Lake Minnetonka communities in the seventh annual multi-distance bicycle ride. Lake-area resident Carl Rosen snapped this shot of the cyclists cruising by much-loved annual event. “I parked my little red truck at a distance and pedaled to the starting gate for the 26-mile group,” he says. “I missed capturing the first mass of bikers and waited for this group.”Rosen has participated in two previous Tour de Tonka rides and snapped this photo at last year’s event—a photo that received second-place honors in the Events and Activities category of the 2012 Lens on Lake Minnetonka photo contest.Rosen says he wanted a “picture of a moment in history of all those good-looking people taking care of their bodies.”He became even more motivated to take photos while participating in Jon Wright’s photo group at the Gillespie Center in Mound. “[Jon] inspired me to use my eyes for moments like this,” Rosen says. More than anything, Rosen says he is most satisfied with his photos when “the imagined results are close to what [he] hoped to convey."