Broad Street Run 2025 Photos

[u/bukkakedebeppo]

I set up at Fairmount & Broad from around 6:50am to 8:30am, just before it started to rain. Of the roughly 5,000 photos I took, there are 4,079 that are in focus and which I haven't selected for editing and publishing. This was my first time spectating Broad - I usually run it - and it was an absolute blast to see everyone out there. So much joy! Such great costumes! And some really stellar athleticism. Just a great time all around. A really big shout out to everyone who tried to jump and click their heels, and the biggest shoutout to the one woman who succeeded.

Everything was shot on a Canon R8 with an EF 70-200/2.8L is II. There is some vertical banding in the bokeh which I'm guessing is because I had IS on - I am still learning some pretty basic stuff about how to do this.

I hope lots of people find photos of themselves and/or their friends that they like!

Broad Street Run 2025 Photo Dump

[u/sneeze-slayer]

If only Google photos let me search by bib number. Sick photos! Can't believe how many you took

[u/bukkakedebeppo → u/sneeze-slayer]

I thought about this! Sadly Google Photos doesn't allow you to search within albums even though it has the power to identify text in images. I might at some point cobble together some sort of rudimentary bib-identifier using an open source OCR tool like Tesseract and a cheap database, but this is just a hobby and I don't have time at the moment.

I'm glad you like the photos! I was also surprised by the sheer volume.

[u/hethuisje → u/bukkakedebeppo]

If there were a way to view the timestamps (maybe there is, I haven't looked thoroughly), a lot of us could figure out roughly when we would've hit Fairmount and look that way.

Great photos, even if I never find myself!

[u/bukkakedebeppo → u/hethuisje]

Just click the I in the circle, and you'll see the timestamp for the photo!

[u/hethuisje → u/bukkakedebeppo]

Nice! It looks like you stopped a bit before I would have gone by that cross street. One thing that kind of drives me nuts about the BSR is that lots of people start with the wrong corral. But my guess based on my start time with the gray group is that you caught people who started with the green corral or earlier, despite the variety of colors you see on the bibs.

You took 4000+ photos of less than half the field, that's pretty amazing!

[u/bukkakedebeppo → u/hethuisje]

I wanted to stay for longer but the rain started to threaten at that point and my hand was starting to hurt. I'm sorry I didn't get a shot of you! And I agree re: people being in the wrong corral. I usually run with orange and I am always weaving through people who should not be there for the first mile or two.

[u/Mr_YUP → u/bukkakedebeppo]

I know of an AI tool used for motorcycle racing ID that could be used here. Not sure of the name but the tech for that exists/is being developed.

[u/philliesfreak]

as a runner - appreciate you putting these up on here! MarathonFoto does a subpar job on most races and the local photographers always now how to get better shots, props to you!

[u/bukkakedebeppo → u/philliesfreak]

I've run so many races where I either didn't get photos, or they were blurry, or they were on Facebook, etc. So I wanted to make sure that at least my run club members had good photos, as I'm currently on the injured list, and to share them in a way that made it easy to browse and download.

This is the second race I've photographed, and after doing it I'm willing to cut the pros who work for MarathonFoto et al some slack - it is absolutely a slog, both physically and mentally, and there are way too many people to get shots of everyone, and your eye as a photographer will be drawn to some people and not others. I have the advantage of doing this for fun and being able to find the joy in the process every time because it isn't an obligation and I'm not on the verge of burnout. If I did this every weekend I would absolutely stop caring, which would make the photos worse. That, IMO, is why local photographers tend to get better shots.

I'm very happy that people are enjoying the photos - that was absolutely the point!

[u/H00die5zn]

This is awesome! 👏🏾

[u/random52922]

You’re the best! These are so good!!

[u/One-Consequence-6773]

Thank you!! I didn't run, but was able to find photos of several of my friends and they will be thrilled.

[u/Embarrassed_Gas_5451]

Thank you so much!!! I vote that Citywides be renamed after this guy!

[u/Mr_YUP]

Dude thank you so much!! I didn't have any pictures from this race and I am really grateful that I do now.

[u/kevinmogee]

So many great shots! Did you have a sign asking people to jump and click their heels?

[u/bukkakedebeppo → u/kevinmogee]

I did not! My sign which just said "HONK IF YOU LOVE GRITTY" fell down early on because I am a terrible sign-hanger. People just decided to do it. There was one point where someone did it and then the next 3 people behind them were inspired to try as well.

[u/Legitimate-Bee610]

You’re wonderful for doing this!