Cars parked amongst the tools and tents of a temporary paddock are not photogenic. No sir. No matter how hard the sun shines, milking those morsels of creativity in a ramshackle village of mechanics, buffet lunches and camper vans is a hard task. Once you’ve shot one nose of a racer poking out in to…
I took a trip up to Silverstone for the first time this year, to catch the Vintage Sports Car Club meet that was going down over the splendid last weekend. Yes, I returned to the airfield, even thought I had said I would spend less time there this year. There’s good reason behind it. As…
This season has started slowly, which feels odd, considering how many events I appear to have listed in my calendar. As I spoke about in the last blog, I’m keen to seek out new subjects and different locations, to save myself from too much repetition. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the photography, I am…
I’ve been a bit flummoxed as to what to write for this blog, I’ll admit. The snow, 76mm, and a few interesting conversations of a photographical nature have all be at the fore of my mind, but none have inspired the usual cacophony of words to plop from my brain into the keys. Part of…
Here we go. The first tread into my third year snapping images of the fast car variety and a trip up to ‘Europe’s #1 historic motorsport show’. I saw a few images from last season efforts and it looked good; rally cars, a few classics and an interesting backdrop of leaves, green and hay bales.…
We’re about midway through the off season, Christmas is done and we all getting itchy trigger fingers, not due to the stresses and strains of the festive season, but to the lack of on track action…unless of course you’re lucky enough to get over to Daytona. I’m looking forward to my third year shooting pics,…
I’m not a fan of the off season. It gets a little boring when you have not much to focus on, new, exciting material isn’t forthcoming the next event to shoot isn’t for a month or two. In the past, you would’ve probably enjoyed the downtime or shifted your focus to another pastime or opportunity,…
That is it. The end of another year of high speed photographic adventures. Only my second year too, although it feels like I’ve been doing this forever. Ha ha not really, it feels like I’ve been doing this for about two years! It’s been a wild season, with plenty of new experience and a few…
Race Tracks are pretty bland places. Tarmac, occasional greenery and now and again, a little advertising colour. I’m betting when most folks think of racetracks, they think of the F1 splendor – Neat, tidy, vibrant colour, full grandstands, famous faces and immaculate presentation. Us motorsport fans know different. They can be hostile, scrappy expanses. Cold, miserable…
What camera is best for motorsport photography? I think that is a daft question, and ‘one that takes pictures’, is often my chipper response. The more experience I gain, the more I witness how folks relate equipment to quality images – no, sorry – that’s the wrong term; with quality photography. But then that often…
At this time of year, the events start to thin out a little, and the opportunities for the adventurous motorsport photographer become a little sparse. I’ve noticed this quite a bit this year, as my usual routine of an-event-each-weekend has dropped off to one every fortnight, or even longer. In the meantime, I try and…
Amateurs worry about equipment, professionals worry about money, masters worry about light. I read that quote a long time ago somewhere. I can’t remember where, but it was a while ago. I often go back to it every now and again and try to make sense of it. For instance; what do you do if…