Five years ago, I set myself a challenge. I saw an image by Darren Heath that got me sweaty. It was almost like love at first sight, you know the feeling; when something grabs your attention so hard that you are instantly smitten. You can’t explain why, but you see it as a summit you…
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…
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…
A few weeks back, I joked on twitter about it raining at the Goodwood Revival. I was pulled up by a friend who told me that it’s not nice when it rains at the Revival; I was of course joking and made my excuses that I was attempting some form of reverse psychology on the…
I had not visited the Silverstone Classic until last week, although I have seen and heard plenty about it. A weekend of nostalgia, celebrities and racing around the international circuit in vehicles that really should be in a museum. But these machines were built to race and that what the Silverstone Classic is all about.…
The Classics on the Common is an annual event local to me. I’ve visited a few times to check out the handsome quantity of cars that drive all over the local green and generally cause a sizeable commotion. It’s well worth the visit if you are into your vehicles; the selection on display is always…
This year was my second visit to the Goodwood Revival. It’s a brilliant event, not just for the atmosphere, nor for the unique approach of just about everyone that attends, but for the huge sense of appreciation you get watching what is effectively priceless machinery do what it was originally designed for. To race. The…
With two Grand Prix and a World Endurance event on the cards, I was wanting to understand more, to understand why and how my images were looking like they did and how do I make them better. So I went on an educational course. My experiences at Silverstone earlier in the year had given me…