When I grow up, I'd like to shoot like this guy.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
How to shoot an award-winning motorsports photo...
LEMANS: Of Tie fighters, light and trees: the story of an award-winning photo
When I grow up, I'd like to shoot like this guy.
When I grow up, I'd like to shoot like this guy.
Equal parts skill and luck?
So, tell me....what is the ratio of skill to luck that enables someone to capture a photo like this?
I must learn this mixture.
More by this photog here.
More by this photog here.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Coolest photo I've ever taken...
Circuit de le Sarthe, Le Mans...2009....Sir Stirling Moss drives a 1956 OSCA FS 372 through the Dunlop Curve.
One picture, more than a thousand words...
Thanks for capturing a moment, Mr. Packer.
(Rolex 24 at Daytona, 2004....sometime in the middle of the night)
(Rolex 24 at Daytona, 2004....sometime in the middle of the night)
The obligatory "why are we here?" post
I suppose that, when starting a blog, you have to state within the first five posts why we are here. "We" assumes a reader...perhaps a stretch here, but one can always hope....
As of this writing, I've been a corner marshal at Virginia International Raceway for 12 seasons. Corner marshals are the folks (unbeknownst to the NASCAR crowd) who wear white and stand in one place all day (and sometimes all night) in all sorts of weather keeping watch over cars on a racetrack, ever ready to wave a flag and summon help should something go wrong. But, more importantly, we do it to stand close to the racetrack, well beyond the vantage point of those common folk (les piétons) who bought tickets, to watch these machines do what they were designed to do.
Casual fans we are definitely not.
Through friendships made at VIR, I've been lucky enough to watch amazing drivers race incredible machines at the best racetracks in the US. I've also been fortunate to have the stars align allowing me to make the pilgrimage to petrolhead mecca for the 24 Hours of Le Mans (24 Heures du Mans, for those of you who parlez-vous).
To those of you with whom I've shared a flag stand, hospitality suite, media center, or bit of spectator fence, it's been an amazing dozen years. Here's to many more races in many more places.
Feel free to stop by and share in random postings, musings, and an occasional decent photo of some real auto veloci.
Cheers.
As of this writing, I've been a corner marshal at Virginia International Raceway for 12 seasons. Corner marshals are the folks (unbeknownst to the NASCAR crowd) who wear white and stand in one place all day (and sometimes all night) in all sorts of weather keeping watch over cars on a racetrack, ever ready to wave a flag and summon help should something go wrong. But, more importantly, we do it to stand close to the racetrack, well beyond the vantage point of those common folk (les piétons) who bought tickets, to watch these machines do what they were designed to do.
Casual fans we are definitely not.
Through friendships made at VIR, I've been lucky enough to watch amazing drivers race incredible machines at the best racetracks in the US. I've also been fortunate to have the stars align allowing me to make the pilgrimage to petrolhead mecca for the 24 Hours of Le Mans (24 Heures du Mans, for those of you who parlez-vous).
To those of you with whom I've shared a flag stand, hospitality suite, media center, or bit of spectator fence, it's been an amazing dozen years. Here's to many more races in many more places.
Feel free to stop by and share in random postings, musings, and an occasional decent photo of some real auto veloci.
Cheers.
Green flag
McQueen. Le Mans.
Seems to be the best way to kick off a new blog devoted to racing and works of art on four wheels.
Seems to be the best way to kick off a new blog devoted to racing and works of art on four wheels.
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