pburke wrote:
Sometimes you get lucky. Rain storm, tent blown away, F1 cars rolled into pedestrian tunnel overnight, and I get there at 7:15am with my D810 and some MF glass in the pack while heading to a photo meeting. Meeting can wait. This will never happen again, and nobody else sees the potential of these photos?
Used the 16mm f/3.5AI here, a bit of de-fishing and plenty of NIK tools and Photoshop color grading magic.
got a few more of these but no time to process. Another race weekend coming and then I'll be in California for a few weeks of HIgh Sierra again. ...Show more →
A stroke of serendipity or genius?? Whichever it is Peter .... they are great shots of the JPS Lotus
Back to the Tour de France for me .....
If you are hosted by a team, you get access to the pre-race village each morning, and the hotel with the team in the evening, including dinner with the team ..... awesome experience!!
Also the final stage in Paris, was on the itinerary so a shot from the team car on the way down the Rue De Rivoli on the final drive into Paris an hour ahead of the race .....
The best place I felt was the bottom of the Champs Elysees, the angles at the Place de la Concorde heading for the final 300 metres were not that good, and the other side of the square means catching riders traveling at up to 70 kph as they come downhill basically .......
F3's ..... with 80-200mm f4.5
Steve
Nikon is for life
Stokesey 2019
The host team vehicles on Rue de Rivoli almost on the final kilometre
Stokesey 2019
Pre-race village - Christophe Rinero of Cofidis team and King of the Mountains
Stokesey 2019
Lillian Lebretton of Big Mat/IBM team - my hosts. In the village
Stokesey 2019
Marco Pantani (in yellow jersey) following his lead man on Champs Elysees
My trusty beater 180mm f/2.8 AIS ED - if it only had auto focus for speedy and reliable capture, I'd use it for people shots and other more critical stuff
If it's pit girls you want, motogp is the place, plus close exciting racing where overtaking happens without the need to introduce ridiculous gimmicky rules to make it closer. Just saying 😋
other than Isle of Man and Baja 1000, I don't follow much of any motorcycle racing. Not sure why, since I owned a motorcycle the day I got a driver's license in Germany and have owned many since. It's just a very different animal compared to car racing. Exciting to watch when they slide these things under braking into turns, but it just never got my attention as much as the 911 Turbos in the late 70s that spit huge flames under braking, or the Indycars that went through turn 1 at Indy at 235mph in 1995. You have to see that in person to understand why that is such a huge deal. First time you see that you'll swear that car is going to nail the wall (which still were concrete back then).
Also, watch IMSA races and you'll get to see a fine racing series where everyone can pass at any time, even in the same class of car. It's just that silly F1 and IndyCar aero stuff that mucks up the racing and forces creations like push to pass or flappy rear wings. IMSA prototypes are almost as fast as Indycars and can pass each other just fine, with ground effects and wings. They just don't create as much turbulence as the open wheelers.
and an unusual combo for me: D500 with the 20mm f/3.5 AI, but I wqas pressed for time and this was the right focal length for the moment. 20 too wide, and the 55 on the D810 was too narrow
Wanted to share som pics from recent photographic activity....but...
A few weeks ago I had to change my password on flickr and lost the note I wrote it down on, so I can no longer access it. When clicking the forgot password icon yahoo only refers to my yahoo email adress which is also connected to my flickr account. I guess I could contact flickr and have them help me of course. But I also wanted to see what kind of options there are for sharing photos here. Perhaps from another platform than flickr? Any thoughts?
