On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:59:32PM -0500, Christian wrote: > John Francis wrote: > > > > > Every year at this time, while I'm watching the Dakar rally from the > > comfort of my own living room, I wonder whether it might be fun to be > > out there as one of the event photographers. Then sanity prevails ... > > > > I still want to get to shoot a WRC event, though. > > Not WRC but an actual Pentax shot of the Melbourne Rally in 2003: > http://photography2.skofteland.net:8080/albums/userpics/10001/subaru_imgp0090web.jpg
About 30 years ago I was in Auckland when the New Zealand rally was run. (In those days local boy Rod Millen was competing in a Ford Escort). I didn't get anything quite as good as that, but I did get some shots. That taught me there's a lot more to motorsport photography; my shots (and the one you show above) look as though they could almost have been taken with the car stationary, parked in the corner. I want to get dust trails, blurred wheels, cars coming over jumps, ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
