Twenty-five years ago I had a chance to ride with Stig Blomquist in his Saab rally car. I got quite a few shots of him driving on a dirt test course in the Saab proving grounds. I'll have to see if I can find them. Paul On Jan 15, 2007, at 5:19 PM, John Francis wrote:
> 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
