The 2015 British Grand Prix (plus 250-mile diversion)
Real name: Mike Edwards. My homage to seventies Vauxhalls: www.firenza.net
Camera - Pentax Kx, 18-55 kit lens, 18-200 Sigma, 50-500 Sigma, 500mm Tamron mirror
I also really like the classic OP shot of the little Fiat. The clarity of the Tamron 70-200mm always makes me smile!
Cheers,
Simon.
No 7 from Oulton park did make me smile.
Regards
George
@Mike: It's always worth keeping an eye on msv.com for details of forthcoming fixtures at Oulton Park and other circuits within the MSV/Brands Hatch group. The information is quite detailed and a full timetable is usually posted several days ahead of each meeting.
@Simon: Yes, 1/80 can be a bit of a challenge - but it's OK at slow- to medium-speed corners (the hit rate is still quite low, although that's down to my wobbly technique rather than any inadequacy on the camera's part). I wouldn't try it at Copse, where they're doing about 165mph at the apex... Generally, I start off at 1/125 or 1/160, then move up and down between 1/60 and 1/250 to see what is (or, more frequently, isn't) achievable.
simonarron
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Beckenham, Kent
1 - Lewis prepares to follow the Williams drivers for a while (K-5 IIs, Tamron 70-200)
2 - How the F1 paddock looks just before 6.30am, when for some reason I seem to be the only one there (K-3, Sigma 10-20, a panorama stitched together with PS Elements 12)
3 - Mercedes team formation during Friday practice, with Nico Rosberg ahead and Sir Frank Williams on TV (K-5 IIs, 70-200)
4 - Something that turns even more effectively than a Mercedes W06... (K-3, DA300)
5 - Valtteri Bottas wonders how on earth Williams managed to convert first and second to fourth and fifth (K-5 IIs, 70-200)
6 - Between this shot's composition and execution, 17-year-old Max Verstappen had aged by 1/80 of a second (K-3, Tamron 17-50)
7 - Up at Oulton Park, meanwhile, the pace of life was a little more relaxed (K-5 IIs, 70-200)
8 - Paddock dwellers were stupefied to learn that an Alfa Romeo required surgery (K-3, 17-50)
9 - A40 driver Matt Moore decides to put Pentax's dust seals to the test (K-3, DA300)
10 - What could possibly go wrong? (K-5 IIs, 70-200)