Let's Go Racin'

Well, I retouched a few of the pictures of the Sprint Car races with the idea of making some prints for my father-in-law. Rather than make you go and click on my PhotoShelter page (which you can still do, it's cool!) I thought I'd test the "jump" feature of Blogger. You have to actually twiddle the code in your layout as well as making changes in the text of your posts, but once it's set up it's not hard. John Harrington does this all the time and he rules, so it must be a good idea.


You can click on the pictures to see larger versions, by the way. Here's a nifty speed-blur shot.


Here's a picture of my father-in-law pulling away from the pack:


And here's a nifty racing-magazine style shot of a track official under the lights:

I don't think I'll be shooting for Sports Illustrated any time soon, but given what I had to work with (my lenses aren't very fast) I'm actually pretty happy with the shots.

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Go Go Sprint Racer!

My father-in-law is a racer - he's been driving in competitive auto sports longer than I've been alive. Right now he races sprint cars, which are open-wheel, cage-frame cars, usually run on small dirt tracks and very popular with hobbyists because they're not too expensive and the races are usually fun sprints as opposed to multi-hundred-lap endurance tests.


I went to the track with him Saturday night, because there was nobody else to go and it's much easier if you have a helper to go get fuel, hand you stuff, drive the van home if you break your leg, that kind of thing. I took quite a few photos. I submitted several to PhotoShelter, my stock agency. You can see them here:

http://psc.photoshelter.com/user/marcwphoto/set/A0000u5ys.4_qWXA/Sprint+Car+Racing

Comments invited. Incidentally, my father-in-law is #14 in the white car.

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