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Another thing. Thanks to whoever started this farktography thing and thanks to the moderators for keeping it going. With life going a million miles an hour it is all too easy to leave the camera in the bag. Farktography gets me behind a lens and helps me notice the beautiful things in this world.

THIS

(actually I hate when people just say “This” or, worse, “THIS”, but this (sorry) time I think it’s appropriate.)

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Ha ha

My new lens (cheapie 18-50mm) showed up today.

Been wanting something wider-angle than 28-90 for a while now, time to go out and play with it.

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I wish I’d got some pictures of a HANS device at the last GP I went to now..

😀

I gotta have a better pic of one than this somewhere, but I knew where this one was when I read your post.

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Can I ask, as a newbie, a little about the “cliches and fads” that would garner votes?

Cleavage.

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ah the joys of living in featureless Waldorf, Maryland….

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I do motorsports journalism on a pretty amateur level. “Joe took the lead on lap 18 while Bob hit pit road for four tires and gas” etc etc. The race reports go to a trade paper that covers the series I travel with (NASCAR Busch East). Then I do a some PR work for a half-dozen teams in the series, doing their sponsorship announcements and race recaps, web sites and other boring stuff. I used to write a lot more – quotes from all the top ten finishers, driver profiles, and other feature stories – but photography is a lot more fun and seems to be more popular with my site’s visitors.

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Yes it is a Sigma 70-300, wicked wicked cheap but pretty good (which means my priorities are just about right). Got it as part of a two-lens set that included a 28-90 that I didn’t even need cause the two-lens kit was cheaper than most single 70-300 lenses I found.

The wife started shooting around the track a year or so back with our Canon G6 which is a pretty deluxe P&S so she just shot around the garage area and pit road. Last regular-season race of last year she stole my D100 (I am really a writer so I watch races from the pressbox) and shot trackside and got decent stuff – enough that she decided she wanted to do more. We picked her up a D70 and now she’s more popular at the track than I am. Nobody cares if I don’t post articles in a timely manner but if the pics don’t show up, boy do I hear it. She’s got a great eye and she’s fearless when it comes to approaching people, teams at work, stuff like that to get her shot.

She has expressed no interest in Farktography to this point. She’s a chick so she doesn’t think she should ‘get’ the whole Fark thing in the first place though I am trying to convince her otherwise.

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The wife, these days, shoots far more than I do and usually it’s better – I concentrate on single-car shots, she shoots anything and everything.

Her gallery is http://www.eastseries.com/photos/070825kc/index.html

Oh yah she got one of me looking like I know what I’m doing (?)

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I too spent Saturday shooting at cars in beautiful (?) Mansfield, Ohio. A couple examples

Full album is at http://www.eastseries.com/photos/070825ac/index.html

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I did. Apologies for the delay in getting it out, but the good news is that the camera survived our moving into a new house and it’s right there in the kitchen atop a stack of boxes the contents of which will probably remain a mystery. I’m on my own this week, the wife’s out of town for work, so I oughta be able to sneak out soon and get the thing sent out.

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Wow. Just wow.

Can’t believe I missed the boat (again) on this one.

Hope this theme comes back as a “classic” somewhere down the road.

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there are also weeks the muse takes a vacation.

My muse is on vacation way more than she’s in the office. I want her benefits package.

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Works for me. Shoot me an address and I’ll get it on its way

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Going once, going twice ?

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Our bag is from Ritz camera, brand is Quantaray and I think it cost about $60. Holds two bodies with lenses, two additional lenses, the desk tripod, the SB600 in its pouch, plus spare batteries, CF cards, card reader, and other related crap.

I think it’s like this, though they don’t show a pic of the interior which seems kinda wacky.
http://www.ritzcamera.com/product/441661295.htm

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