Great photo indeed - you could always pretend it was a special sandstorm race for madmen held somewhere in the Arabias.
2011/7/12 Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]>: > THe last thing I would have thought I'd like is a photo of a racing car... > (Racin cars aren't really girl things, ya know) > > this is nice, though. Were it mine, I'd crop a bit on the right to get the > car out of the middle of the frame... especially because the > roadway is kinda pointed in that direction... trimmin a bit of the bottom to > keep the nice proportions. > > Looks very scary. DId you think of this photo after seeing all the Haboob > photos? :-) > > ann > > > > On 7/11/2011 22:20, Doug Franklin wrote: >> >> I've shot a lot of frames of automobiles racing over the last few years. >> I don't know if I've shown this one to the group or not, but it's one of >> my favorites. Taken at Road Atlanta's Turn 10 during the 2007 Petit le >> Mans sportscar race, just before the sun went below the hills. >> >> http://NutDriver.org/2007-PlM-Esperante.jpg >> >> One of the Panoz Esperante cars had spun out into a gravel trap off to >> the right of the shot a few feet. After coming almost to a stop in the >> gravel, he pulled it together and surfed over to the pavement, creating >> a huge dust cloud. In the photo, he's just regained the pavement and >> started accelerating through the dust cloud to continue the race. >> Unfortunately, the wind was fairly still, and it took a couple of >> minutes before you could see into, much less through, the dust cloud. >> Several drivers had some exciting moments going through that cloud. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
