I was looking through my pics tonite, and came across this beautiful Lola/Judd that Drayson Racing runs, and something just seemed make the picture even better, and then I saw it, Paul Watson in the background, it doesn't get any better than that!!! See Ya Tomorrow Larr On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Up periscope. Been running sorta silent and deep for a while as I thrashed > to catch up on stuff. Most of the "current backlog" has been dealt with, > including the Mudslinger's race: > http://www.chevyasylum.com/racing/racing2010/20100627/Welcome.html > > Spent a lotta the day shootin this and that at the track. Personal > observation: I can't remember seeing the place that densely packed with > haulers, EZ-Ups and God knows what all. Sorta like Superbike but with > bigger race vehicles. > > I went to see the Pirate (Les Long) after getting my blue vest (don't even > think about tryin to fake one. It's so ALMS/IMSA specific that it'd be > cheaper to bribe someone to get the real deal than tryin to make anything > like it....and it's hot, too) and he intimated that PCA is suing Miller's > (or maybe just threatened to sue) over the use of the PCA name, so the event > Les is promoting is now called the Air Power Invitational. He was real > happy with the poster I had made for him in advance. So was JR Smith. > George Smith had some suggestions for how he wanted a poster. Aaron Pfadt > wants a CD of photos...I guess you could say I spent the first hour or so > doing personal selling. If I knew I'd be doing this 5 years ago, I'd be > spinning at 7 grand in my grave if I was alive today....or something like > that. I guess the saying I repeated like a mantra, "I used to hate > selling. But I'm better at it now and every time I make a sales call/pitch > , I get a little better" seems to be working as "positive self-talk" for > those who dabble in psychobabble. :) > > I set up to shoot from Turn One at the trailer/photographers' stand on the > west side of the kitty litter. Tripod, cable release, 100-400 lens and 1.4 > converter. Results in photo 0098r8. Acceptable, but I can't say I'm crazy > about the heat distortion and its watercolor-like effect, but I guess > anybody shootin over that distance will have the same results. Btw, I need > a fluid-drive tripod head. I can't turn mine smoothly enough. Amazon, here > we come: > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009R6FF/ref=ox_ya_os_product Well, > there went $90. But I knew I'd need one for the salt this year. > > I continued doing some sighting in from Turn 3, turn 6, then The > Attitudes. The other shots are from The Attitudes...including our very own > Melanie Snow gettin a little air over the rumble strips. Very little, but > air nonetheless. > > The IMSA lights and the Radicals are back and there seems to be a > never-ending supply of 'em. Speakin of Radicals, Wozzname Tatum has a > Radical for sale (If he was giving it away would it be a free > radical?...never mind. I'm just real tired.) The interesting thing about > this one is that it's marked as an A/SR. I figgered that would be an SR8. > No, it's an SR3. I give up. Did somebody throw a Chevy Big Block down the > hatch while I wasn't looking? Here's what SCCA sez about it. > http://runoffs.na-motorsports.com/97/classes.html There's a shot of it > attached. > > Gotta be there early tomorrow. The "Air Power Invitational" practice > starts at 8 am. > > G'nite. Down periscope. > > r > > > -- > Sent from my Dreadnought using that barely tolerable Thunderbird email program > >
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