[ratpack] Re: Quick update

  • From: Larry Knight <carpixguy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:24:13 -0600

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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