[ratpack] Re: Thanks to you Rat Pack Slacker..$$$$$$$$$
- From: "Larry Knight" <Larry.Knight@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:22:52 -0600
Paul,
Your certainly welcome!!! (Humor)
Congrats on all the sales, that is outstanding!!!! The racing sounded
fun too, sorry I missed it.
I basically had a choice to make, go to miller, piss off wife, go out to
the salt flats with the whole family, make wife and family happy, enjoy
new experience.
Monetarily I probably made the wrong choice, I probably should have
pissed of the wife and competed with you for the $$$$ at miller (not
much competition when I don't really care though huh?).
But we had a great time at the salt. I have never even been out there
before, racing or no racing. It was very interesting. Perfect day,
overcast and 65 degrees.
I called up Ray and hung out with him for a while before we had to
leave, but I asked him a ton of questions and really enjoyed the
interesting cars out there. The cars running around the viewing area and
the pits were almost as interesting as the racers. Rat Rods everywhere,
and soooo interesting mechanically.
It was a long drive for my boys, but fun. I could feel the pull to want
to get a car and go fast, kind of infectious actually. But a quick look
at my wallet overcame the infection.
I am still cleaning salt off the old minivan we drove out there, what a
mess.
Your shots of that lime green Radical are awesome (I hate that word, but
it actually came out of my mouth when I saw those two shots you posted)
Nice work!!!
Are you going to post any from the SCCA event? Please!!!
It seems like I miss the SCCA event every year, not sure about the carma
on that, but do post a bunch of pics.
I didn't do much shooting at the salt flats. My lens is too short. The
cars are too far away for good quality shooting while on track. I didn't
have much time to walk around and talk to many racers and shoot many
cars in the pits. I was amazed at how high I could set the shutter
speeds before it would bottom out on the apature though, I was shooting
at 1/2000 of a second with an ISO of 320 an the apature was no where
near the bottom. Lots of light off that salt!!!!
Ray, I look forward to seeing what you shot out there. I'll go through
my shots and send a couple out if I find anything interesting. I only
shot about 60 pictures.
See Ya
Larry
From: ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of PAUL W WATSON
Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 11:22 PM
To: ratpack
Subject: [ratpack] Thanks to you Rat Pack Slacker..$$$$$$$$$
I just wanted to send thanks to Ray and Larry for not showing up at
Miller this weekend. Pretty good racing. I didn't have to hustle for
sales. They were just throwing money my way. No S---. I sold six 20 X
30's. My price was $50.00 for one and $40.00 each for two or more. I
sold three sets of two and even of shots that did not have their car in
it.
Do you remember my shot of the ALMS start that I took for the end of the
straight? Sold two of the on the spot.
The FV and SRF caused some excitement in turn one lap one when a SRF
tapped a FV causing it to spin. A total one SRF and three FV's were
taken out on turn one. I was there for most of it. That was 1/2 of the
FV field. There was almost a fist fight in the paddock. Officials put
a stop to it.
Another lady came by and wanted an 8 x10 or 11 x 14 of her husbands car.
I told her that I don't do small photos. She is going to buy a 20 X 30,
$50.00 + $10.00 shipping and handling. The Radical driver are buying
several CD's.
All in all it was a pretty good weekend.
Let us know how you did on the Flats Ray$$
Paul
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