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