Here are some shots I have done around airports while flying from place to place. I know some of the airports included here are Dulles International VA, Phoenix Sky Harbor AZ, and LaGuardia NY.
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More effectively known as the Air Show, these shots are from last year’s show. I wish I could have gone to this years event but they did such a great job of scheduling it on a weekend that was more overcast than last year (not their fault) and on the same weekend as about 10 other events in the area(ok partially their fault).
In any case I have been going to Air Shows at Andrews AFB for years since moving to the DC area in 1989 with my parents. Of course it helped that at the time my father was stationed on the base and we lived there.
For the most part any shot you see that is of a plan flying I can guarantee it was done with my 80-400mm Sigma lens, and everything on the ground was done with the 18-200 Nikor VRII lens. To give you an idea notice in some of the photos you can see the pilot, none of these are cropped, in fact all they have had done to them is re-size them to be more web friendly.
For the planes and jets in flight I slowed down the shutter speed so not to stop the blades, I wanted to insure the look of motion in the photos, obviously this was not a concern with the shots at ground level. There were a few unfortunately where I did not slow things down enough, oops, guess I’ll just have to remember that next time.
These are shots from the first day of racing at New Jersey Motorsport Park’s Thunderbolt Raceway. Thankfully this day we did not get any of the rain, there were a few small bursts during some of the other races.
Tags: Grand-Am, Rolex Series
Race was being held at New Jersey Motorsport Park on their Thunderbolt Raceway track. Overall it was a pretty good day, could have done without all the overcast and the occasional rain shower but still had a pretty good time. Track was wet after about half the race and the Viper’s and Corvettes just could not seem to handle that. Overall Andy Pilgrim driving the K-Pax Volvo won the race followed by his teammate in the second K-Pax Volvo and third was taken by the GT500.
These first ones are from the Grand-Am Rolex Series Bosch Engineering 250 held there. It was great weather fr a race, 90 degrees outside, nice breeze, sunny…overall a good day. Even with the nice weather the race had it’s moments, basically your typical people overreaching or just loosing it while trying to fight it out with another car. No one really lost it on the roller coaster this year which was a surprise though.
These photos are from the Star Mazda Challenge Series race which was held the same weekend as the Grand-Am race. Again not too much to talk about, one of the drivers went way off track on the final turn on the first lap not sure if he tried to brake late or if the tires were just not holding good due to temp and pressure but for whatever reason it really set him back. There was also an instance where two of them got together by the Oak Tree, was not there to see that one I only got to see the aftermath. Both cars were still drivable but one did need a replacement front nose clip.
Tags: Grand-Am, Road Racing, Star Mazda Challenge, Virginia International Raceway