North Queensland, one of the most beautiful places on the planet. Especially when it is sunny. Last years Townsville 400 was with out a doubt for me the best V8 Supercar event of the year and this year’s event will again be hard to beat for that. Not only does the city come alive for the event but the atmosphere at the track is amazing and the location is brilliant. This year again I had a couple of days free in the build-up up to the event to check out some of the sights of Townsville and surrounding areas. The best of which was of course Magnetic Island and the spectacular Horseshoe Bay.
So after six great days in Townsville it is time to share a few touristy images. V8 shots to follow soon…..
Monday, July 19, 2010 Posted in Personal
One of my ever faithful readers and good friend has requested that I update the blog. Thanks for that Geoff, that’s right you get named. WOW! Anyway I have heaps of photos to share with you all from Townsville and some more racing ones as well, which I will do hopefully very soon but in the mean time I have some photos from the weekend. Just three, all taken on a point and shoot camera, I know what is the world coming to you ask. The first of which is of one very incredibly lovely big Tiger, the second is a nice shot of the afternoon light hitting Brisbane and the last is of a certain ride which I was very happy to have conquered. High five for me! Yes, yes thank you for your applause.
So Geoff, are you happy now? I should think so. lol
I have to start off by saying that yes, I know, when you start shooting old suitcases you really need to get out more. Anyway, this is a particulate interesting old suitcase. One that has a lot of character and I hope makes for some interesting images. Still working on different ways I could shoot it, but for the time being I will put these images under the “abstract section”.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Posted in Personal
He’s back and this time with more fur! I am so not looking forward to when he starts loosing it after winter. Nasty. He is of course doing what he does best, which is posing for photos.
Thursday, June 3, 2010 Posted in Abstract
At one stage I was going to do a series of Polaroid images, that is a work in progress thing at the moment. In the meantime I have one from the other day.
The other day I was trying to find some images that I needed off one of my back up hdds. Always fun looking there, old images you sometimes forget that you have shot. Although when there are around 25000 images on there it can be hard to find two specific images. Although these are not the two I was looking for I thought I would share these two. I can remember taking these like it was yesterday. Both where taken down at Sandgate in 2006, at a time when most sensible people would still be a sleep on a Sunday morning.
Thursday, June 3, 2010 Posted in Abstract
It has been sometime since I have posted some non motorsport pics on here, so time to address that… I went with some friends in to the city last Sunday afternoon. It was a typically lovely autumn afternoon in Brisbane, bit chilly, it was the second last day of autumn though. I had a chance to snap a couple of pics whilst we were there. Nothing that special, but a few crazy angles.
Shooting the post race celebrations is one of the best parts of the weekend: Seeing the emotions of a team and driver after all the hard work that has gone into achieving reaching the top step of the podium. Being in the middle of these celebrations capturing all the emotions is a great privilege, but not always easy to get that shot. This shot of James Courtney embracing Adrian Burgess sums up what was a perfect weekend for James Courtney and the whole Jim Beam racing outfit.
Settings: Canon 1DMKIII, 16-35, F/10, at 1/300 sec.
by Chris Von Wieldt
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