Elite Auto Parts

I was at Japfest yesterday, a guest of Mondello Park who invited 21 photographers in on a photowalk to see, basically what they would come up with.

I had just two ideas going in there. 1) emulate one tiny snippet out of a Ricky Martin video (start of Living La Vida Loca for anyone who is really interested) and 2) try and emulate some of the colour work I see in Car Magazine. Well I didn’t watch the Ricky Martin video so wasn’t looking at the back side of the cars really, and the light didn’t really lend itself to having much fun with colour.

Also, an awful lot of the souped up Japanese cars in Ireland are black, and black does not work on a day when the sky is dark and murky. Yesterday it was horrifically bad.

So I took 400 plus photographs and although I’m not all that happy with that many of them, I should be able to pick out about 5 for Mondello’s benefit.

John Fair took care of us while we were in Mondello and I have to say hands up, he did a terrific job for us. I spend a lot of time shooting dangerous sports – not maybe as dangerous as motor racing can be but I know what risk is. The staff at Mondello were really helpful.

I didn’t get that much of the racing. I can’t pan so I have to fake it.

This is about as good as that gets. I much prefer the static stuff. Ironically, Neill Watson is involved in a supercar shooting tutorial the day after tomorrow and there’s a part of me sorry I didn’t make an effort to go. I like shooting cars, supercars and I think that I could have fun with these things.