When life gives you "lemons"

You race em!

At least that's what these guys do at Circuit Grand Bayou located in Belle Rose LA. If you have heard of the 24 Hours of Le mans then you kind of get the idea behind this race, the 24 hours of lemons. You buy a car for $500.00 and install all the required safety gear, get about 4 friends or more to help co-drive, pit crew and off you go.

One thing you will notice is that almost all the cars have a theme. This race is about fun! There are some crazy rules to even encourage fun. If, for example you make an off track excursion you may be called in to see the stewards and made to walk around the pits reciting the rule book that clearly says to not go off track. There are plenty of penalties and crazy acts of penance, such as having to weld a metal thing to the roof of your car.

As you would expect a race that last all day you will need to make pit stops for fuel and tires as well as driver changes.

The racing is serious yet safe.












But always colorful.

Notice the metal pig welded on to the trunk of the car?

This car had load Arabic music playing all through the race.

In case you don't know that is a crab trap on top of the 911 car.

A little off  track action.

This one really cracked me up.

The Crapsmen truck ran
strong all weekend.

Where else would you expect to see such beautifully prepared race cars?
Well at least colorful race cars........ If you're a race fan you really need to check one of these races out. Lots of action and lots of colorful cars and participants.
 If you would like to see more photograph's from the race weekend please go here.

Shawn and Stephanie's Engagement Photographs

 My cousin Shawn is getting married and i had the privilege of taking some engagement shots. Shawn and Stephanie were lot's of fun to work with and even though the temperature was in the 90's we managed to get plenty of shot's before we started to melt.

The Audubon Park area in New Orleans is a great place to visit and photograph. Lots of oak trees and grassy areas.

          I'm looking forward to doing some more photographs of Shawn and Stephanie before the wedding and i think we're going to wait until it cools off a bit.                 

Rob            

Pennington Hot Air Balloon Championship

I've never been to a balloon festival before and i heard about it from http://www.meetup.com/louisianasocietyofdigitalphotographers/. Ive been trying to meet other photographers in the area but because of traffic and travel distance i still have not met anyone. We were stuck in traffic for about 45 minutes and missed the meet up time by a long shot.
  We arrived in time to watch the balloonist unpack their equipment and prepare for the nights activities.

I have seen balloons on TV and print but never in person and i was amazed at the size and the heat from the torch's.

I stood between a couple of the balloons as they filled with air and started to stand up and it was like being in some crazy movie with a feeling of being consumed by the silent giants.

I  think my inner child made an appearance because when the torch's started going i spent a lot of time watching and taking shots of all the flames.

The balloons make great subjects to photograph with all those great bright colors.
Once it got dark they did what is called a "Balloon Glow" where they light up all the balloons at once.

So I'll leave you with this, if you get the chance to go to a balloon fest please do i think you will enjoy it.

Introduction

First blog

 My name is Robert and this is my little space on the internet. I’ve been doing photography for about 6 years and I love motor sport photography and portraits. I occasionally take landscape shots but I love racing action and have really been enjoying learning lighting for portraits.

 I hope to use this blog to help myself learn as well as helping others. I will post my favorite blogs and websites to help others find some really great learning tools as well as share my experiences with my experiments in lighting and learning photographic techniques.  I will share my success and my failures as I work through the process of getting my photographs.

 I  will also post reviews on the equipment I buy and use, I don’t get paid or receive free stuff from any companies so I don’t mind talking frankly about what I purchase if it will help others make an informed decision. I spend lots of time researching products before I buy and I do my best to try and spend wisely.

 Thanks for stopping by and I hope you find my blog interesting, funny and useful.

Rob