24 Hours of Taking Photos...at Le Mans - Page 2

kdr · 27 Jun 2005, 12:55 (Ref:1341084)

last 10 to make "the set".

kdr · 27 Jun 2005, 12:57 (Ref:1341086)

and finally. not sure if i'll be there next year, 2006 is going to be a very very busy year in sport. if i don't go i hope the weather is a repeat of this years for everybody that does!

gi_gav · 27 Jun 2005, 15:24 (Ref:1341202)

Rainier,

I must have been about a metre to your left during that Corvette tyre change... I saw it come in from the press room and ran down to get the shot.

vwpilot · 27 Jun 2005, 17:38 (Ref:1341258)

And I must have been right there as well.

http://www.speedarena.com/gallery/al...ry%201/054.jpg

As a matter of fact, I think that I captured Gav's shadow quite nicely.

Andrew W · 27 Jun 2005, 17:43 (Ref:1341262)

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Originally Posted by vs346

alright guys, here are a few.

www.sportsshooter.com/rainier

As always R, good work!

Andrew

kdr · 27 Jun 2005, 17:55 (Ref:1341269)

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Originally Posted by vwpilot

And I must have been right there as well.

http://www.speedarena.com/gallery/al...ry%201/054.jpg

As a matter of fact, I think that I captured Gav's shadow quite nicely.

i'm feeling left out...

didn't you guys know the TT meeting was in the village at noon, not outside the corvette garage during the race?

vs346 · 27 Jun 2005, 19:25 (Ref:1341343)

Thanks Andrew! LM is special, no doubt about it. Great light all week.

Hey KDR, where were you, I sent you a quick mail with my desk number so we could meet up. BTW, did you see they now have a McDonald's on the Mulsanne? The rear shot of the DBR9 on the straight with "Champion" made me think: Would there be a way to get the golden arches in the shot? hmmm.. there's always 2006.

kdr · 27 Jun 2005, 20:03 (Ref:1341395)

vs sorry i didn't get your email, i don't have anything in my TT private messages, must have got lost in the ether. we were sitting at the far end of the press centre, handily positioned near the staircase up to what used to be the michelin bar.

we passed the mcdonalds on friday afternoon, do you mean the one thats in that small outlets type place? if so i think its probably too far from the straight...besides i think the ghosts of le mans photographers past would be turning in their graves if we even attempted it!

i was pleased with where they put the ferris wheel...and i wish i'd known these last couple of years what a great sunrise picture there is now the track after the dunlop bridge has changed...this was my first year of doing it and its been like that since 2002...i have to thank david L for the inspiration to go to the inside of the circuit after seeing his great picture from last year.

gi_gav · 27 Jun 2005, 21:04 (Ref:1341461)

Gentlemen, I'd be cursing you if you got an LM shot with the accursed golden arches in the background! Absolute sacrilege and nothing less.

vs346 · 28 Jun 2005, 02:15 (Ref:1341621)

kdr, i was at the far end as well, in the dark corner across from David L and John Brooks! Did you have your backs to the stairs? I think I might know who you were.

kdr · 28 Jun 2005, 08:48 (Ref:1341776)

vs we were facing outwards at the windows with our backs nearly in line with the aco IT dept, we had the blinds down a lot of the time so we could see our screens...thats the best description i can think of!

gav i know what you mean and i wouldn't be trying for a golden arches picture....unless it made an interesting shot. you have to remember that in 50 years time your picture taken today will look quaint and nostalgic. golden arches are just todays version of misty eyed b/w "gauloises" or "dunlop pneumatique" advertising. thats the great thing about le mans...the fact its being going on so long and you're contributing to its photographic history.

MikeHoyer · 28 Jun 2005, 12:19 (Ref:1341932)

Don't knock the Mcdonalds on the Mulsanne, it was great for a hot "meal", + hot water and soap on Sunday night

kdr · 28 Jun 2005, 13:33 (Ref:1341990)

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Originally Posted by MikeHoyer

Don't knock the Mcdonalds on the Mulsanne, it was great for a hot "meal", + hot water and soap on Sunday night

a very convenient one in Bernay on the way down also...but when will le mcdonalds cater for us veggies?!

David L · 28 Jun 2005, 16:00 (Ref:1342095)

I can safely say that McDonalds didn't feature on our radar during the week down there..

gi_gav · 28 Jun 2005, 17:41 (Ref:1342178)

Oh Mike, I'll knock McDonalds whenever I get the chance! At least you put 'meal' in inverted commas...

Sorry to go so politically off topic but they really are a hideous company for all sorts of reasons. Get some stuff from a market or such beforehand and you'd do so much better.

vs346 · 28 Jun 2005, 20:28 (Ref:1342316)

anyone seen the movie Super Size Me? That'll keep you from eating at a fast food place for a very long time. In case anyone couldn't figure it out just from common sense, it's proven that with such high calorie/fat/sugar content you can literally eat your liver into oblivion, much like an alcoholic. blech!!!

I agree with kdr about the arch being a nostalic bit 30 years down the road. It's also relevant today, as it shows that even LM is not immune to corporate expansion.

egor · 30 Jun 2005, 12:04 (Ref:1343749)

Here are my efforts from this years race, sorry no McDonalds sign!
Please tell me what you think as my monitor at work shows the pictures darker than they are on my pc at home and I would like to know which is showing a correct image.

My efforts Le Mans 2005

vs346 · 30 Jun 2005, 16:04 (Ref:1343953)

egor's pit-straight night shot made me think of the "Welcome" building (the white building just after the last stand that you walk under to get to the dunlop chicane). Did any other photog see that the bottom floor was converted into a disco club? Another photog and I were on our way up to Dunlop for the sunrise shot at 4:45 and we noticed that there were drunk people dancing up there! It was a good laugh. They had lights and everything, blue/red/purple. Real Hip!

kdr · 30 Jun 2005, 22:44 (Ref:1344306)

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Originally Posted by vs346

egor's pit-straight night shot made me think of the "Welcome" building (the white building just after the last stand that you walk under to get to the dunlop chicane). Did any other photog see that the bottom floor was converted into a disco club? Another photog and I were on our way up to Dunlop for the sunrise shot at 4:45 and we noticed that there were drunk people dancing up there! It was a good laugh. They had lights and everything, blue/red/purple. Real Hip!

yes i saw that as well, i think it was something to do with playstation. they hadn't gone to bed and we'd just started working again! i'm hoping for an invite next year...seemed to be THE place to be!

thejester · 1 Jul 2005, 02:21 (Ref:1344384)

Fantastic photos guys. Absolutely beautiful. Any chance (if it's not sacrilege) of getting any shrunk to avatar size?

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