OK, let’s get this blog on the road – literally. Since my friend started selling prints of my photos on her market stall this is the most popular one by far. First some background. When I left the UK last year I had been working for my then employer for nearly 10 years, and when I left I was given a fantastic present – a ticket to the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona earlier this year. Obviously I took my camera, and from my vantage point in the stands attempted to take the kind of photos that you see on all the F1 websites and in the magazines, you know the ones where the car is in sharp focus but the wheels and the background are slightly blurred so you get a sense of movement. I must have taken nearly 100 photos of fast moving cars over the 2 days I was there, and this was the best one. The rest were either blurred, off target (car moving faster than the camera!) or someone waved a flag or stood up in front of me just at the wrong moment – especially true when it was Alonso going past, given the fantastically partisan nature of the crowd.

So there you have it, the first featured photo on my blog, I await your comments (good or bad)…

Taken with a Nikon D1X and a Nikon 18 – 200mm VR lens at 150mm. Shutter speed 1/400th sec, Aperture f/7.6

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