Preview: Scenes From “The Big Go” At Indy
With more than 2,000 images from the marathon that was the 57th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis to wade through, paring them down to create a highlight gallery – or galleries plural in this case – will certainly be a time-consuming project. Until then, here are just a handful of images captured throughout [...]
That Other Super Bowl: Part Dos
Images from the 2011 running of the NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing at the Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Ill.
Some High Quality H2O
Over the weekend, I had the very rare chance to be nothing more than a spectator at a racing event to witness the thunder on water of the Lucas Oil Drag Boat Series for the first time. But as usual, I just couldn’t resist the temptation to lug a camera and lens with me and [...]
Eastbound And Down
VIEW GALLERY SLIDESHOW My latest travel excursion has taken me to the far east coast, with a stop in southern Maryland for the NMCA Muscle Car Nationals at the downright impressive Maryland International Raceway, followed by a scenic drive down to Virginia Beach for a two-day engine build shoot at Virginia Speed. A rather massive [...]
Just Horsin’ Around
Here’s another set of images pulled from the vault, these from two separate dates in 2003 and 2007, taken at the Ellis Park thoroughbred horse racing facility in Henderson, Kentucky. These were taken with what we would now consider “old school” Nikon D1X and D100 camera bodies. I’d like to think my skills behind the [...]
Southern Indiana Classic
Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to shoot my first competitive running race for the folks at ChronoTrack, who manufacture event timing and tracking systems and wanted a collection of journalistic images for their website to highlight their hometown event. With mostly free reign to roam and cover the event from all sorts of [...]
Unleashing Indy!
Here’s another one that’s finally getting some love here on the blog: the NHRA Unleashed debut at the O’Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis. This race, err show was recorded for a PINKS-like television show that ran on the FSN network over over the winter. Click here to view a gallery of images from the event.
NMCA Closes The Gates On Gateway
My final racing event of the season and the final race for the foreseeable future of the Gateway International Raceway just outside St. Louis was the NMCA World Finals, which bookended the 2010 NMCA campaign. The Finals were moved to St. Louis from Memphis Motorsports Park, which shut down following the 2009 running of the same [...]
Motorin’
In the summer of 2009, with some time to kill one evening and my buddy Ryan’s Suzuki Hayabusa and Harley Davidson at my disposal, a little impromptu photoshoot ensued. Lighting included a single Alien Bee B800 and a Nikon Speedlight fired via Pocket Wizard. To check out a few other images, click here.
Sun Sets On NMRA Season
The NMRA’s annual World Finals at the scenic Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky is the largest all-Ford drag racing event in the country, drawing record crowds and racers from all corners of the nation. This year’s event didn’t disappoint, with new national records set in several categories and exciting championship battles that [...]
NHRA in Hotlanta!
I recently shot the NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Southern Nationals down in Commerce, GA where I learned first hand why they’ve always called it “Hotlanta.” Although providing semi-live coverage and updates from the track, I was pretty focused on using all of the available time that I wasn’t slapping away at my laptop keys to [...]
Muscling Through The Midwest
Back in May, I took a short 2.5 hour drive north to the small town of Mount Meridian, Indiana, site of the scenic Putnam Park Road Course that would serve as the opening day for the first annual Midwest Muscle Car Challenge. While I’d never had the opportunity to shoot at a road course, years of browsing ALMS and GrandAm galleries had given me a few ideas to tinker with.
The Big Bad Wolfe
In mid-March, I had the opportunity to shoot the cover and profile images for Drag Illustrated magazine. Editor Wes Buck had chosen chassis builder and ultra tough racer David Wolfe for the cover, who just a couple of weeks prior had put on a performance for the ages at the Radial vs. The World event [...]
RAD!
In the fall of 2008 and spring of 2009, I spent some occasional evenings at a local BMX track that took me back to my youth when I spent every waking hour and then some trying to kill myself on my Mongoose. With the track being no more than a mile from home and practices [...]
Flying South
I recently headed down south for a couple of weeks to assist my good friend Chris Simmons with his drag racing photography biz at a couple events: ‘The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia’ in Cecil, GA, and the IHRA Mardi Gras Nationals in Baton Rouge, LA. Below are images of NHRA Pro Stock [...]
Sports Walls Part Deux
As promised, another set of MLB caps along with a couple of NFL helmets. Click images for 1680×1050 widescreen desktop wallpaper. More to come, stay tuned…
Thunder and Carnage on the Ohio
Since I was knee high to a grasshopper, I’ve been fascinated with the sights and sounds of the unlimited hydroplanes that have visited our city every summer for the last 31 years as part of the Freedom Festival. During my youth, this series – full of history – was positioned in the upper echelons of [...]
Doktor Kaboom!
For this shoot, I was assigned to snag a single feature image from the traveling science variety show of veteran performer David Epley, affectionately known as Doktor Kaboom. Epley, who has been writing, performing, and directing original comedy for 20 years, has worked his way from schools and small events to performing his act some [...]
NMRA Blazing a Trail to Columbus
Back in early September I covered the NMRA event at National Trail Raceway just outside Columbus, Ohio for the folks at StangTV, and in my quest to catch up up on blogging some of the my older material in between that of current material, I’m finally getting to this one. Unlike my ADRL coverage which [...]
Sports Walls Part One
Several months back I did a small shoot with my good friend and self-confessed sports nut Jordan Baer involving some of his vast collection of sports memorabilia, and in the process, had the idea to shoot detail images of some of the logos on the baseball caps he had spread around the room. At the [...]
May day in Speedway
As a born and bred Hoosier and a nearly lifelong fan of open wheel racing, the month of May is truly a time to behold. And although raceday is a magical happening, sitting amongst a sea of 300,000 rabid fans and the sight of 33 cars storming down the front stretch 3-wide, an equally enjoyable [...]
KBAR
I’m working on pulling images from my archives to catch up on blog posts, and so this will be the first of many from past months and years. My subject for this shoot was my friend and amateur cyclist Knate Bartholomew, who obliged to stand in for my attempt at an athletic, semi-environmental portrait. While [...]
Court summons
I was recently contacted by the editors of Evansville Business Magazine for a portrait assignment of Vanderburgh County Superior Court Magistrate Jill Marcrum for their “Back Talk” section. The plan was en environmental portrait, with a couple options of locations and poses. We scheduled the shoot after hours when the various courtrooms would be empty [...]
The (soon to be) Barnett’s
Austen and Megans’ wedding engagement shoot in New Harmony, IN in early October. full gallery can be viewed here.
