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Some wicked early summer lightning storms rolled through tonight. What a killer light show! Conditions were nearly perfect for shooting. The rain held off, it wasn't too heavily overcast down low that normally hides the strikes, and also the lightning was almost constant for quite a while! Wunderground.com showed thunder cloud tops at over 47,000 feet - wow!

I got 30 frames with lightning visible in about 1.5 hours, and here are the best five frames!

Rolex Grand-Am Daytona Prototypes @ Mid-Ohio

What a killer weekend of shooting the Rolex Grand-Am Daytona Prototypes roadracing at Mid-Ohio last weekend! Met some new fellow photogs and shot all over the track, including some new perspectives I'd never come up with before. Thanks Palmer! Also there were the Koni ST and GT classes as well as the Mustang Challenege series.

The results speak for themselves - I think shooting from the spectator side of the fences around Mid-Ohio, it doesn't get a whole lot better than this - check them out!

Wiseco John Penton GNCC in Millfield, Ohio

Attended and shot a few frames at the GNCC touring off-road series race at Sunday Creek Raceway in Millfield, Ohio this past weekend. The event is called the Wiseco John Penton. Some serious riding ability was present for the grueling 3 hour woods / motocross combined format in sticky humid air and under an unusually hot late spring Ohio sun. I was here to have fun first, and shoot second - so my usual thorough mix of angles and composition may be a bit lacking. Anyway, check out the images.

almostSummer 2009

I've reformatted the site from 800 pixels wide to 1024 pixels wide. Looking at my webstats, it shows very few users are still using a screen resolution of 800x600 or smaller - who doesn't have an LCD at this point, right? The new size makes for much less vertical scrolling and wastes less screen real estate. Hope you like.

Also - I've finally populated the sportMotorcycles section - check it out! Two wonderful works of British and Japanese aluminum and steel.

Spring 2009

Traveled to Daytona in March for a week of fantastic action photography at the Daytona International Speedway. I shot the AMA Superbike, Daytona SportBike, and MotoGT classes. I worked hard and shot all day, had a wonderful time, and produced some fantastic images! In fact about 70 of my images from the trip were picked up and published by motorsport.com!

Here is a direct link to my published images on their site - check them out here!

Motorsport.com has been around since 1994 - I'd wager less than 1% of households were using the internet daily back then! They have an amazing amount of news and photographs posted daily, from virtually every major race series around the world. Many of the photos are posted the same day. When you finish watching a Formula 1, MotoGP, Superbike, NASCAR, or IndyCar race - then check out their photo section to see the action from trackside! It really is amazing how many hundreds of photos they have from each day of each day of every race event.

If you want to see my AMA Superbike images from Daytona, I have them published in my imageGallery at 1200px and very high quality - much nicer to look at than the 700px images posted at motorsport.com. The gallery is formatted for a 1280x1024 regular 17" monitor or greater.

I've also (finally) put up a couple of quick pages on my two main sportMotorcycles. A couple of good lookin' scoots if I may say so...

Winter 2008

Putting up two great motorsports sets right now. Check out the imageGallery for some great new motorsports photography, including:

A sportbike stunt show put on by an amazing rider named Aaron Colton, who also happens to be only 17 years old. Amazing bike handling skills! This performance was shot inside the Lucas Oil Stadium, home field of the Indianapolis Colts NFL football team. First shoot with my fantastic new Canon 300mm f/4L, so expect some tight shots.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup series Bud Shootout from Daytona International Speedway on February 7th. Shot with the lowly Canon Rebel XS and a 70-200 f/4L + 1.4x TC

Fall 2008

Well it's been almost 4 months since my last update - way back in the beginning of August with shots from the AMA Superbike Races at Mid-Ohio. Been a while, eh?

I'm in the progress of posting a bunch of new images in the imageGallery including:

Shots from a Columbus Blue Jackets vs NY Ranger NHL Hockey Game at Nationwide Arena
Shots from the John McCain Presidential Campaign Rally that rolled into town aboard the Straight Talk Express. Shot on November 1st, 2008
Some pretty neat time lapse evening shots from around and above the local county fair this October. Had this shoot planned all summer and was able to make everything cooperate - weather, ride timing, and decent sunset skies.
A small assorted gallery of one off shots that don't belong anywhere else.
Three very cool night shots from downtown Pittsburgh. I can thank my employer on sending me to PA so many times I was able to scout all the best perches, just had to watch the sports schedule and the skies to be able to get these shots!

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