Lydden Hill SEMSEC Meeting 27th October

[Box Brownie]

Hi All

First visit to Lydden Hill and I can vouch for the fact that this is nice circuit to go to.

Met up with Joffan for a brief chat and saw him in action, I think he only attracted one crash lol!

This was also the first outing with my 40D with the express purpose of trying the AI servo 'quality' suffice to say it performed way better than my 350D in that department. I took a shed load of images and have finished the cull (unusables [OOF/cut off frames/ camera shake etc], speculatives [those that may be worth another look], "others" i.e. those that are good but of limited merit or are simply dups from a sequence (e.g. plenty of panning shots of the various cars) and lastly the 1st choices (NB There may be some more but it is late!)

NB All taken with the Canon 70-300 IS USM

I have uploaded 17 to Flickr here http://flickr.com/photos/8068474@N05/sets/72157602746229436/

But here are a select few to embed here but feel free to llink to any of the others and post here if you want?
#1
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#2
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There were I think 4 incidents of which I only grabbed these two very mild ones ~ the others were significant tyrewall lovetaps.
#6
Unlucky 13
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2359/1780689351_0d16d21ef9_o.jpg

And this guy overcooked it but managed to limp back to the pits for at least one new tyre and when seen again had the For Sale sign in the window!!!
#7
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[Box Brownie]

Just realised this one was panned at 1/40s at 300mm ;)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2416/1780678511_e5fac1a5d8_o.jpg

EDIT: and I just realised this was the ninth image on the thread... maximum of eight, remember? Moderator.

Edit: Ooops! apologies. I got a little carried away.

Edit: changed some of the embeds to show this one and add a couple below

[gkwood]

Nice shots Lawrence looks like a nice place to shoot from must make a trip in 2008 , hope you had fun

[Box Brownie]

Nice shots Lawrence looks like a nice place to shoot from must make a trip in 2008 , hope you had fun

Thanks for looking Gary, glad you liked them and yes there are some nice angles and Joffan pointed out the key ones to me from which I took various shots.

The one thing that struck me about the track was that, though not every viewpoint lends itself to photography, you can see about 90% of the track and the 'action' from wherever you stand.

As for 2008 I really must try to keep an eye on Lydden, Thruxton, Goodwood for days/dates to visit and not forgetting Old Warden for the aviation.

[gkwood]

As for 2008 I really must try to keep an eye on Lydden, Thruxton, Goodwood for days/dates to visit and not forgetting Old Warden for the aviation.

I have been getting an E-mail from www.racedates.net/ with all the dates on it might be worth subscribing too , hope to catch you at a race meeting next year :)

[Box Brownie]

I have been getting an E-mail from www.racedates.net/ (http://www.racedates.net/) with all the dates on it might be worth subscribing too , hope to catch you at a race meeting next year :)

Gary

Thanks for the heads up about email subscriptions for racing dates, I will have to check that out.

EDIT: I cannot see any place to subscribe, did they remove it? Though the place/dates search is good!

Yes, all being well we will see each other somewhen & it was good to touch base with Joffan as it is nice to put a name to a face.

[Joffan]

Nice shots BB. Like the 9th shot too!

Hope I could point you into the right places but it's fairly self-explanatory. It's a very pretty place. And yeah, I only attracted the one incident into my feet!

Suppose I'll do my thread then.

[Box Brownie]

Altered my embedding to add these extras in the thread

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