It is time to say goodbye, to wave a fond farewell to a endeavor that has been with me for so long…
Over the last 10 years I have been working hard to hone my skills at motorsport photography to a level that means I can produce a shot that makes me go, yes, that could make it into a magazine. For nigh on 10 years, I have searched the angles, the hardware, the settings, the circuits, the compositions, the frame rates, I have searched so very hard. For 10 hungry years I have managed to go to about 4 races a year and expected myself to reach a level of competency that rivaled the elite of the motorsport genre, 4 weekends a year to rival those that do it for 9 months of the year!
This year, it was a struggle, a complete and utter soul shattering struggle. The shots were simply not there from the public enclosures; the clarity without the fences, the depth from a low angle, the purity of the car and driver without distractions…Yes, I know that there are plenty of the atmosphere shots, the ones with heads and blurred fences and cars just visible, you even see the pros casting their net for those shots during a race weekend. But those shots were not what I wanted, they were not challenging enough…I wanted the pure race car visibly bending space with the ferocity of its efforts…I WANTED THAT!!
So, at Spa, I tried one last time:
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