Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Last saturday I drove up the road a piece to Clarksville, where they have a race complex that includes a go-kart course, a mud bog, and a 1/8 mile dragstrip, in addition to the 1/4 dirt oval that was featuring races that night. Clarksville is the home of Ft. Campbell and the 101st Airborne Div., and the town has grown spectacularly since I lived in the area 7 years ago. The night I was there the track owner annnouced that, because of a big new sponsorship deal, the track would now be called the 'something something Propane Speedway', and that starting next week cars would have to race with mufflers because of the new nearby subdivisions. At this track they don't let anybody, not even pit crew, onto the infield, except the officials and guys wearing serious looking camera gear. Honest. When I asked, they said 'You're a photographer? Sure.' The thing is, after the first hot lap of warmups, I realized I didn't wany my gear anywhere near that track because everything quickly gets covered with dirt, or the local red-clay variety of it, thrown up by the cars. So I've got three sets of five pictures each, no running cars. Yeah, I totally wussed. The Driver's meeting, starting here: http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/meeting1 Scenes from the Pit area, starting here: http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/pits1 Views of the spectators, starting here: http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/crowd1 Tech blab: M2 w/ 35 s'cron; pit pictures mostly APX 100, crowd pictures all P3200TMX, and meeting pictures all Foma 200 in D76 1:2, which works OK for me (now, if I could just keep from scratching the stuff). Arche