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Subject: [Leica] Was What's in Your Camera Bag, Now OT Maxton Mile Land Speed Race
From: profmason at yahoo.com (John Edwin Mason)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:36:21 -0700 (PDT)

> Charlotte Geary's bags (packed and unpacked) and see just how she 
> manages to cart a Whole Lotta Stuff around. If you're interested, 
> you can check it out here:
> http://community.livejournal.com/photographers/16546343.html

Makes you appreciate the Leica aesthetic -- the M aesthetic, that is.

Spoken by someone whose editors do not appreciate that aesthetic, who 
therefore spent the weekend humping two DSLRs, various lenses -- from very 
short to very long -- plus flashes, batteries, cards, cables, etc., at not 
one but two different races last weekend, and who is now very tired.

Fortunately, one of the races, the Maxton Mile land speed race, more than 
worth it.? A real hoot.

Where else are you going to find a '51 Crosley Super Sport (looks like a 
Bugeye Sprite, only smaller), a '73 Citroen SM (on nitrous), a vintage 
sprint car, a supercharged land speed roadster, an ex-Nascar Chevy, a 
street-legal '94 Mitsubishi Evo II that runs 237.63 in the standing mile, 
and a '72 Cadillac Eldorado (that doesn't run even half of 237.63) all on 
the same track?

See 'em here:

http://johnedwinmason.typepad.com/jem_racing_photography/

--John

******************************
John Edwin Mason, Photography:
http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com
Charlottesville and Cape Town




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