.......and the final set of 5.
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.......and the final set of 5.
John....your images are tack sharp...what camera are you using?
Andrew
The camera I like best and use the most is a manual focus Leica M9P full-frame digital rangefinder with the following M lenses: 21mm Super-Elmar Asph., 24mm f2.8 Elmarit Asph., 35mm Summicron Asph., 50mm Summicron ( fourth generation ) and 90mm Summicron Apo-Asp.
Also use a Canon 5D Mk II with a 24mm f3.5 T/S Mk II manual focus, 35mm "L" f1.4, a manual focus Zeiss f2.0 100mm Macro-Planar for details, and a Canon 400mm f5.6 "L" for shooting moving cars on the track......always with a monopod.
Don't and won't ever own another zoom except on a pocket camera where IQ is really not that important as long as you get an image.
Respectfully,
JZG
.......next event.
After Tuesday's "Cars-on-the-Avenue" affair there's a bit of a hole on Wednesday, since the only "official" event is Anton Singer's Memorabilia Expo at the Embassy Suites hotel.
Therefore let's skip to the next popular public event on Thursday mid-day, the Pebble Beach Tour d'Elegance. As mentioned previously, this approx. 50-mile drive started out as a means to break potential ties in scoring on the field during Sunday's famous Concours, the thought being that the 5 points awarded to any car that completes the drive & successfully demonstrates the cars functions on the road will break potential scoring ties. The drive, which usually includes about half the cars entered in the Sunday Concours starts in the early AM at the Polo fields, meanders along 17-mile drive, then South on Highway 1, heads inland a few miles and winds up on the divided section of Ocean Avenue in "downtown" Carmel, where the cars are parked two abreast, nose-to-tail over the six or so blocks of Ocean Ave.
..............and there's the Rub. This is a free event, and with the price of tickets to the Sunday Concours escalating every year, it attracts more & more people every year and has long ago ceased to be the free glimpse of the cars, rather has turned into a free-for-all mob-scene with the few rent-a-cops haplessly standing by the cars, unable, untrained and / or unwilling to tell the hordes of the unwashed to please keep their distance. With my own eyes I have seen well-meaning grand parents plop their toddler grandchildren into the driver's seat of a multi-million $$ open car so Grammy can take a shot of the precious little sh*t with their iPad.
To avoid interacting with that segment of the public I usually try to find a spot along the exit Route to shoot from, and try to get images of the cars in motion, and to hear them run. Since this event takes place in Carmel past mid-day, the fog's usually gone by then and one can get good, sunny shots of the cars.
No, Jack's and Rolly's car ( the last two shots ) were not part of the Tour officially, but they were easily the two most photogenic subjects on the Avenue and richly deserve to be featured to capture and demonstrate the true spirit of the early 911 community.
PS: I've said this before, but I think this year was most likely the last time I'll subject myself to this particular experience..............the hassle and stress of it all is just not worth it to me any longer.
......and the next set.
The last car, the black '21 Duesenberg Coupe, is the very same car that some of us who regularly attend the Canepa Cars & Coffe Saturdays have featured previously in that respective thread.
JZG
...........and 5 more.
Car #2 ( please forgive the motion blur ) is an early attempt by the factory to create a 911 based Cabriolet, using this '64 Karmann built and modified Coupe with its top removed.
and the final set of 5.
As you can see, the crowds get pretty thick by the time the cars are ready to depart and if you want shots of the event you're well advised to secure a good spot and to not move from it under any circumstances, hence the same perspective and angle.
Photo #5 - Ferry Porsche's personal '70 911S sunroof-equipped "Company car" in Metallic Olive Green........quite beautiful in the dazzling sunshine, not so much so on Sunday in the fog on the 18th green at Pebble Beach.
Later today..........."Legends of the Autobahn" coverage.
Thank you for the wonderful photos, John. Any chance that you got one of the blue Siata 208S that was sitting in the paddock at Laguna Seca? It was my favorite roadster of the week. My phone camera photo doesn't do it justice.
Exceptional as always John..... keep'm come'n
John...
The visuals are so outstanding that my senses of smell and hearing are stimulated as well. The craftsmanship of your photos matches the craftsmanship of the cars.
John