2010 Favorites
I’m kind of late on this one, but I was lacking internet at the start of the year! 2010 was my first year as a photographer so I had no idea how things would turn out. Luckily, they turned out great! I met Kenneth Lan at the Shannonville track, he’s the main man at Kplayground, a very awesome and chill dude i must say! Kenneth contacted me by email about my track photos and that’s where things went great, Ken was interested in the photos and wanted to have me come back to all the events to be Kplayground’s Track Day photographer, I gladly accepted!
Then, I contacted Mad Man Dan Cyr through email about Drift Day’s at Shannonville, and he led me to Son240sx.org. I was able to find out about all the Drift Day’s up in Shannonville now, and even a Gumball 3000 event. That’s where I first met Dan and Pat. I was expecting to talk with Pat and get to know him better, but his 86 has a fuel feed problem if I remember correctly so he seemed pretty frustrated. I got him to sign my Red Wings hat though, still rocking that thing everyday!
After all the track days and such, I decided to apply for a Media Pass for DMCC Round 6 at Mosport in Bowmanville. I got to say, regardless of Pats outcome, i still had a blast there. Just the energy of an actual event with the crowd made it so much better and the fact I was one of the guys in the yellow/orange vests just made me feel at home, you know? This year, i’m hoping to hit up at least 2 or 3 DMCC events. So expect to see more good things come this year! I also wanna kick off 2011 but picking up a new Camera next month. Hoping for a Nikon D90 then maybe you might see some short videos from me!
Some of my favorite photos of 2010, have a look at the rest on flickr as well!
Final Drift/Track Day!
Yes! It’s finally confirmed! There will be one more drift/track day at shannonville!
*** It’s OFFICIAL MEOW!***
So after a super awesome day of what was supposed to be the last drift day of 2010, I’ve had some requests for a “1 MOAR TIME!”
Pricing will be the same, BUT if you attended the Oct. 9th event, you get a $20 discount
What: Drifting and Lapping
When: Sunday, October 31st, 2010 (costumes optional, but highly recommended!)
Time: 9am to 5pm
Where: Shannonville, FABI Circuit
Cost: $120(prepay by Oct 22nd – $160(after) + $20 discount for those that came on Oct. 9th
If you miss prepay, you will not get the extra $20 discount!
*helmets mandatory*
Let’s see if we can top the last event!
To register and prepay, email me at wayneklee@gmail.com
I accept paypal (will cost you extra $5), emt or meet up for cash!
I want to see some rad costumes! It will make for great photos!
DriftOps October 9th Drift Day
This was a HUGE turn out! It was crazy! Not only was this day perfect but Pat Cyr also brought home the Championship at the Formula D Pro Am Competition!!!! This was by far the greatest day of the year. I was also able to get my drift cherry popped as well thanks to Peter Chrisikopoulos of the Drift Posse.
“I decided to mess around with new effects and what not, found a pretty cool tutorial on this. I’ll drop a link at the end”
“Getting lots of love from spectators as I go around with Peter. We hit about 200km/h on the straight, what up.”
“You can’t see the needle on the speedometer. That’s because it was spinning around, we were going atleast 6000km/h here.”
“It was my time for this to happen, I knew it would one day as I watched my friend Andrew endure the rocks and dirt at DMCC, My ear was actually cut open a bit.”
I focused a lot of my work on Peter’s car. He’s an amazing drifter who needs more credit. He was also nice enough to give me a ride for some in car shots, I had no idea what to take photos of so I just set my shutter speed to about 400 and just snapped anything. I really wasn’t even looking in the view finder a lot because of the helmet but I think I got some decent ones.
“Everyone was getting close to the wall on this last corner, I don’t know why. I know I’d crap my pants if I were them, that’s the corner of hell”
“We don’t know how this happened, A tire blew and we came back with the bumper dragging and missing part of the skirt.”
“My favorite shot of the event I got. I wished the car would of been a little bit more sharp but I still love it!”
“Battle scars, that’s all that’s needed to be said.”
Thanks to
- Wayne Lee
- Shannonville Raceway
- Peter Chrisikopoulos
- Everyone who let me use there helmet!
- Will Farrel
Links
Drift Day Set – http://www.flickr.com/photos/fryimaging/sets/72157625005133913/
Tutorial Effect – http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/bourne-blur/
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