Photography, Racing & Random Thoughts…
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Anything and everything automotive.
Cavallino Rampante Dopo il Caffè
May 18th
Prancing horse after coffee… Ferrari 458 Italia, captured during the Cars & Coffee event in Irvine, CA – 5/18/2013. (image © 2013 Victor Varela)
Camera: Canon 5D MKII
Lens: Canon 24 – 105mm 4.0 L
ISO: 100
Sec: 1/60
F/stop: 7.1
Lightroom: Exposure, saturation, highlights, shadows and other Lightroom 4 magic.
In Memoriam, Gilles Villeneuve.
May 8th
Gilles Villeneuve… Ricordava Sempre
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[video source: YouTube]
In Memoriam, Ayrton Senna.
May 1st
Ayrton Senna da Silva, March 21, 1960 – May 1, 1994
“These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.”
- Ayrton Senna
Home Theme – PLAY:
Remastered version of the tribute originally released in 2010.
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[music: "Home theme" from the movie, "Senna" iTunes]
[video source: YouTube]
Ford GT40
Apr 3rd
Black – Ford GT40, captured during the Cars & Coffee event in Irvine, CA – 3/30/2013. (image © 2013 Victor Varela)
Camera: Canon 5D MKII
Lens: Canon 24 – 105mm 4.0 L
ISO: 100
Sec: 1/100
F/stop: 6.3
Lightroom: Exposure, saturation, highlights, shadows and other Lightroom 4 magic.
Electric Blue
Apr 2nd
Electric Blue, Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4, captured during the Cars & Coffee event in Irvine, CA – 3/30/2013. (image © 2013 Victor Varela)
Camera: Canon 5D MKII
Lens: Canon 24 – 105mm 4.0 L
ISO: 100
Sec: 1/60
F/stop: 8
Lightroom: Exposure, saturation, highlights, shadows and other Lightroom 4 magic.
330 GTC
Apr 1st
Ferrari 330 GTC, captured during the Cars & Coffee event in Irvine, CA – 3/30/2013. (image © 2013 Victor Varela)
Camera: Canon 5D MKII
Lens: Canon 24 – 105mm 4.0 L
ISO: 100
Sec: 1/60
F/stop: 9
Lightroom: Exposure, saturation, highlights, shadows, onOne B&W preset and other Lightroom 4 magic.
The Urban Outlaw
Mar 30th
Magnus Walker – Porsche 911 72STR 002, captured during the Cars & Coffee event in Irvine, CA – 3/30/2013. Magnus is standing in the background, 4th from the right.
(image © 2013 Victor Varela)
Camera: Canon 5D MKII
Lens: Canon 24 – 105mm 4.0 L
ISO: 100
Sec: 1/80
F/stop: 8
Lightroom: Exposure, saturation, highlights, shadows and other Lightroom 4 magic.
Read more about this Urban Outlaw at magnuswalker911.com
Watch the documentary here.
Carolla’s Datsun
Mar 29th
Adam Carolla negotiates Turn 4 in his 1970 Bobby Allison BRE Datsun 510, during the HMSA Spring club event at Laguna Seca on March 24, 2013.
(image © 2013 Victor Varela)
Camera: Canon 40D
Lens: Canon 70 – 200mm 2.8 L
ISO: 100
Sec: 1/320
F/stop: 7.1
Lightroom: Exposure, saturation, highlights, shadows and other Lightroom 4 magic.
Tazio’s Tipo C
Mar 28th
Peter Giddings points the 1935 Scuderia Ferrari – Alfa Romeo Tipo C 8C-35 into the apex at Turn 11, during the HMSA Spring club event at Laguna Seca on March 24, 2013.
(image © 2013 Victor Varela)
Camera: Canon 5D MKII
Lens: Canon 24 – 105mm 4.0 L
ISO: 200
Sec: 1/50
F/stop: 22
Lightroom: Exposure, saturation, highlights, shadows and other Lightroom 4 magic.
Read more on Peter’s last remaining Tipo C 8C-35 here.
Veyron
Mar 21st
Bugatti Veyron, captured outside the Cars & Coffee event in Irvine, CA – 3/16/2013.
(image © 2013 Victor Varela)
Camera: Canon 5D MKII
Lens: Canon 24 – 105mm 4.0 L
ISO: 200
Sec: 1/50
F/stop: 7.1
Lightroom: Exposure, saturation, highlights, shadows and other Lightroom 4 magic.
356
Mar 16th
1957 Porsche 356 4 cam, captured outside the Cars & Coffee event in Irvine, CA – 3/16/2013.
(image © 2013 Victor Varela)
Camera: Canon 5D MKII
Lens: Canon 24 – 105mm 4.0 L
ISO: 200
Sec: 1/50
F/stop: 7.1
Lightroom: Exposure, saturation, highlights, shadows, converted to black & white and other Lightroom 4 magic.
Where They Raced: Episode 3 Road Races – part 2
Mar 12th
Where They Raced Episode 3 Road Races part 2 from Sunny & Mild Media on Vimeo.
Los Angeles is famous for its orange groves, bathing beauties, sunshine and Hollywood blockbusters. Long forgotten is that it was also home to more auto racing and innovation than anywhere else in the world.
With hundreds of vintage photos, lost archival footage and revealing interviews, WHERE THEY RACED is the documentary series that reunites the ghost tracks of Los Angeles with the cars that ran them and gets the families, historians and experts to tell the tales that give this history a victory lap by preserving these fading memories.
- Where They Raced.
