1988 Canadian Grand Prix
Senna wins from pole after taking Prost at the final chicane before the straight. I'm not 100% certain, but I believe that pass was the first time Senna overtook Prost on-track since becoming team mates; the stage was for one of the most bitter rivalries in F1. Results here.
Photos taken with Nikon FG and Sigma 70-210mm zoom; scanned from (poor) prints and (over-) processed with Photoshop. I really need to scan the negatives with a good film scanner and try again, now that I actually know a little about using Photoshop.
More F1 photos coming soon; I've already posted my 1999 photos (see below), and still have several years left to sort through, including stills (by Oliver) and video (by me) shot in the Sauber garage during the 1994 qualifying sessions. Also tons of stuff from the CART races at the Meadowlands, and a few vintage events at Watkins Glen (the GT40 reunion!) if I can find them.
Labels: Motor Sports, Photography
1999 Canadian Grand Prix
Race won by Mika Hakkinen (ahead of Fisichella and Irvine), on his way to his second consecutive World Championship. The last three World Champs (Villeneuve, Hill and Schumacher) crashed into the same wall at the exit of the chicane coming onto the pit straight. Our seats were in the grandstands after the hairpin, where the cars were hitting 4th gear. Results here.
Photos taken with Nikon FG and Sigma 70-210mm zoom; images scanned from prints.
Labels: Motor Sports, Photography
Cedary Key, FL - May 2005
Photos from our visit with Oliver & Doreen this past May. Linda & I drove down in the Jeep, leaving Friday morning, stopping overnight in Knoxville, TN, then a night in Panama City to visit with Sara, Landon and Leona, before pulling into Cedar Key on Day 3.
Faraway Inn is awesome, and the village of Cedar Key is so laid back you soon forget it's Florida. The biggest tourist attraction is that there are no tourist attractiions. Did some boating, explored some of the protected islands, did a little stargazing, smoked a lot of woobie. Then we drove back, leaving on Friday morning, overnighting in Asheville, NC, arriving home early Saturday evening.
Trip Stats
Total mileage: 3,177
Driving time: 51.5 hours
Avg. speed: 61.6 mph
Max. Speed: 90.3 mph
Coffee: 28.7 gallons
Labels: Photography, Travel
Great Britain & Ireland - March 2004
New York to London to Mells to Cardiff to Clevedon to Bristol to Dublin to Limerick to Sligo to Colraine to Carlingford to Dublin to Edinburgh to Glasgow to Ingleton to Cheltenham to Forest Row to London to New York. In 12 days.
Photos from our adventure are online.Humping a video camera, two digital cameras and a laptop all over the British Isles netted over 500 photos and 3 hours of video. Someday I will sort through it and post more. Someday.
Labels: Photography, Travel
Banff National Park, Canada - September 2000
This was my first (and so far only) trip to the Rockies. Banff is a perfect 10 on the Heaven-On-Earth scale. Images were taken with 35mm (Canon EOS Rebel 2000) and digital (Canon Powershot A50).
Labels: Photography, Travel
Hello World.
This wil be the third Blogger-based site for me - I initially built one for my astronomy notes (Epistolae Astronomicae), and more recently I converted the News & Press section of CyroBaptista.com over to Blogger to make it easier for Cyro and Eleonora to update. Now I'm starting to get the hang of it, and want to dig deeper into the XML and CSS templates to see if I can't come up with something more original.
I'm presently immersed in the study of stellar evolution, hence the name of this blog. I am an Amateur Astronomer; I'd call myself an Amateur Astrophysicist but for the fact that I really don't know shit about physics except at the popular, non-mathematical level.
Not sure what I'm going to use this blog for. Maybe family news, maybe political screeds, maybe photography. Maybe to replace my current web site, which really isn't much other than a bunch of links. Oooh, there's an original idea... links, and comments about those links.
We'll see how it goes.
