This summer I was contacted by the FIA’s magazine about shooting a feature on a land speed record attempt out at the Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah. For those of you snow people that don’t know what the FIA is, it’s basically FIS but for auto racing. I’m a car geek. I’ve been one for a while, but I have yet to pursue any real opportunities photographing auto racing as I wanted to keep that fun part of life, just that. Fun and not work. This opportunity seemed quite mellow and maybe a good slide into that side a bit so I gave it a go.
I was pumped to get out on the salt again, when I went out last year for Speed Week, it was a really cool experience but this time around I was shooting a feature, giving me a bit of direction this time around. Another thing that was pretty fun was to be out there at sunset and sunrise, with access to these crazy machines. I had never seen cars like this in person, and had no idea what 457mph looked like. It was a trip for sure to see cars going that fast and trying to keep up with my eyes, let alone my camera!
After sending in the photos I got a response telling me that the planned 4 page feature was being bumped to a 6 pager since they liked the photos, and I was stoked to hear that! I then got the next email with the link to the magazine online and found that it had been now bumped to 12 pages. I even managed to get a photo of my own truck in the story on accident. I left a photo I took of my truck at sunset on the salt in the edit. Turns out they wanted it and my little truck is now in an internati0nal publication. Pretty cool huh?
Check out the story here at the FIA’s website.
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If you’ve seen my twitter posts in the past week, I spent a few days on the Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah shooting the FIA Bonneville Shootout land speed record attempt with 400+mph cars! For those that don’t know, the FIA is the governing body for race series like F1 (Formula 1) and the WRC (World Rally Championship). I ran across all sorts of people, but the mechanics seemed to be the most colorful out of all that was there. This guy (I can’t remember his name for the life of me) was pretty cool and with that beard, I had to take a few photos. What you see is what you get out there on the salt. Salt, lots of it. Wide open nothingness.
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1/125 sec / f11 / ISO 100 / 170mm / Nikon D3 / Nikon 70-200 2.8 VR
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The Bonneville Salt Flats is a place I’ve been to a few times, however never while any racing was going on. It was quite the scene, very different from any auto race I’ve been to in the past, no frills, just insanely fast cars, as many RV’s as you’d see at Burning Man, vintage cars, vintage people, and…rednecks, lots and lots of rednecks.
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It had been about two years since I was last out at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, UT. A lot of my friends are involved in the race scene out there but with the amount of travel I’ve done in the Summer the past two years, it’s been tough to get out. A week ago my friend Stan Evans was heading out to shoot the SCCA TDI Cup for Red Bull and the movie “Say My Name” as professional freeskier Grete Eliassen was driving in the event so I went along to help out and shoot a little bit.
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Nothing else, just this photo. Shot it a few weeks ago out in the garages at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, UT because it just looked cool.
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