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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Prelude to the Dream 2009

A Few Covers

Various Shots from 2009

Chris Wilson Wreck DTWC 2009

Chris Wall Wreck at Wheatland 2010



May 29, 2010; 11:13:24 PM; Wheatland, Mo., USA; The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series running the 18th Annual Dart Show-Me 100 event at the Lucas Oil Speedway. Mandatory Credit: (thesportswire.net)

Sharpie 500: Bristol Motor Speedway



Aug 22, 2009; 11:26:57 PM;Bristol, TN, USA; NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race for the Sharpie 500 at the Bristol Motor Speedway. Mandatory Credit: (thesportswire.net)

Jimmy Mars: DTWC Lawrenceburg

Here’s a shot of Jimmy Mars coming out of turn four. Cars zoom by pretty close, and it made for some heart pounding shots.



Oct 17, 2009; 2:57:30 PM; Lawrenceburg, IN., USA; The 29th Annual Dirt Track World Championship dirt late models 50,000-to-win event at the Lawrenceburg Speedway. Mandatory Credit: (thesportswire.net)

Masking more than one photo.



This shot is a combination of 4 long exposures and combined in photoshop. Then I masked out unwanted areas of each one until I came up with what I was after.



Here I used several images with different exposures and masked out the shadows of each image to get this final result. Some call it HDR. I call it a huge file to work with.

Rain (share your 09' experiences)

I was browsing some of my Speedweeks shots key-wording and such when I ran across this picture of rain coming down at Volusia. It made me think about some of the rain-outs or rain delays we had this year. The one that sticks out the most has to be the Knoxville Nationals. Rained for days. My first time there and I thought it rained everyday in Iowa. Beautiful racetrack and it turned out to be a great show. Oh yeah, this was the first time I witnessed jet dryers on a dirt track. :)

Christmas Picture Must See

Ok, guys and gals, I’m the type that goes out does the last minute Christmas shopping. During my adventure of making my stops I happened to run into Santa Clause. I’m glad to see Santa has upgraded his way of delivering gifts to the children. This photo was taken with my camera phone and we know how the quality is. I’ll say no more about that.
I want everybody to have a special Merry Christmas, and best wishes from thesportswire.net.

A Rose For My Wife



Softened in Photoshop. Used a 60mm Nikkor Micro lens.

2010 TheSportsWire by Design

A few of my photoshop designs.

PRI 2010