Tag: Le Mans

Black and White

This is my contribution to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Black and White prompt.

An abandoned crofters cottage at Elgol on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Easter 1980.

Intentional camera movement of trees in snow on the South Bruce Peninsula last winter.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: A River Runs Through It

The Houses of Parliament in London, England from the South Bank of the River Thames. In the very early 1980s I was one of the field testers for a new type of black and white film, Ilford XP1.

The Government Dock in the village of Colpoy’s Bay on the South Bruce Peninsula at sunrise last autumn.

A Photo a Week Challenge: Light and Dark

Team Bike entering the start/finish straight shortly before midnight during the Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle endurance race in April 1982.

Trees on snow covered farmland in Hatherton near Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England. One of my earliest photos dating back to the mid 1970s.

One Word Sunday

Mobile

I had a few ideas for Debbie’s One Word Sunday: Mobile prompt.

I forgot those ideas when I remembered that it’s the Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle endurance race in France this weekend.

So a trip to the archives for a photo of Team Bike entering the start/finish straight shortly before midnight during the 1982 Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle endurance race.

Tags 1982, 24 hour motorcycle race, David M's PhotoBlog, David Meredith, Ektachrome 200, Endurance, France, Le Mans, night, Olympus OM system, Olympus OM2n, OM Zuiko 50mm f/1.8, OWS, Team Bike

Photo Challenges

Backlit

This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Backlit prompt.

Backlit Canadian flag and Canada Geese at sunrise on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario.

Backlit Maple leaves on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario in spring.

Backlit ice formation on the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline at sunrise.

Backlit pit stop. A rider leaving the pits after a nighttime pit stop during the Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle endurance race in France.

Tags backlit, Canada Geese, Canadian flag, Colpoy's Bay, David M's PhotoBlog, David Meredith, formation, ice, Lake Huron, Le Mans, leaves, Maple, night, Photo a Week, pit stop, postaday, shoreline

Lens-Artists

Colourful April

This is my contribution to Amy’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Colourful April prompt.

I decided to look back at some of colourful April photos from my archives. One for each decade since the 1980s with as wide a variety of images as possible.

1980s. The first weekend of April 1982. I am at the Le Mans race circuit in France documenting Team Bike in their first 24 hour endurance races. A pit stop at dawn on Sunday morning.

1990s. A male Orange Tip Butterfly feeding on Bluebells in a cottage garden. Photographed at Faddiley near Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England.

2000s. A male American Robin on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario, Canada. Recently arrived in Ontario on spring migration and giving me an attitude.

2010s. Late April 2018 and the local bay is still frozen and partially snow covered. Colpoy’s Bay on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada at sunrise.

2020s. Moss and lichen on a limestone boulder on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada. Taken on a walk around the neighborhood last Saturday afternoon.

Tags American Robin, Bluebells, boulder, Colpoy's Bay, David M's PhotoBlog, David Meredith, frozen, Lake Huron, Le Mans, Lens-Artists, Lichen, moss, Orange Tip Butterfly, shoreline, sunrise, Team Bike

Month of Squares

Bright Streaks

This is my day 4 contribution to Becky’s April Squares on the theme of Bright.

A motion blurred motorcycle endurance racer at night. A competitor in the Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle endurance race in France. Taken 39 years ago this weekend.

Tags 1982, 24 hour motorcycle race, BrightSquare, David M's PhotoBlog, David Meredith, Endurance, Intentional Camere Movement, Le Mans, motion blur, night

Lens-Artists

Special Moments

This week Tina gives us the prompt Special Moments for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge.

A female Wilson’s Phalarope. I was on a section of the Middle Quill Lake shoreline looking for summer migrants when half a dozen Wilson’s Phalaropes flew in and started feeding around me. I lay down in the sand (and wildfowl poop) to photograph them at eye level. They completely ignored me, some of the birds came so close I couldn’t focus on them.

Having been experimenting with intentional camera movement recently this photo may be where it started for me. A competitor in the 1982 Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle endurance race enters the start/finish straight shortly before midnight. Far to abstract for the magazine editor but I liked the images and have been experimenting on and off ever since.

An adult Eurasian Blue Tit feeding young in a specially constructed nestbox in a garden in Hatherton near Nantwich, Cheshire. I documented the entire nesting cycle from the beginning of nest building to the empty nestbox after the last youngster had left. Extensively published I spent a week looking at a nestbox photo on the contents page of the Radio Times without recognising it as mine.

Storm clouds and light beams over Loch Arkaig, Scotland. I was in Scotland one autumn with the plan of doing lots of landscape photography. With almost constant rain I wasn’t getting a lot of photos until the end of day three when the rain stopped towards sunset. One of the photos from this evening was published worldwide by Olympus Japan and won a national photo contest on the theme of ‘The Beauty of Light.’

Tags 24 hour motorcycle race, adult, bird, clouds, Endurance, Eurasian Blue Tit, feeding, female, Le Mans, Lens-Artists, light beams, Loch Arkaig, nestbox, night, storm, Wilson's Phalarope, young

Photo Challenges

Motion

This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Motion prompt.

I quickly had a rather long “shortlist” of around a dozen images but wanted to go with four. That four changed twice before I decided enough was enough and stopped swapping photos.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: You Pick It! — Motion blurred wave on the Georgian Bay shoreline at sunrise.

Lens-Artists: Striped and Checked — Motion blurred trees using intentional camera movement.

Clouds moving across Colpoy's Bay at dawn — Motion blurred clouds due to a 346 second exposure of Colpoy’s Bay at dawn.

Tags clouds, dawn, Endurance, ICM, Le Mans, long exposure, motion blur, movement, night, panning, Photo a Week, postaday, racing, shoreline, sunrise, trees, wave