CAPTURE NEW HORIZONS

Over the next few weeks we will be reviewing our year and what a year it has been.  We have traveled to the USA, Brazil, Japan, China, Bahrain, Qatar, France, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Portugal with the FIA World Endurance Championship and the European Le Mans Series.   However the highlight of 2014 we are starting with first are the cars we have driven and photographed this year. It started in March with the Aston Martin Vantage S V12 ( HERE ) which we had for two days to write a report for the official FIA WEC website and for the Silverstone programme.  This was an amazing car and a personal dream come true to have the exclusive use of an Aston Martin on the road for two whole days. Next up was a few days with the Audi R8 V8 ( HERE ) in and around Dunbar last May.  Again this was for a feature for the official FIA WEC website, which also appeared in the programme for the Chinese round in Shanghai.  In the summer I drove a Porsche 911 T...

Last month I posted some images of a feature I was writing for the FIA WEC Silverstone programme on the Aston Martin Vantage S V12.  Eight pages of the programme were dedicated for this feature and now that it has been published I can now share it here on the blog. Two days with the Vantage S was spent near the Aston Martin HQ at Gaydon, Aston Martin Racing HQ in Banbury and then up to Silverstone.  Day two was spent in the Malvern Hills getting some great dynamic shots of the car on some magnificent country roads.   John Rourke of Adrenal Media was taking the images while I was composing my prose while I drove the car around, but all of the shots here are ones that I took during a wonderful two days with an Aston Martin. THE BEST OF BRITISH Italy has Ferrari, Germany has Porsche and Britain has Aston Martin; these manufacturers are very much part of the national identity for each of these countries.  The Aston Martin brand, which celebrated its 100th anni...

Aston Martin are probably the coolest cars on the planet and if you follow this blog you will be aware that I had the privilege of driving a V12 Vantage S last week for a feature that will appear on the FIAWEC.com website and in the 6 Hours of Silverstone programme on Easter weekend. These are two of the car displays at the company HQ at Gaydon in Warwickshire where I picked up and dropped off the Vantage and I am sure you agree these are fabulous to look at. The shot below is of the actual car I drove for two days and I was quite sad to leave it here in the car park.  But boy was it a fun couple days.  Next month I'll share the other images and my experience of this fantastic car. Images taken on a Fujifilm X-Pro1 and Fujinon 18mm f2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert...

For the past two days I have been driving around in a road going Aston Martin for a website / print feature. This will be a Road Car / Race Car article for the programme for FIA World Endurance Championship 6 Hours of Silverstone event on the 18-20 April ( www.fiawec.com ) Myself and my photographer John Rourke have been running around Oxfordshire and Worcestershire with this beautiful Aston Martin V12 Vantage S and the results will be available next month.  This is a taster of part of the shoot in the garages at Silverstone.  Images taking on the Fujifilm X-Pro1 and Fujinon 55-200mm or Fujifilm X100 (image 3) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping -------...