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August 20, 2012
This past weekend the American LeMans Series (ALMS) was at Elkhart Lake. This form of racing in 1991 was called the International Motor Sports Associations (IMSA) Camel GT and it was big racing!
Camel cigarettes sponsored the series and some of the major car manufacturers were really into this form of racing in a big way. Dan Gurney had the Toyota Eagles with Juan Manuel Fangio II in one car and P J Jones in the other. Geoff Brabham and Chip Robinson were driving the Nissans The Bud Light Jaguar of Davey Jones was amazing and Wayne Taylor in the Chevy Intrepid also tried to keep up the pace.
The days of Porsche winning everything by 1991 was done since Toyota, Nissan, Jaguar and Chevy were now racing with huge budgets.
Enjoy a few memorable photographs from the Nissan Grand Prix at Road America won by Davy Jones in his Jaguar on August 25, 1991.
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August 13, 2012
Two weeks ago in blog #19, I had a story about myself and the band Queen with some color photographs that I took on March 7, 1975. The response was wonderful from all of you and I appreciate the comments as always. It made me dig into the archives a little further to find the black and white images from that show for you to enjoy.
We are spoiled in the digital world as a photographer in that we can switch from color to black and white very easily. In 1975 you had to switch rolls of film!!!!!!!!!! In digital, we can also change the ISO or film speed quickly and from photo to photo. Wow, would that have been nice in 1975 because we were all using push processing on our film to get a faster ISO or as we called it back then, ASA. I had to do special things in the darkroom in the old days and it was fun but you did not know what you were going to get right away like we do now. It took a while to see what you photographed in the old days.
I miss the smell of fixer and stop bath in the darkroom and it was like being a magician sometimes. The darkroom was a fun place to play and work with film, paper and chemicals. Black and white versus color is like digital versus film. They both work but are very different and people still argue over film being better and color being better than black and white.
What do you think and which do you like better, film versus digital or color over black and white? It is a very personal choice I think and it will be interesting to see what you think.
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August 6, 2012
The week of August 26, 1973 I was thinking of college and my pursuit of an associate degree in photography at MATC. Before school would begin, I thought a nice break was in order.
Friends were camping at the Jaycee campground close to Elkhart Lake's Road America that weekend and invited me to come and bring a tent and any high powered stereo gear I had since they had an audio power competition I believe you would call it. I owned a Phase Linear 400 watt power amplifier and that is the real reason I was invited! My Phase Linear had been tweaked and could put out about 500 watts of power, 250 a channel and it rocked. It produced very LOUD, clear sound and I believe we won the competition pairing it with my McIntosh C26 Pre amp and a friend's HUGE Klipshorn speakers!
This was also the time for the Can-Am at Elkhart Lake's Road America. Seeing and hearing Mark Donahue in the "Monster" Porsche 917-30 was amazing. That car was so beautiful and had so much power with Mark driving. No one had a chance unless it broke down, which it did not, and he won. The black Shadow cars were also one of the other wonderful sights to see that weekend.
After that break I was ready for college!
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