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Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-29-2019, 12:31 AM
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We were down in Anza-Borrego last weekend for the "superbloom," accompanied by supertraffic. But once the crowds dispersed there were lots of good photo opps. I walked up one trail with a mid angle zoom, and then back with the macro lens (Pentax 100mm). Here is the macro segment. That big ugly caterpillar will be a sphinx moth. There were tens of thousands of these things all over the desert.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-31-2018, 10:17 AM
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Dear members,
Its been a while since I've been sharing my adventures and images over here so before 2018 ends up I wanted to share THE adventure of 2018, THE step forward and THE dream becoming true.
As you know I get some media passes for some motorsport events and I do cooperate with some websites and so on, but the past August I've got an amazing call and it was to join a friend of mine to cover the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix as an accredited Photographer so... I took the chance!
This is a big step on everyone's life but I've been following Formula 1 for more than 3 decades (probably around 35 years now) and I do love that sport so it was a big step. I felt a lot of pressure to perform, and was anxious, nervous and excited at the same time those 4 days photographing everything I could.
In the past and also this 2018 I've been working at the Monaco Grand Prix but covering the Formula 2 event, and even tho I love it and I like Formula 2, Formula 1 is a big step.
The experience itself was super fun, I really loved it, but as said before I felt a lot of pressure and it was stressing in the way I wanted to perform and it was my very first time at that Circuit which means I knew nothing about acces, where could I go, where couldn't I go,I was asked by whatssapp to photograph this and that every day (like the new aero in some cars etc....), etc....
Here I post some images of that event (I also did cover the Formula 2 races so will open a new post about that).
 IMGP4181-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
 IMGP4567-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
 IMGP4469-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
First big thing accomplished, got Kimi Raikkonen smiling right at me!
 _IMG3435-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
 _IMG3500-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
Eau Rouge is well known everywhere but you can't describe it by watching it on tv, this is like a wall when you are at the bottom! It is really worthy going and seing it live.
 _IMG4160-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
I have to recognize I've struggled a bit in the fastest parts of the track with my K3 following the speed of the cars, here specially. No problem with the F2 cars but F1's are super fast and the AF in the K3 wasn't the best ever
 _IMG5061-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
On Qualyfing on saturday it started to rain and being at Turn 1 I've seen some cars loosing the track, yet no crashes and this image is one I really like
 _IMG6644-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
Luckily later on the Sun came out
 _IMG7710-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
 _IMG7836-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
As said before I was a bit lost not having been there before and not knowing much about the timings or accesses, but I gave a try to the Start Grid just in case I could access and then there i was (this image is from the garages tho)
 _IMG7896-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
 _IMG7954-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
Grid images
 _IMG8020-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
 _IMG8036-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
 _IMG8070-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
Once here I went to the press room to share my images with my editor so he could have fresh recent images to publish with the race news, and I had to choose where to start the race IF at Turn 1 which I thought I liked more, or at Eau Rouge where I thought if there is no accidents would be a better image to get the whole field of cars. So I went there and there was a big shunt at Turn 1 I missed by re-thinking too much.
Is not that I want anybody to get involved in a crash or anything, its just it happened and I had the chance to be there but decided to go somewhere else.
The Safety Car was deployed immediatelly
 _IMG8189-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
And later on Vettel pulled away to win the race
 _IMG8438-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
 _IMG8624-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
 _IMG8731-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
 _IMG8936-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
 _IMG8978-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
 _IMG9037-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
 _IMG9197-2 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
I hope you like them.
Shutter speeds have been different ones, and I've been using my K3 and K5 plus Sigma 17-50mm f2.8, Sigma 100-300mm f4 and pentax 50-135mm f2.8 mainly as my lenses.
Would I repeat? YEAH no doubt about that!
Hopefully 2019 will bring on another F1 race at least, and I really want to do the 24H of Le Mans since I was there in 2010. Let's see if we can chase that dream also!
Hope you like the images,
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Forum: Pentax Lens Articles
04-11-2010, 06:29 AM
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This explains very well a concept that many have problems with. Now, if only every newbie finds and reads this article a lot of wasted verbiage would be averted!
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