Back to work tonight
After two days of exploring Qatar away from the track, we’re leaving shortly to return to Losail for the first race of the 2011 season. One of the interesting things about the MotoGP’s only night race is the opportunity to make images you simply can’t make any other time of the year. As riders were […]
Photo Diary: A Day Off In Doha
Not a lot of text today, just some photos from our visit to the Souk and its environs with a few comments here and there. We started the day off at around 11:30 by meeting Lauren and Randy at the souk and before long wound up at the pet section of the old market. The […]
Shopping In Doha
As host and master chef Andrew Wheeler shopped for groceries this afternoon, I was at liberty to browse the aisles for interesting products. When my wife and I lived in France, going shopping almost always involved stumbling across an amusingly-named product of some type. It’s quite challenging to market a product in a foreign culture […]
This is only a test.
It’s something like a dress rehearsal. There is no audience. There is hardly any one here other than the teams, and even they aren’t fully represented. No sign of Hervé Poncharal, for example. Only a handful of guys in IRTA shirts, very few Dorna people. A marshal here and there out on the track, a […]
Testing, testing, one, two, three…
Quite a day yesterday, partially because it just kept on going and didn’t end until 4 this morning. When I went to bed here in the living room, David and Jensen were still finishing their work. If you’re here because of an interest in MotoGP, make sure to check out their coverage at MotoMatters and […]
Yin and Yang —
David Emmett from MotoMatters and Jensen Beeler from Asphalt & Rubber have arrived and at the moment (3:13AM) we are all sitting at our computers, a sort of motorbike-related nerd fest. Jensen tried to sleep but couldn’t, so he got up to report on the Daytona 200, and David is updating MotoMatters, and I just […]
Our Man in Doha
Lufthansa’s route to Doha stops in Riyadh, and if you are not continuing on to Qatar you are warned sternly that the Kingdom has strict rules about bringing alcohol or magazines with ‘graphics’ into the country. The flight attendant’s speech was a wink-wink-nudge-nudge-say-no-more in German, then in English about those graphic magazines, the actual content […]
So Close and Yet So Far
I took one more trip to Yosemite on Sunday night because of the holiday and the fect that I’ll soon start traveling for the MotoGP season. I figured I might get one more opportunity to capture Horsetail Fall from a different perspective, hoping that the sun’s arc hadn’t passed beyond the narrow range required to […]
A Tunnel View Story
Ansel Adams said famously, “A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” Few spots I’ve visited make this as plain and as simple at the equally famous Tunnel View that looks over Yosemite Valley. As a fellow photographer said yesterday morning, “This shot has everything.”
The Magic of Science
For two weeks each February, the sun’s arc throws light on Horsetail Fall in a certain way. When the conditions are correct, the fall glows orange against the dark granite of El Capitan’s eastern face. This sight is a common subject for Yosemite photographers, and has been since Galen Rowell made the first color photograph […]