Summernats 2011

Happy New Year to all.  Sorry this next blog has taken soooo long to come!!  My new years resolution is to keep this blog updated more regularly!!  Through work with the ACT Rural Fire Service I have been working to get their blog up and running http://www.actrfs.blogspot.com/ 

The weekend after new year I attended the annual Summernats held here in Canberra.  It has been running for 24 years and not being a petrol head myself had never attended.  I was asked to be a fire marshall at the burn out area which I did and it was a great photo opportunity. 

From a photography perspective, I shot these shots using my 70 - 200mm IS f2.8 with a 2 x adapter because I was about 50 meters away.  

Miss Summernats 2011

The band that was the entertainment for the evening was The Angels - 'Am I Ever Going To See Your Face Again?'

The shots of the evening entertainment were shot from about 30 meters away and the light was pretty low.  I used my 70-200mm again all the way open at f2.8 to get a fast enough shutter speed to try and keep the shots sharp. 

The next post won't take so long to write!!