Rally's car:

 

Wow. Very nice shots, folks. This one's not quite a sunset, but I do like the way the sun breaks over my girl and the MINI...

More to come after the next road trip.

 

Hoping for decent sky action to go with what's going on here!

 

Kurt,

I like the line-up of the hoods.

Do you have any more MMW photos?

Dave

 

I do.
But compared to everything you post... they suck!
Will be spending more time looking through the viewfinder than... well I hope not!
Okay, one more.

Dave, I know you're hoping I'll post my best shot for the Landscape theme here...and be disqualified.

 

...the night after about 60 really nice Mini Coopers leave town, we get a nice sunset. :impatient

And this morning's sunrise was nice too.

Both of these were "enhanced".


These are straight from the camera.

 

With a little more processing, I guess this is worth posting.

 

I took this one on the roof of my MINI, moon roof reflecting sunset, looks a bit like water.

 

Kurt: That purple classic photo turned out great. You did a good job with a tough situation (shooting cars parked in a row in a parking lot) and your post processing is nicely done too.

Just a general observation: I'm glad you had a chance to shoot MMW. You did some solid work with the photos from the event.

Richard: It looks like a huge pool.

 

Thanks Dave. I'm learning by mistake with a new program. It's sort of fun cheating a marginal picture into something worth posting.

Solid work... I was extremely biased in what I shot. Had to make an effort to not hide behind the camera, and talk to some really pleasant people from far away.

My only gripe was the lack of a sunset!

 

And just to make sure I kept it MINI related heres a photo of Cooper St that I found while out taking photos

 

That's a nice pool, OctaneGuy.

Please tell me you wiped it down for the picture or is it always that clean?

 

Hah thanks!

Well fortunately for me, I had just shot a video on how to wash a car and we used my MINI as the "victim".

So it was quite clean, considering I had driven around 150 miles to get to this location, it was a nice treat for my then dirty MINI!

Richard

 

Kurt, awesome sunset photos yet again. I'm out of time tonight, but I'll try and get some of my new sunset photos posted tomorrow to show you. I really like the photo of the classic Mini too. Man that car is gorgeous!

OctaneGuy, when I first saw your photo, I thought that would be a perfect advert for your detailing video. I don't think you can get more of a mirror finish than what you showed.

 

Thanks speednut! That Mini is in the NAM calender (thought it looked familiar)!

OctaneGuy, I've used the excuse of low light to get away with a dirty car all this time. Now you show up...

 

Finally catching up here as we've been having some very nice sunsets lately in the South Bay. Mother Nature's A/C has been kicking in and bringing some clouds & fog in for the sun to reflect onto.

I often hear pro photographers say to photograph near where you live so when you see great light to capture, you already know a good place for composition. I'm trying to use this thought process and I believe this is what Kurt is doing when he finds some of the amazing Arizona sunsets. These were all taken at or within 1/2 mile of my house this past two weeks. I used my new tiny Panasonic LX1 which is always in my computer bag so I can take spur-of-the-moment photos.

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Almaden Valley Sunset.
Clouds found during curry dinner run.
Neighbor's house with bronze tint windows creating interesting highlights on "Twiggy".
Reflections on the C pillar while feeding "Twiggy".
Sunset glow on Lake Almaden.
Sunset glow on Lake Almaden continued.

 

You dog! I like this one... a new perspective. Wonder what my non-overrideable auto-focus will do.
Thanks for blowing my secret about looking for locations.
Really nice set here; the film format is trick.

 

Just stole this off Drudge.

 

The suns was setting as I was washing it yesterday and I like the way the clouds reflected off the bonnet. Of couse when I went to drive it today it was a mess, must of rained from those clouds last night.

 

This was intense tonight. Started a bit lame.

This is a vacant lot on a ridge above ChinaMart, I would have to rob a Brinks truck to buy it. Last night had incredible alpenglow rays past Granite Mountain, spaced taking the camera. It was boring for awhile after this.

Tried something different with the car (like avoid showing how dirty it is despite washing the big dirt from the run up Thumb Butte Road last night )

This glow started...

...and it got brighter...

...and brighter...

Climaxing with this red rain glow. God is a great artist.
I like seeing what other people are trying out, keep it coming!

 

Here's one from two years ago.

 

Good thing this thread doesn't have a time restriction to post!

 

 

From the most recent DAMM "meet & eat"...

 

Whoa. That's awesome.