The Cars

The Alfa Spider (96) was raced by Nick's friend Anthony Ross, from Cambridge.  He shared the racing with his son Adam.  The two Mini Coopers (one Austin, the other Morris) raced closely and swapped positions may times during the races.  The Austin retired twice.  Adam Ross chases the yellow Ginetta G15 into Coram Curve.  The Ferrari 308 was rather quiet for a racer.  The XK 150's driver flung it into corners but never quite got to oversteer.

The Pits

To Snetterton with Nick Hyde and met Peter there, as he went by Midget.  Lovely warm weather and a good turn-out of historic racing cars. 

Pits Walk

Accompanied the walk in dreary weather as a volunteer.  Using ISO 3200 on the Olympus, I was still only at 1/1000th sec.  I spotted goldcrest and tree creeper and photographed a swallow spotted by our leader.  When I downloaded the images, I spotted a ? sand martin we hadn't seen at the time on the same tree as the swallow.  Finally a dunnock.  We ticked 45 species, and saw none of the usual raptors.  

The Old 135 Magic

The 135mm focal length was the first 'extra' lens I bought for my Praktica back in the 70s, the first for the new Canon autofocus system in the 00s and now it's a 90mm for the Fuji, which has the same angle of view on this format as the 135mm.  Although it's going to be my 'insect' lens, and used with an extension tube and a flash, as here, it doubles as a portrait lens.  Pics 2 & 3 are 100% crops and the detail is very good.  Roll on Spring!

Rain at the Pits

Rain and overcast light at Paxton this morning.  ISO 1600 from the Kingfisher Hide.

Bark and Bite

 At Sylvie's for a start-to-finish day, I used the 90mm Fuji for some different images.  The collie is called Finn and is thirteen years old.  The wall is considerably older.

It's That Shit-Box Dodge Again!

Just out of the NEC car park and we followed the Bluesmobile complete with Ellwood in pork pie hat.