I feel like I have deserted this forum and club. The last few months have been real busy for me. I have picked up several jobs photographing racing events and haven't had the time to get in here much. I am taking racing and autocross pictures at NCCC, SCCA and NASA events. This month I signed on with a driving school to work with them and provide photography at their schools at Putnam Park, In Indiana, and Bluegrass Motorsports Club & Road Course, a new course under construction in Kentucky. Part of the fun of this is it allows me to get free track time in instead of paying for track days. Kinda nice to go to track days and make money instead of spending it. I'm sure any of you who have ever been involved in racing know that it gets very expensive very fast. Just posting this to let everyone know that I am still around. Hope everyone is doing well and ready for a new riding season.
Keith
Keith,
Hope you can keep in touch here your posts were always great. Sounds like you have an interesting job there. As a former professional racer in many capacities let me warn you to keep your eyes open and be ready to get out of the way of wayward cars. I can still recall that many times when on the track I looked at those photographers at trackside and thought that they sure had a lot more guts than us morons in the race cars. Be carful.
Claude, I am very careful where I shoot from. maybe not always the best position for the shots but I like to be safe. I know what it is like at the track. my road course experience is limited but I started NRHA drag racing in the late 1960's Have been out of that for a while and running autocross and high speed track days. I have taken pictures at a lot of events over the years, Car, motorcycle and airshows. In fact, if you have followed any of that you may have already seen my pictures in magazines. This new association with the school looks like fun.
Did you race ovals or road courses?
HDKeith wrote:
>>Did you race ovals or road courses? <<
I ran oval tracks. Dirt tracks with some pavement also. Preferred Non Winged sprint cars but also ran winged sprints and a few midgets with some stocks and modifieds early on.
Back years ago some of those photo guys woudl stand right out at the edge of the track in the infield. Never saw one actually get hit but did see a large camera get run over once while the photographer was making some fast tracks out of there..lol.
What name does your work get published under...I will be on the lookout for it. Keep us posted.
Attached is a picture out of a series of shots that the photographer got at Learnerville sppedway. He had a motordrive on the camera and was in the right spot at the right time. The car went over 8 or 9 times and he got the whole sequence on film.One of the rules of racing is that if you are going to crash at least do it in front of a photographer. They have to eat too. We kept them from starving sometimes... lol.
nice picture there Claude. I haven't had pics in any major car mags yet. have been published in aviation and motorcycle mags. usually with the byline Keith Miller.
a few sample galleries
http://www.keithmillerphotography.com/
