SCCA Double Nationals at Pacific Raceways, 5-24-09

Special thanks to Joey for letting me chill with his crew and getting me on the track! Congrats on the 4th place finish despite the brake problems the day before! I'm looking forward to shooting on the track again.

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Joey:

We weren't sure if this was anyone on NASIOC:

Badass Civic:

The Corvettes sounded super sick:

Got lip?

Some Formula Mazdas and a few others in the mix:

Being sponsored by Microsoft's gotta pay off...this Porsche was stupid fast:

Badass Cobra:

Go get 'em, Joey!

Time goes by too fast

I swear, every time I figure it's time to put up a new blog post, I realize I'm at least a month behind. Argh! Anyway, quite a few new pics since the last set:

Erik and Tana's Engagement Ceremony

The Quad 2009

Mariners vs. Tigers, 4-19-09

Sakura Con 2009

Burger Madness Meet

New Photos of the M-Thrizzle

Smugmug Reorganizing and Photos from March

I don't know exactly what brought it on, but I did some reorganizing on my Smugmug, and probably will continue to do so at random intervals. I think it's for the best though, to make everything a little more organized. The big thing I did was reorganize the Events gallery, breaking it up into subcategories that should make things easier to find:

http://verdugo.smugmug.com/Events

I also lumped all my landscape photography into the big "Landscape" category:

http://verdugo.smugmug.com/Landscapes

As far as photography goes, here's a quick run-down:

Proper 275/30/19 tires on the Red Car

Bond of Bellevue Car Show

Project One PasMag Shoot

Alpers-Merani Engagement Party

That oughta do it for now...I'll be taking photos at the Northwest Nissans Annual Meet this weekend!

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Rylan-Gabriel's Baptism and the Red Brick Road

This winter has been rather harsh for the Seattle area. We've had snow off and on and the weather overall just hasn't been very nice to photographers such as myself. Nevertheless, I do have some highlights from the past month or so. The first one is Rylan-Gabriel's Baptism. Shooting indoors in low light is always a bit tricky, and I wish I had remembered to borrow Eugene's D300 because of its lack of noise at high ISO.

All the photos: http://verdugo.smugmug.com/gallery/7174066_kTH7U

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Amazingly, a few weeks later the skies opened up and we actually had 60-degree weather! I gave the Bimmer a quick wash (even washing off ice from the night before) and headed out to the Old Red Brick Road in Redmond to meet up with a few Subaru peeps for photos. Here are a few photos of James' WRX and my M3 after that:

Blow

No, I'm not talking about cocaine in the blog title...but instead I've got some photos from the December snow storms here in Seattle and some new car photos. First off, the snow...from about the beginning of December and through the rest of the month, it was stupid cold. Berto's birthday was the first snow we saw, but it just got worse after that. It was so bad in fact that I missed a number of days from work because I simply couldn't get out of my driveway! AWD is nice but it doesn't matter when you're rolling on a few inches of ice. It was quite literally the worst snow Seattle has seen since the early 1990s. This is what I'm talking about:

All the snow photos: http://verdugo.smugmug.com/gallery/6898396_tKtx4

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During a break in the snow storms, I was able to head down to San Diego and spend time with my family for Christmas. It was only 4 days, but when I got back to Seattle, it snowed yet again. Uber lame.

Anyway, as the new year came, all the snows melted (except for one last hurrah on January 4th) and by the next weekend, I was back taking photos of cars again. My cousin Wence just bought our friend Fook's WRX, and Shaun came out to take photos with his S14 as well. I used this opportunity to debut my new watermark for 2009 to match my website:

All the photos: http://verdugo.smugmug.com/gallery/7076689_kZsb3

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