Red Bull Air Race Budapest 09

We went to a wedding in Hungary which took place a few days after the Red Bull Air Race in Budapest, who could pass up such a good excuse to attend since we'd be passing through the neighbourhood?
I went to one of the air races a few years back in London, the paid seating was worse than the free viewing spots in Budapest, I only had a point and shoot camera too and came away with no shots worth showing. This time though..

A different story. There was also an aerial display from the Breitling Jets, apparently the only privately owned team of the sort.

I was very happy to get pictures where you could see the pilots looking at each other's aircraft.
It's a crazy sport and very exciting to watch, suffers in the same way as Rally, or Downhill Racing does because there's only one competitor to watch at a time, you don't see one directly competing against the other, still it's insane, a four cross version would be unreal, and deadly.
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Long time.

Blogging didn't really work well for me. Will try to do a bit more with things getting scattered across so many pages, lets see how keeping it a bit central goes.
I went to work at Weta for a year, making muscles for blue aliens on James Cameron's Avatar.
While there I shipped my old SLR camera and lenses, and wondered how I ended up with a digital point and shoot.
I went out a few times taking pictures around Wellington.

Taken with film

Switching lenses looking through a view finder had me itching to have a real camera, so I brought a DSLR. Even Rolled onto a smug mug account.
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It's nice to feel you have some control of the images you take.