Broome Tioga - Round #2 2013-14 Winter Series

....  so I had anticipated on going to the races and shooting them for the better part of the day today.  I did go and I did shoot.  For a while.  I just wasn't "feeling it".  Shooting just felt kind of repetitious . . . I don't know...   Weather wasn't bad.  It was a bit on the cool side but when the sun was out it was very tolerable - and the sun was out quite a bit.  I hung around for a couple of hours but took off around 12:30 - 1:00pm... I went home and grabbed my dogs, had them jump into the back of the car and off we went to go for a good run.  {shrug shoulders}

Anyway - some grabs from the (brief) period of time that I was up there ...  I'll have these and the rest of the keepers posted up to the galleries in a day or so.  I think I'm in my usual winter "funk" where I just don't feel like shooting, or doing much of anything for that matter.  Hmmmmmm . . . .  March can't get here soon enough - that's "the last corner" of the yearly lap around the calendar.  We come out of that corner and then ease onto the gas going into the home stretch - Springtime and then Summer!

SDR's 2013-14 Winter Series Begins

From Motorsport Racing

The 2013-14 winter mud & snow scrambles race series at the Square Deal Riders (Belden Hill as it is apparently more commonly known to old timers... ) kicked off today under generally decent weather temperature-wise.  It was an "ugly" day with heavily overcast skies, but not terribly cold.  The race had an overall small'ish turnout but there were still probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 or so competitors that showed up to get in some racing.  It is hunting season and we are just coming off of the Thanksgiving holiday...  these could be contributing factors to the turnout.

From Motorsport Racing

In any case - the racing was pretty good, and I was out there catching some of it with my "throw back" camera kit.  I don't know why but I decided to "go old school" and just brought a very simple kit with me today.  I used my older D300 body and a little fixed focal length 24mm lens.  I also decided that I was going to use my old lighting kit that consists of my old SB28's and Paul Buff Cybersyncs.  No "fancy schmancy" TTL SB-600's and pocket wizards today.  As it turned out - I shot the better part of the day not using the flashes at all.  ( I was lazy and didn't feel like setting up the flashes ....  )  I did eventually pull them out later in the day though as the already gloomy skies began to get even gloomier and light was beginning to taper off.  I'd already decided that I was going to be restricting myself to a max 1/320th of a second shutter speed (manual flashes - no high speed sync / TTL voodoo) so I also shot in shutter priority some today too.  Basically I spent the day playing...    I tossed quite a few shots -- 1/250th and below is really not quite fast enough (without any flash) to score a good number of keepers...  that old D300 just doesn't grab focus nearly as fast as the D700 does either.  But -- thats ok -- I still managed to pull of some keepers and they'll be going up to the galleries in a day or so.

Anyway - SDR Round 1 is down, next Saturday the 7th is Round 2 of Broome Tioga's winter series.

More later...