I was able to make my way down to Mansfield, OH this year for the Indycar race. I didn’t get too many photos, that aren’t on film. Here’s what I grabbed on my T2i. I’ll get the film developed sometime after the AMA vintage event at the end of July. So watch out for that sometime next month.
Here we are the day after the late evening finish to another memorable race. Every year I seem to just fall more in love with this event and this track. I was able to bring my mom to her 1st Indy 500 and she had a fantastic time. We’ll be back for the Brickyard 400 in July as well.
I love taking photos at these events but taking photos from the stands is so limiting here. Some venues allow for fantastic shots in non-credentialed areas. Hopefully I can make the transition to something more professional in the near future.
I didn’t intend to go to this race, but when I had COVID last year I bought them in my sleep. So I made the plans and almost didn’t make it because I was hospitalized week of the race with an internal bleed. I was able to recover just enough to go with my mother and friend watching over me.
I’ve been wanting to shoot Indycar for some time now but it hasn’t worked out until now. This is my favorite series, and hopefully I’ll be back next year. I want to get some better photos, because I didn’t try all my creative techniques. I was still tired from losing blood and my brain wasn’t 100%. I still had a great time and met my fellow members of the PrueDay (an Indycar fan group) and motorsport journalist Marshall Pruett. I went back to Indy two weeks later for the 500, expect that post in about a week.
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