JayKnight Life: Running, Reviews, Photos

The leaders, Race 13.1 Durham      Who writes about volunteering for a race? Nobody. All the glory, fame, pain and humble-brags come with running a race.       Let me tell you something- I'm really glad I decided to volunteer instead of run the Inaugural Race13.1 Durham.      I had a lot of fun and it was really cool to see the race from a different perspective. I've volunteered once before-- well, let's call it one and s half. The first time was for the Ironman race in Raleigh  we were the snack and drink station. The second time, I volunteered to be a pacer, but my registration got overlooked. So, I got to run a race for free. This time was all 100% legit. I was a corse monitor. I was to control one intersection. Keep cars from moving while runners were passing through. If you ran this race, I was the guy with the GoPro on his head.     The intersection after mine--- the dude didn't show up.     I gue...

So, I'm finally back to taking pictures again. It's funny.. because I didn't even tap the shutter button on my camera for one month. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet, .... but because I was spending less time processing photos on my slow computer.. I didn't have more time with my family. Anyway this weekend I went to a car show. A Porsche Show at the NC Museum of Art. It was pretty awesome talking with some of the owners... dragging my son around.. and oh yes.. Daisey came out with me too. Here are some of my shots! enjoy.

So I was inspired by a video done by Brian Peterdon to take long exposure photography on the road. Brisnpeterdon does short informative videos for adorama TV on YouTube. He reminds me of an older Jared Polin,... Except he recently cut off his hair. Anyway, Peterson used an variable ND filter to take a long exposure picture in a moving car during the day.      Well, I stacked two ND filters and did the same thing at night.  I love it. I am always looking to take pictures that can be seen as art. This set right here is one of my favorites so far. Next I want to try it during the day. By the way, no law were broken in the making of these pictures. The camera was on a tripod in the back seat and strapped into a seatbelt. I tried to pop a flash to light up the inside of the car.  But, that would have been too dangerous. i love the craziness in the middle maybe i call this warp speed i like the one line that dips while the others seem straight

    Nothing says summer like fireworks and canon balls. Have I said that I love taking pictures of fireworks yet?.. because I do. What is so kinda cool about this is that for one set of photo's i'm using long exposures-- keeping the shutter open for between 1 and 4 seconds... and the other set I'm keeping it open for 1- hundredth or thousandth of a second.

      The last post was all about the people.. this one is all about the cars, the power under hte hood.. and the rare sighting of a Dodge Challenger SRT Limo. I would love to see that thing in a test drive. What would the zero to 60 numbers be? What would the 60-0  be? How would it do in the slalom? No doubt the car might even do better than some of the older muscle cars before they were injected with modern technology and power.