the bus blog

Last weekend took me to Westonbirt - its supposedly one of the best arboretums in the area. I say supposedly, its the first one I’ve ever been to so I don’t have much to compare it to. Its was interesting, and absolutely packed. I imagined an arboretum to be a peaceful, quiet calm place - which it would have been if it wasn’t for the thousands of other people their noisy children and crazy dogs. Saying all that it was nice, we took both cameras and took some interesting photos. I’ve created a Flickr account, and I’ve uploaded the photos we took on Sunday. Here are a few from the set.

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Last Sunday was the last race in the Formula 4 2007 season - and as Sencon sponsor a local car I went along to watch the race and take a few photos. Sian and I have just got a D50 so I thought this would be a great time to use it and figure it out.

That’s my best effort from the day - I’m still getting used to using this camera (in fact any DSLR) and really would have done better with a longer lens. Saying that it looks like a pretty decent first attempt at motor sport photography to me, so I’m pleased!

The car finished 8th overall but a 6th place ‘went begging’ mainly due to old front tyres that had to be used because of a clutch failure in qualifying neigh-on destroying the last set of decent fronts. Charles finished 7th in the championship overal, slipping from 6th in this last race.

We’re all hoping for an improvement next season, and I’ll be paying an interest in progress over the winter & I’ll be sure to get some interesting shots of the rebuild progress.

Here it is! Unbelievably fun to drive, I didn’t think it would be as much fun as it is. There’s no point in writing some sort of a review of the car - its fantastic to drive. Its not as fast as I thought it might be but in ‘the twisties’ it makes up for its lack (140bhp) of power.

I’m probably going to change the tyres soonish as the fronts are unheard of and don’t inspire confidence, and I’d really like to get a roll bar fitted but funds are the limiting factor on that.