WELCOME TO MY BLOG
My name is Ian Colley and I am a working freelance photographer located on the south side of Brisbane, specialising in Real Estate and Architecture photography, however this blog covers all aspects of my photography including my Sport and Landscape photography and any specials that I might have on photos or gallery prints from recent events.
Good Times
This is what a lot of fun and constant mud showers looks like.
The Oly E5, E-M1 and lenses stood up to some serious abuse over the 2 weekends of the UIM World Series Jetsprints. A couple of long showers with my camera gear to wash off the heavily encrusted mud to get to how it looks in the photos, then some careful cleaning with pre-moistened lens wipes to get it all looking like new. Ready to play another weekend.
Round 1 of the Mt Cotton Hillclimb Series on this weekend, good times !
Regards
Ian
2016 UIM Jetsprint World Championship update
I was a little ambitious thinking I would get all the photos done by last Friday. I had so many to sort through and ended up uploading so many, probably too many, but you get that. Anyway they are done.
The special still stands, all the 2400 x 1800 photos of a boat for $100 per round, or purchase them individually for $5 per photo if you only want a few. Prints will only be fulfilled for Australian customers. If you wish to buy all the photos of a boat please contact me by email as this is not an automated option on my web site.
All the boat photos can be found here.
There were quite a few big crashes over the two rounds but the most spectacular had to be the Harvest Transport crash during practise and early qualifying on Friday at Baypark. I have attached part of the sequence I shot from that crash.
Please do not copy or reproduce these photos without my permission.
Thank you once again to all involved in putting on this fantastic event and I can't wait for the next one to come around.
Regards Ian
2016 UIM Jetsprint World Championship
After a nice break over Christmas it all started with a bang in late January. Karen and I were invited to shoot the 2016 UIM World Series Jetsprint Championship in New Zealand with full media accreditation. The series was held over two rounds on the last two weekends of January. The first round was held at Meremere and the second round was held at Baypark Stadium Mt Maunganui. The amazing thing about the Baypark track is that the track is dug out of the infield of a large speedway circuit (previously a rugby field). A week to build it, 2 days use and then a week to restore it back to normal, ready for the next speedway meeting or athletics meet. What a superb venue, grandstand seating allowing great viewing for about 300 degrees around the oval. To top it all off, the meeting was held during the afternoon and into the evening under lights. Both race meetings were well attended with The Baypark Stadium crowd nudging 20,000 on the main race day. Big thanks go out to Paul Gaston, the NZJSA President, and the NZJSA members and associates that helped to put this series on, from my experience and I'm sure the crowds too the whole show ran like a well oiled machine.
The competition between the Americans, Canadians, Aussies and the Kiwis was spectacular with the New Zealand teams too good, taking wins at both events in both classes. We have to do this in Australia, hang on, we will, in two years it's our turn to host this series. Can't wait.
I have finished sorting through and culling images down to a respectable number and am in the process of uploading them to my web site. I hope to have them all up by Thursday or Friday of this week. At the moment I have "Crashes and Spins and other fun Stuff" for both rounds "Random track photos" and photos for Eagle Automotive and Harvest Transport already loaded up for viewing.
Until the end of March, I will be offering a special on the photos, the 2400 x 1800 downloads will be $5 instead of $10 and all the 2400 x 1800 photos of an entrant (boat) can be bought for $100 per round. The "Random Track photos" are free to download.
I have attached a few lightly edited photos of some of the spectacular out of water action that goes on at Jetsprint racing. Enjoy.
I will post again when all the photos are uploaded to my web site but in the mean time here is the link to the folders of photos so far.
Please respect my copyright and do not reproduce or copy these photos without my permission.
Regards Ian
Round 6 of Mt Cotton Hillclimb 2015
The final round of the 2015 TSA-SRA Hillclimb Series was held on the last weekend of November in good weather. There were plenty of entrants with a higher than usual number of open wheelers attending.
Both days competition went pretty smoothly with few interruptions to proceedings. Although Neil Lewis had a big off at Lovers on Sunday which put an end to his day. He appeared to run a bit wide entering the left hander at Lovers and got in to some loose stuff and ran wide and off the track smacking the new wall on the right pretty hard. The car sustained a bit of damage to right side front and rear wheels, suspension and wings. Neil appeared ok thankfully.
Photos from the event can be found here
Here are a couple of photos from the weekend
Please respect my copyright and do not copy or reproduce these photos without my consent.
Thanks to the MG Car Club of Brisbane and the Mt Cotton Hillclimb committee and organisers for another great year of competition. A big thank you also to Trenching Systems Australia and Stewart Reid Automotive for their sponsorship of this series. See you next year.
Regards Ian
More from Round 6 of Jetsprints
All the photos have been culled, sorted and uploaded to my web site.
I have also finished a quick compilation of two of the crashes from Sunday's competition. I'm thinking this might make a nice frame for next year, featuring the crashes of Trouble Maker and Poison Ivy.
Bring on racing for next year, starting with the World Series in New Zealand.
Regards Ian