Lots of media sources are compiling their Best of 2009 and even Best of the Decade galleries as we fast approach 2010. I thought I’d join in the fun by putting together my own favorite photos i’ve taken this year. Its a good exercise for any photographer to do, giving you the opportunity to reflect on your work in the past year and how you may learn to improve from them.
So, follow the jump link to see my Photos of the Year from 2009. They’re not necessarily the “best” images in terms of execution or action pictured, but were certainly what I thought were cool or funny or interesting. The pictures are presented chronologically through 2009.
After shooting this year’s LifeLock 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway, I had to leave the pit area to get back home. Instead of leaving from the tunnel, I drove out on the track (we’re allowed) and took turns 1 and 2. I think i hit about 90 mph around turn 2 before slamming on the brakes.
Its always louder, more scary, and way more asphalt in your face than you can imagine or think it’d be. That’s what I realized after photographing this year’s LifeLock 400 NASCAR race at Michigan International Speedway, through the precarious vantage point of a hole in the fence over the track’s Turn 1. The cars speed under you at 180 some mph, 8-10 ft between you and them…
Thanks to Cory Olsen of the Grand Rapids Press for filming me!
Turn 1 holes in the fence at MIS, during a green flag restart of the LifeLock 400 NASCAR race. Photogs duck because of all the asphalt that gets kicked up.
Funny thing as I walked pit road after driver introductions yesterday at the LifeLock 400 at Michigan International Speedway, I come to a car that has a nickname for me. Naturally i had its crew film me with it!
