Photo by Niamh Redmond

At the beginning of September, I was invited (via Twitter) to take part in a photowalk for Jap-Fest, a festival of Japanese motorsport and motoring, at Mondello Park. While I am more of a motorbike enthusiast, I have always liked motor-sports cars and racing as well, so I was looking forward to photographing the event.

I shot with a Sony DSC T-700 and a Fuji Finepix S7000, slightly more humble pieces of equipment in comparison to a lot of the other photographers! While the camera doesn’t make the photographer, there is a visible difference in my photos in comparison with some of the others. For one, I felt that it wasn’t worth for me to try to get really good action shots or close-ups because I simply didn’t have the equipment to do this with. Secondly, I tend to prefer to shoot photos as they are, with very little or no photoshopping/ re-touching in post-production (blame my occupation if you like, I like to leave PhotoShop at the office.)

Below is a selection of some of my images, and the entire set can be viewed on Flickr or Pix.ie. It was a challenge shooting in the wet weather but nonetheless an enjoyable day.

* Check out the guys in the left background of this photo – pity the lighting was bad in that area, I think they make the image interesting.

Thanks Mondello for the invite, namely John, Corporate Sales & Marketing Manager for Mondello and a photoblogger himself, and Fergus. Mondello Park have have a number of race events throughout the year, as well as a driving school. Thanks to Stephen Holmes and Treasa Lynch for the lifts out to Kildare and back! Also, thanks to the other photographers (links to their own websites/ twitter accounts are listed below) – it was nice to meet you all in person:

Jennifer Farley (Jennifer, I hi-jacked your list of photographers below – hope that is ok!)

Elliott Tucker

Stephen Holmes

John Williams

Treasa Lynch

Ryan Whalley

Claire Wilson

Kyle Tunney

Kate Southall

Julie

Rory Wallace

Davy Mac

Redmum

Derek McAuley

Gillian McEnteggart

Emmet

Al Higgins

Mike Patterson

Shane Murphy

- Niamh.

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