Archive for September, 2009

Winter Approaches, Time for T-Shirts..?

Posted by Chris on September 30 2009 4 Commented

Despite just picking up a shiny new camera (more on that later), I will unfortuately be shooting less and less in the coming weeks as winter rears its ugly head up here in Canada and everybody puts their summer rides into hibernation. When that happens my mind starts planning other projects to keep me busy…

EVENT: JDMRides Final Meet Up Close

Posted by Chris on September 28 2009 Add Comments

I hate shooting ‘meets’ and events like this. you always get shots of a wicked car with some other car you don’t really want in the shot behind it, or some tall skinny dude eating a hotdog in the background (that was me in many other people’s shots today). So I decided to focus more [...]

SIGHTING: Insane Lip

Posted by Chris on September 26 2009 Add Comments

Saw this at the Kennedy Commons meet last Wed. Absolutely BONKERS amount of lip on this BMW 650. I’m not a huge follower of this style really but I gotta say it worked really well on this car in particular. The owner seems to ‘get’ exactly what the 6-series is about. Not like the people [...]

FEATURED CAR: Toshi’s Red Hot R35 GTR

Posted by Chris on September 24 2009 one Commented

“Hey Chris wanna shoot a GTR? It’s an R35 in red.”
“Uhhhhhhh… yes please” was my obvious reply…
What else do you say when you get the chance to poke around a fresh GTR? I’ve never seen the red one in person before, so I was intrigued. I personally hate the signature silver colour these come in, [...]

FEATURED CAR: Paolo’s Civic

Posted by Chris on September 22 2009 2 Commented

Paolo and I had been talking since what must’ve been early in the summer about shooting his car, but waiting for a few final bits to go on. A Civic would have to be somewhat special to stand up to some of the other cars on this site – GTR, Lamborghini, Aston Martin – these [...]

MOVIE TUESDAY: “Why I love my Subaru” Edition

Posted by Chris on September 22 2009 Add Comments

The only classes I liked in high school were the ones where we had a movie day. So arbitrarily I’m going to make Tuesday “movie day” where I’ll post a vid or two that I’ve come across worth sharing. This week? Why I love my Subaru. 220km/h rally jump. Ken Block’s vids are great but [...]

FEATURED CAR(S!): Henry’s and David’s S2000s

Posted by Chris on September 16 2009 4 Commented

Henry and David contacted me last week to shoot their cars, and having never had one S2000 to shoot – let alone two of them – I was more than happy to oblige. The problem as I see it with S2000’s isn’t so much anything with the car in specific. The problem is now that [...]

FEATURED CAR: Dan’s Lamborghini Gallardo

Posted by Chris on September 14 2009 2 Commented

Ok, so I know it’s not modified or tuned and maybe it’s not really Dan’s, what would you do if someone said “Wanna come shoot a Lambo?” Dan was nice enough to bring out “Il Toro” for me and a friend to take a few pics of before showing up at our weekly Subaru meet [...]

MOOOAR Targa NewfoundLand Subaru STI

Posted by Chris on September 11 2009 2 Commented

Well, here’s the final poster design they came up with. I’m happy they chose this photo, it looks pretty cool I thought. I threw in a few more photos after the cut from the day of the shoot, some behind the scenes stuff, and another rigshot angle. Check it out…

FEATURED CAR: Paul’s Backalley Brawler ‘72 Celica

Posted by Chris on September 9 2009 2 Commented

I came back to work after a lunch of beers late last week and ran into this little monster sitting outside my office on the street. A little poking around and I could tell something was up with this Celica. It clearly wasn’t your average run of the mill example. What looked like an oil [...]

SPOTTED: BMW 1970’s 3.0CSL @ Mosport

Posted by Chris on September 8 2009 Add Comments

Went to Mosport this past weekend and shot the regional finals. It was pretty dead really and I heard the organizers had a tough time with a promoter prior to the event resulting in a split between the series’ that were supposed to be featured. They wound up splitting the GT1/2/3 and 4/5/6 cars into [...]

FEATURED CAR: Wayne’s Widebody STI

Posted by Chris on September 7 2009 4 Commented

Occasionally you’ll hear about a project someone’s doing and it’ll resonate with you as being full of potential. You’ll forget about it – perhaps assuming that like so many before it the project got shelved for lack of funds, interest – whatever. Then a month later you’ll hear through a friend of a friend who [...]

QUICKSHOT: Targa NewFoundLand Subaru STI

Posted by Chris on September 2 2009 one Commented

UPDATE: Woo! Looks like Subaru Canada decided to use a pic of mine after all for the poster. I’m not going to post it up since I don’t want to ruin it if they want to keep the picture a surprise until the event, but I’m stoked they picked one in the end! Hell ya! [...]

Fresh wallpapers added…

Posted by Chris on September 1 2009 one Commented

BOOM. Just like that. As promised I went back and added a bunch of high resolution images in standard and widescreen formats under the wallpaper section. These are shots that people have asked for high-res of from previous shoots but I was too lazy/slow to get them online and sized. Hit it up…