The first car / motorsport show of the year for me kicks off in style with the Autosport International show at the NEC in Birmingham. Its always held in the middle of January so it becomes a welcome into 2008 for the show season for me, and 2008′s show was as good as ever.
I won’t go into too much detail about the day because it was simply too big to, but its definatly a show that I would highly recommend to any petrol head. Below is a bunch of my favorite photos that I took yesterday.
The girls at the show is always a main feature and, naturally, never dissapoint. I made a point of taking a lot more photos of the girls this year than normal since I’ve noticed that photos with girls in seem to attract a lot of attension on my Flickr portfolio.
Finally, toward the end of our day saw the Live Action Arena show as part of our entry ticket. Again, this was as brilliant as ever. For the camera geeks out there, I must point out that taking photos in this show when you don’t have a photographers press pass is damn near impossible! Its always very dark and there’s always a damn fence in the way to shoot through. I think I did well considering the difficulties anyway.
To sum up then, the 2008 Autosport International show was as good as ever, absoultely brilliant in fact. A perfect show for blokes who are into cars in a big way, with a side-order of stunning girls, some live action and some beer. Spot-on.
Dude, these pics are ace – I will comment on them on the old Flickr later. The blonde lass on the bonnet… Yum!
Chat Soon Dude. Con. x
Nice pics but the show was a nightmare for those of us stuck there for the entire four days with that F1 engine sound EVERY.FIFTEEN.MINUTES.
Bah.
Thanks to both of you.
Neil – yep, the one on the bonnet really was quite tasty!
Joff – Tell me about it! I was there for just one day and it was really starting to get to me after a while. What was that all about?!
Nice pics
Is that the engine that can play a tune via a laptop? I find that amusing.. haha
Nice pics.
Totally unrelated to the post but anyhoo. Hello. I was randomly on the wayback machine today and well.. have a look, mostly over 5 years ago. Has it been that long!
web.archive.org/web/2004021809...
web.archive.org/web/2003061905...
web.archive.org/web/2004051623...
Wow, what a trip down memory lane. I’ve saved those photos and the video for future keep. Thank God for web archive.
Thanks for posting, take care
Hi Daze,
Some very nice pics there. Were you using a long lens for the first couple above? There’s a nice foreshortening thing going on that really works well for the cars – makes them look more muscular and what-not. Very nice.