Reflections

I mentioned that I’d post a photo of some of my friends a blog or three down, and here it is…

That’s TK, Steve, and Lupe in the background, and of course, yours truly behind the camera.  

I’ve done a bunch of these reflection shots, and I think they’re pretty cool.   The airbox covers on a California Scooter make for a pretty good mirror, and you can get good shots if you play around a bit.   I may have a few more on the hard drive here…let me see what I can find…

Okay, here we go. 

Here’s a recent photo from our day at the VW drags…the mirror here is a VW hubcap…

Susie and I spent a weekend in San Diego a month or two ago.   Here’s a photo showing us in front of an art shop…

Here’s another VW hubcap shot…I took this photo in front of the CSC plant.

Here’s one from the 2004 Hansen Dam classic bike meet…it’s my buddy Marty and me.   I was mostly using film back in those days, and I probably had my old Nikon N-70.  

This is another Hansen Dam photo…this time from the 2006 BSA meet…

You gotta love those old BSAs and their big chrome tank panels!

This next one is from Hansen Dam in 2008…I can’t remember what this bike was, except that it was almost certainly British.   The Brits loved chrome on their motorcycles…

Wow, I guess I had more of these reflection shots than I realized.   Okay, I know, but bear with me…there’s just a few more.

Take a look at this one….I took advantage of a Harley Knucklehead chrome air cleaner cover at the 2002 Long Beach motorcycle show…

I grabbed the Knucklehead shot above (please note that “Knucklehead” refers to the Harley engine, not the photographer) with a Sony Mavica digital camera.  It was one of the first digital cameras and it did a nice job.

This one is cool…it’s an “in the grill” shot with Steve at the SEMA 2010 show…

And here’s one last one I grabbed in front of “the Bean” on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue last December.   The Bean is a cool (and huge) polished sculpture.  It makes for an interesting photograph.  

We’re in the lower left corner and that’s the Chicago skyline behind us…

I’ve got a few more, but you get the idea.   My apologies if this blog seems ego-centric (it’s not all about me, I know), but I really like these reflection shots.  It’s a cool technique.   And there’s the obvious reason I’m in the photos…I’m the guy behind the camera.

Looks like it’s a nice day today, and we bought a new GoPro Hero video cam yesterday (it was an impulse purchase…they were on sale at Costco).   If I don’t get to it today, I’ll set it up in the next day or so and grab some CSC “on the road” video with it.   My new GoPro has the wind-noise cancellation feature, and I’m eager to see how that works out.

Ride safe, my friends!