Turn One
I was sent to the Hickory Motor Speedway on Saturday night to photograph the 2nd Annual Dwight Huffman Memorial Race. The event schedule was way off track for some reason, and the first of the three racing events didn't start until 8:30pm and I was expecting the main event (2nd race of the 3-race schedule) to start by 8:30. I was rather bored, because I arrived at the track early to shoot a feature photo I needed for another assignment. By the time the event I needed to cover started, it was almost 10pm. As expected, that event ran long also. When you put 40 cars on a .36 mile oval, mayhem usually follows, and Saturday night was no exception. Regardless of the length of the event, I needed photos that highlighted the winner of the race, which I knew was going to push the newspaper's deadline. I shot a few photos of drivers who were leading the race up until midnight when my editor called and told me to come on back with what I had. During my down time in this race, I decided to play around a little with some hand-held long exposure zooms and came up with a couple images I liked...