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Back to Concours d’Elegance at Stanford!

I got going early this morning to head over to the Palo Alto Concours d’Elegance sponsored as an annual event by the Palo Alto Lions Club. It’s pretty amazing to get there early and watch the cars arrive – often with their owners in period costume!

Today, like last year, was going to be a hot one. I finally faded about 10 AM – just before Brian Douglas took to the air on KSFO with his auto show.

Here’s a set on Flickr of the post-processed shots from my time at the Concours. These were shot using my Canon 5D Mark II – in Aperture priority. They were post-processed using Adobe Lightroom 3 and Photomatix Pro as single image HDR’s.

A bit abstract perhaps, but I enjoyed how they turned out – and I certainly didn’t feel like lugging a tripod around to shoot multi-image HDR’s!

Mercedes

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Concours d’Elegance at Stanford – Sunday, June 27, 2010

I was reminded by Chris Gulker’s ’56 Chevy post on our InMenlo.com blog that this Sunday is the annual Concours d’Elegance at Stanford – a benefit for the Palo Alto Lions Club. I attended for the first time last year – and had a great time shooting some great classic cars! Here’s a link to my photo set on Flickr from last year’s event.

Below is another great shot – taken in the classic campground area – of a Teardrop camping trailer. This is an enhanced image – transformed the original Raw file from the 5D into a high dynamic range (HDR) image using Photomatix Pro and cropped to a 16:9 form factor.

Teardrop Trailer (Single Image HDR)

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Goodbye Saab! Thanks for the Memories…

Sad to read this week that we’re at the end of the line for Sweden’s Saab – as GM failed to find a suitable buyer and decided to shut the company down.

1968-saab-96-v4-brochure-cover.jpgMy first new car was a RED (!) 1968 Saab 96 V4 Deluxe – which my folks helped me buy new from Leif Lindzen Motors in Berkeley. I’ve still got one of the brochures for Summerflight (1969 edition) – which bundled in a trip to the factory in Sweden to actually pick up the car, drive it around that country and then leave it behind for shipment back to San Francisco. Cost (car + trip): $2,770.

Lots of fond memories of that trip – and, I suppose, I must have photos from it somewhere (!). I remember the flight over – it was mid-June, we took off in daylight, landed in daylight, the sun never set the whole way over. I went to sleep and woke up with the sun outside, didn’t know what time it was, look out the window at a clock tower across from the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, saw it was 3:45 and thought I’d missed a whole day of events. Turned out it was 3:45 AM, not PM!

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Red!

For the first time, I headed over to Stanford early this morning to the Concours d’Elegance sponsored by the Palo Alto Lions Club. This annual event brings together car fanciers (I’m actually not one!) from all over northern California. And, what an amazing assortment of cars they brought!

I was looking for a little “fun in the sun” with the Canon 5D Mark II camera – and enjoyed myself in spite of the relentless heat as the morning warmed continuously!

My full collection of Concours photos are available on Flickr. Below is my favorite – a very early morning shot of a Ferrari – all by itself on the field at the time.

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