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Laguna Seca Race Weekend

The Monterey Peninsula is one of the most beautiful places in California and home to the Weathertech Laguna Seca race track, which is a great place to watch a race. If you enjoy taking pictures of race cars, access at this stunning track is perfect. You can walk all around and in some places get fairly close, unfettered views of the action. And the famous Corkscrew is just a stunning place to experience auto racing.

The GTD class was won by Alvaro Parente and Katherine Legge bringing her closer to a potential Championship this season. And the legendary Bobby Rahal, the R in Team RLL, saw his team win their second consecutive Championship race in the number 25 BMW driven by Connor De Phillippi and Alexander Sims.

Acura NSX-GT3 driven by Katherine Legge and Alvaro Parente – WINNER GTD Class

Team RLL BMW M8 GTE driven by Connor De Phillippi and Alexander Sims WINNER GTLM class

Mazda RT24 driven by Oliver Jarvis and Tristen Nunez

Mercedes s-AMG GT4 driven by Bryce Ward and Christian Hohendel

JDC-Miller Motorsports Oreca LMP2 overtakes the Ferrari 499 GT3 from Scuderia Corsa

Whelan Engineering Racing 31 driven by Felipe Nasr and Eric Curran

Acura Prototype driven by Helio Castroneves and Ricky Taylor

Ford Mustang GT4 driven by Alan Brynjolfsson and Trent Hindman

Oreca 07 driven by Chris Miller and Stephen Simpson

Mini JCW driven by Mark Pombo and Colin Mullan

Oreca LMP2 driven by Sebastian Saavedra and Gustavo Yacamán

Mini JCW driven by Mat Pombo and Mike LaMarra

Mercedes-AMG GT4 driven by Hugh Plumb and Owen Trinkler

Aston Martin Vantage driven by Rob Ecklin Jr and Brandon Kidd

Mercedes-AMG GT3 driven by Ben Keating and Jeroen Bleekmolen – 2nd place GTD class

JDC-Miller Motorsport #85 driven by Simon Trummer and Robert Alon

Mazda RT24 driven by Jonathon Bomarito and Harry Tinknell

Aston Martin Vantage driven by Gary Ferrera and Kris Wilson

Nissan DPi driven by Johannes van Overbeek and Pipo Derani

Chevroley Corvette C7.R driven by Jan Magnussen and Antonio García

Breaking Bread

To break bread is to come together informally for social interaction, usually over a meal or drinks. Breaking Bread is a web series I developed with Gina Ruccione. The concept is that a group of strangers come together over a meal prepared by a great chef in a comfortable surrounding, and potentially leave as friends.

Our first episode, which featured an Italian Modern meal prepared by Dustin Trani of Doma Restaurant in Beverly Hills had it’s premiere at the San Pedro International Film Festival. The meal was seafood driven and finished up with a wonderful duck breast, and was served at the Studio of Eugene Daub and Anne Olsen in San Pedro, CA (as were the still photos of Gina). The epsiode can be streamed below.

Breaking Bread episode 1: Italian Modern from Jeff Gatesman on Vimeo.

The web series Breaking Bread was developed by Gina Ruccione and Jeff Gatesman
Hosted by Gina Ruccione
Cinematography and Editing by Jeff Gatesman
Hair and Makeup by Janice Bremec Blum

Independence Day 2017

How unique and fantastic our American celebration of Independence is! Each year we get together with friends and family, picnic, barbecue, drink beer, listen to music and… of course watch and blow off fireworks.

Happy Independence 2017 America!

Lucha Va Voom Halloween show

Masked wrestlers in a spectacle of mayhem and high-flying antics! See my photos here.

Some of my images from the Lucha Va Voom Halloween show last week. Masked wrestlers perform in a spectacle of mayhem and high flying antics. To see more images and purchase a print, click here.

all images owned and copyrighted by Gatesman Photography. For licensing or prints go here.

First Twilight Concert of 2016

The first Twilight Concert at the Santa Monica Pier was last night featuring Mayer Hawthorne and it was one of the more packed shows I have been to. It was so crowded that I couldn’t actually get up on the pier, so I wandered around near the pier and made these images. As always, click on the images so get a larger view.

Smoke Free

After more than 10 years of living life as a reformed smoker, I wanted to look into what made it such a draw for me. I wanted to explore what made me love it so that in the face of a true health risk I would continue to do it. Smoke Free is a double entendre shot entirely at 240 frames per second, and includes portraits of the people I interviewed.

I just love how relaxing and hypnotic it is…

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Universal Vibration

Meggan Riley is a yoga instructor with an interesting past. Universal Vibration is one in a series of Micro Documentaries I have made.

A Micro Doc is my idea of speed dating for documentaries: you get a really fast look at someone fascinating. Think of it as media snacking for a fast paced, mobile-centric world.

Venice Vintage Motorcycle Rally

It was a hot Saturday in Los Angeles this past weekend for sure, but even hotter were the girls, the music and the bikes at this years’ annual Venice Vintage Motorcycle Rally sponsored by the Venice Vintage Motorcycle Club. Here are some of the photos I took there.

Garrett Lee Robinson plays at the Venice Vintage Motorcycle Rally

New Indians at Venice Vintage Motorcycle Rally

Matt Rowe on Bass at the Venice Vintage Motorcycle Rally

Shooting the Sunset with Tanara

Friday, pre-happy hour drinks, my friend Tanara and I decided to walk out to the beach and see what kind of sunset we would get. It wasn’t too particularly spectacular, but at least it inspired Tanara into some moves. These are what we made. Click on the thumbnails to see a full size version.

Winter Street Photography – Chicago

I went for a walk around a very chilly Chicago with a couple of young photographers today, my niece Taylor and her friend Casey, to capture some street photography. We started in Chinatown, then went to the Water Tower, Lincoln Park, and ended up at Millennium Park. Here are some of the images I made…

And a shot of the young photographers…