Car Photography – Gatesman Photograpy

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

Two Pontiacs entered into the Spider Awards

The Black and White Spider Awards is the leading international award honoring black and white photography. This year I submitted two of my car images, both classic Pontiacs. Click on the thumbnails to get the full view.

Black and White image I made of a 51 Pontiac at the Culver City Car Show — 51 Pontiac

Black and white image I made of a 57 Pontiac — 57 Pontiac

Photographing cars has always been one of my favorite things to do outside of actually driving them, and classics are the best kinds of cars in my mind. I just love their curves and all the chrome, I mean if Bling is your thing, the makers of these cars did it over the top and yet, with some elegant style.

I think these two images in black and white are a testament to the timeless beauty of these machines. I hope you agree.

Culver City Car Show

The car show that takes over the main street in Culver City every year is one of my favorites. There are usually a selection of George Barris creations, some cool music and of course, some great cars. Here are a couple of images I made this weekend.

Culver Car Show hood ornament — Land Shark

Stingray at the Culver City Car Show — Corvette Stingray

Chopped top classic car — Woman in classic chop top

Monterey Auto Week and Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance

Monterey Auto Week has got to be one of the finest collections of rolling art on the planet and the pinnacle of the entire week is the Concours d’Elegance where 175 of the finest collector cars in the world roll onto the legendary 18th fairway at Pebble Beach.

I was there this past week to shoot some 3D car footage with the guys from 21st Century 3D, but managed to get a few stills of my own during a frantic week of chasing cars all over the peninsula.
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