Perhaps the coolest I had the opportunity to take part in was on the track. I didn't spend much time behind the lens but managed to sneak onto the track and get some good photos of this weekend's LOORRS Vegas race. I am completely digging this shot of an old desert racing friend Curt LeDuc. Just prior to the race, we chatted about some old race back in the SODA days and brought up an even older friend, Jean Calvin, the former world champion ice skater who founded Dusty Times.

Anyhow, since I'd been thinking about it lately, we hooked it up on a conversation about some of the best races we'd been to back east. A favorite emerged from my corner as an old Beaver Dam, Wisconsin race. Don't have much time to share notes on the dirt discussion but will unravel a quote from LeDuc himself.

"It may be raining Chevy Thunder, but we're winning with Ford."

That was ages ago. It was an extremely small track. The mud was well over knee deep on some spots on the track. Very few photographers were haning in there for the real shots. Actually, I cannot remember one photographer sticking it out for very long. Fortunately, I had a series of camera rain coats blanketing my set of Nikon F4S film cameras and the Nikon N90S I had as backup.

Anyhow, here's a shot of Curt LeDuc cutting it up before the throng of fans just shy of a Nevada sunset. So have it. It's your very own Rockstar Eneregy Wallpaper. It sports Toyo Tires, RC10.com R/C Cars, Makita Tools, K&N Filters, KC HiLites, King Shocks and some raging fans in the grandstands.

We hooked it up with our friends at Speed Technologies and Championship SuperLite Truck Series as well as the Metal Mulisha crew of Brian Deegan and an old friend Steve Barlow, who's sporting Red Bull attire and a hard charing Red Bull race truck. It's been a few years chatting with Barlow. Perhaps one day we'll have a video interview with his dad, Don Barlow, the old school off-road racing legend from the Fillmore Ford days, who once worked off-road race trucks with Ivan Stewart. We may be able to mix that into the lineup for the next LOORRS race or so. With any luck and planning, we could even have it live via video webcast.

Anyhow. It's time to hook and book. We're off for the 2010 San Felipe 250. We're aiming to get some San Felipe 250 photos and ought to be back sometime Sunday evening.

So until then. Get the roost. And dig the photography. But never forget I'm for hire.