{"id":1911,"date":"2008-06-13T09:09:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T07:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/13\/le-mans-2008-pit-stand\/"},"modified":"2008-06-13T20:31:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T18:31:20","slug":"le-mans-2008-pit-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/13\/le-mans-2008-pit-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Mans 2008 (pit stand)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a good example of a photographic opportunity caught at the right time. I am going to the first qualification runs of the 24h of Le Mans (endurance car race in the West of France). Of course, I did not forget to bring some photo hardware with me, even if I was told that the wire meshes are everywhere on auto race tracks.<\/p>\n<p>And, while the weather seemed crappy for most of the day, we have an early evening with a superb light. I grab my brand new second-hand Minolta APO G 400mm tele-lens in order to move back and shoot over the metal obstacles (sometimes, under the up-turned corner of a metal net). Here is the result caught by my Sony Alpha 700, the best images I could catch in the stands: A place where there is always something happening -at least before the race itself.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/images\/2008\/LeMans\/_DSC0899w.jpg' title='Team waiting (Le Mans 2008)'><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/images\/2008\/LeMans\/_DSC0899t.jpg' alt='Team waiting (Le Mans 2008)' \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/images\/2008\/LeMans\/_DSC0895w.jpg' title='Solitude of the pilot (Le Mans 2008)'><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/images\/2008\/LeMans\/_DSC0895t.jpg' alt='Solitude of the pilot (Le Mans 2008)' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/images\/2008\/LeMans\/_DSC0912w.jpg' title='pit stand'><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/images\/2008\/LeMans\/_DSC0912t.jpg' alt='pit stand' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/images\/2008\/LeMans\/_DSC0890w.jpg' title='pit stand'><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/images\/2008\/LeMans\/_DSC0890t.jpg' alt='pit stand' \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/images\/2008\/LeMans\/_DSC0860w.jpg' title='pit stand'><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/images\/2008\/LeMans\/_DSC0860t.jpg' alt='pit stand' \/><\/a><br \/>Click on the thumbnails image to enlarge them<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Some of these images can be acquired as <strong>posters<\/strong> or as <strong>laminated prints<\/strong> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbubble.com\/people\/roumazeilles\">RedBubble<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>24 heures du Mans, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a good example of a photographic opportunity caught at the right time. I am going to the first qualification runs of the 24h of Le Mans (endurance car race in the West of France). Of course, I did not forget to bring some photo hardware with me, even if I was told that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,901],"tags":[906,904,118,908,899,909,903,907,2278,910,911,912],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo","category-sport","tag-24-heures","tag-car","tag-competition","tag-endurance","tag-le-mans","tag-pit-stand","tag-prototype","tag-race","tag-sport","tag-stand","tag-support","tag-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}