G'day from Bristol UK

Daz

Senior Member
Hi i'm Darren from Bristol in the UK, I have been on the forum about 3 weeks and have posted a couple times but not done a formal introduction

I have been shooting for at least 10 years and about 9 months ago took the plunge whilst on Holiday in Singapore to take advantage of the Currency and get a D3300, since then I have built up my kit to Include some zooms and a Prime lens

I am an all rounder shooter, I have done lots of portraits, but my favorite things to Shoot is any Motorsport, I have been lucky enough to go and shoot the World Endurance at Spa and Silverstone and I just got back from the Catalan F1 test where I hired a Bigma 50-500mm to take with me

I am looking at Upgrading my camera to a D7100 in the next couple months, I am off to Aus in May so I am thinking of taking advantage of the Strong Pound and GST reduction
 

RocketCowboy

Senior Member
Howdy Darren and welcome to Nikonites!

I would love to catch some track time around Spa and Silverstone, either for F1 or WSB and MotoGP! It was F1 that taught me how slow my original 35mm lenses really were. :)
 

Daz

Senior Member
Howdy Darren and welcome to Nikonites!

I would love to catch some track time around Spa and Silverstone, either for F1 or WSB and MotoGP! It was F1 that taught me how slow my original 35mm lenses really were. :)

Thanks for the welcome I consider myself quite lucky to be in the UK with so many great tracks at my feet, I started shooting with a Bridge camera and quickly found out it wouldn't keep up with a GT around Silverstone let alone an LMP1 or F1

I was glad that I hired the longer lens for the F1 trip, I would have got away with my 70-300 but it was great to have better glass, just makes me want to buy one for myself now lol

You have one of my favorite tracks at your feet, I would love to shoot at COTA with all the elevation changes !!

Here is one of my favorite photos I took at Catalunya

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kevy73

Senior Member
Bristol University... down the road a bit in Cheddar, Bath - soooo many awesome places to take pics around you there!

Born in Headley Park here.
 

Daz

Senior Member
Bristol University... down the road a bit in Cheddar, Bath - soooo many awesome places to take pics around you there!

Born in Headley Park here.

Ahh I hate bath, I deliver there and its horrible, I do need to get out and shoot more, there are a group of us getting together next weekend to just shoot so watch this space ...

You have done what I want to do ! hopefully ill be in Aus in a couple years :)
 

Lawrence

Senior Member
Hello Daz. Welcome to the forum.
Having myself just upgraded to the D7100 I can honestly say "DON'T!"
Well not unless you want to fall in love with a beautiful inanimate machine ...
 
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