I know I have done the Gold Cup to death but here are some more!!

Matt Sayle

Matt Sayle

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THis thread is just for the Saloon cars as they were very entertaining!! There all samey but there is plenty of action!

1. Ford Anglia pan
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2. BMW hanging it all out
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3. Hillman Imp. Look in the background.
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4. A mini having a battle
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5. Cortina on full attack mode.
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6. Another 'tina
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7. 'tina battle to finish things off.
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C and C

Thanks
Matt

BTW this IS THE last lot!

Promise.
 
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I really like the one of the very out of shape Imp, just how wrong did it go just after that shot was taken? Perhaps he was dodging the filth coming out of the exhaust of the one in front?
 
dolomitefan said:
I really like the one of the very out of shape Imp, just how wrong did it go just after that shot was taken? Perhaps he was dodging the filth coming out of the exhaust of the one in front?
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Hehe, he went the cornor perfectly some how. Didnt even go on the grass!!

Thank you!
 
Number 5 really caught my eye too.

The only nit pick that I have is the tyre wall being visible in the foreground on 1 (and slightly in 2), it would have cropped out OK without altering the composition too much...
 
Craikeybaby said:
Number 5 really caught my eye too.

The only nit pick that I have is the tyre wall being visible in the foreground on 1 (and slightly in 2), it would have cropped out OK without altering the composition too much...
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I though I had cropped it out of number 2 :bang:

When I cropped 1, there was a big black area at the top of the frame!!

Thank you!
 
I prefer no. 7 to no. 5. I just prefer landscape shots to portrait. No.2 does nothing for me only because the car itself is uninteresting.
 
I like #5 too but the angular has the edge ( :D ) for me (y)
 
kingy said:
LOL!! Another Matt Sayle thread! No 6 is the winner for me. I like 5 but the OOF back end of car 46 is distracting :(
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:LOL:

THank you, it is a shame about that :(

pugwash said:
Great shots well done again.
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Thank you!!

nilagin said:
I prefer no. 7 to no. 5. I just prefer landscape shots to portrait. No.2 does nothing for me only because the car itself is uninteresting.
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Thank you!!

Fairy nuff.

Cobra said:
I like #5 too but the angular has the edge ( :D ) for me (y)
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Oh dear

Thank you.
 
That shot of them imps is amazing.

Was going to go to this but I had no money for petrol, fell asleep on the wrong nightbus on the way home from town and woke up in Wigan so spent all my money on a taxi lol

Had free tickets too :crying:
 
Some of these people know nothing. Lotus Cortinas are white, no other colour, just white. That is an indisputable fact. If it's red, it's not a Lotus Cortina; it's red car with a Lotus Cortina badge.

Now that you've come up with #1, here's the Jim Clark story. When Jim drove for Lotus, Colin Chapman would give him a car to get home to the Borders each week end. One day, Jim asks Colin for the car and Colin leads Jim to an Anglia that was the same shape as the one in #1. Jim takes one look at it and says the sixties version of No Way. Chapman undoes the bonnet and shows Jim the engine. It's the prototype for the Lotus Cortina. Jim said that he never got from Norwich to the Borders so quickly nor with more fun.

All the pictures are great and #7 is my favourite because white Lotus Cortinas are iconic and you've captured it well.
 
rh1944 said:
Some of these people know nothing. Lotus Cortinas are white, no other colour, just white. That is an indisputable fact. If it's red, it's not a Lotus Cortina; it's red car with a Lotus Cortina badge.
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Good point, but how do we know that any of the shots above are Lotus cortina's? And not just 2 door chassis with a paint job?:shrug:
 
kingy said:
Good point, but how do we know that any of the shots above are Lotus cortina's? And not just 2 door chassis with a paint job?:shrug:
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The program lists #46 (the red one) as a Ford Lotus Cortina and #49 (the white one) as a Lotus Cortina. There are Ford Cortina's listed too which would indicate some differentiation, but whether the HSCC checks these things I don't know.

Matt, I'm not surprised you're proud of all these shots, you've done a cracking job. Your best event yet and yet another big improvement.

#5 is my pick of this bunch too, but you've got a black rectangle along the top of it. Looks like you moved your crop selection off the top of the image.
 
kingy said:
Good point, but how do we know that any of the shots above are Lotus cortina's? And not just 2 door chassis with a paint job?:shrug:
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At least they had the good sense to buy a Lotus Cortina badge and stick it on the radiator grill in the correct place. ;)
 
No5 is a fantastic capture, great foreground action and some interest in the background without it being distracting. I do however agree with badgerbaiter, you could probably have compressed all the good photos into one thread and consigned the ok photos to your own personal photo vault.
 
badgerbaiter said:
number 5 is probably your best shot yet! really liking that one

be careful, though, not to over saturate the forum. there is such a thing as having too much of a good thing :)
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Was thinking excatly the same on both accounts.

Time to get a web gallery i think to upload and direct people too, rather then massive amounts of threads from the same event (y)
 
Albino-jay said:
That shot of them imps is amazing.

Was going to go to this but I had no money for petrol, fell asleep on the wrong nightbus on the way home from town and woke up in Wigan so spent all my money on a taxi lol

Had free tickets too :crying:
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Thank you.

Sorry to rub it in but it wsa a great meeting. I had free tickets to!!

rh1944 said:
Some of these people know nothing. Lotus Cortinas are white, no other colour, just white. That is an indisputable fact. If it's red, it's not a Lotus Cortina; it's red car with a Lotus Cortina badge.

Now that you've come up with #1, here's the Jim Clark story. When Jim drove for Lotus, Colin Chapman would give him a car to get home to the Borders each week end. One day, Jim asks Colin for the car and Colin leads Jim to an Anglia that was the same shape as the one in #1. Jim takes one look at it and says the sixties version of No Way. Chapman undoes the bonnet and shows Jim the engine. It's the prototype for the Lotus Cortina. Jim said that he never got from Norwich to the Borders so quickly nor with more fun.

All the pictures are great and #7 is my favourite because white Lotus Cortinas are iconic and you've captured it well.
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Great story!!

Hehe, senstive area is it? 'Tinas?

Thank you!

mick johnson said:
Nice shot's Matt, like No5 the best.

Looks like Jeremy Clarkson in that second Imp? :D
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Thank you!

Hehe, yeah he does!!

kingy said:
Good point, but how do we know that any of the shots above are Lotus cortina's? And not just 2 door chassis with a paint job?:shrug:
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You just have to beleive!!

bod said:
The program lists #46 (the red one) as a Ford Lotus Cortina and #49 (the white one) as a Lotus Cortina. There are Ford Cortina's listed too which would indicate some differentiation, but whether the HSCC checks these things I don't know.

Matt, I'm not surprised you're proud of all these shots, you've done a cracking job. Your best event yet and yet another big improvement.

#5 is my pick of this bunch too, but you've got a black rectangle along the top of it. Looks like you moved your crop selection off the top of the image.
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Thank you very much!!

Didnt see that :bang:

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At least they had the good sense to buy a Lotus Cortina badge and stick it on the radiator grill in the correct place. ;)
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hehe.

Bumph GB said:
No5 is a fantastic capture, great foreground action and some interest in the background without it being distracting. I do however agree with badgerbaiter, you could probably have compressed all the good photos into one thread and consigned the ok photos to your own personal photo vault.
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Thank you!! Yeah I know but I am very proud of my work and I like to show it off lol. Your safe until next year. THat was the last 'big' event!!

russdaz said:
Was thinking excatly the same on both accounts.

Time to get a web gallery i think to upload and direct people too, rather then massive amounts of threads from the same event (y)
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I am looking into a website so dont worry :LOL:
 
I think we're all proud of our work otherwise why would we post it, but we do need to learn to be self critical, out of any one hundred photos i take i'll be surprised if ten make it into a thread.
It tends to work out for me that i'll take roughly a hundred shots on a fairly busy outing. Out of them 10 to 20 will get processed and posting will narrow my favourites down to around two thirds of them.
To me, there is a huge difference between a good shot and one that is ok, i think you can tell the difference too. You seem to have a great deal of appreciation for your close up badge and engine shots and you really make the effort to land the focal points in the right areas.
So far as i can tell, you specialise in two separate styles of a similar genre, and if you applied your self critique to your main subject i think you could really be onto something.
Please don't take any criticism personally, you have a talent and commitment that i never had at your age or for that matter even now. But, just because you got a car in focus doesn't necessarily mean its a winner. I cant remember who the member is but someone on here has the signature "A good photographer never shows you his bad photgraphs" or something along those lines, you need to learn what doesnt work. Imo.
 
Bumph GB said:
I think we're all proud of our work otherwise why would we post it, but we do need to learn to be self critical, out of any one hundred photos i take i'll be surprised if ten make it into a thread.
It tends to work out for me that i'll take roughly a hundred shots on a fairly busy outing. Out of them 10 to 20 will get processed and posting will narrow my favourites down to around two thirds of them.
To me, there is a huge difference between a good shot and one that is ok, i think you can tell the difference too. You seem to have a great deal of appreciation for your close up badge and engine shots and you really make the effort to land the focal points in the right areas.
So far as i can tell, you specialise in two separate styles of a similar genre, and if you applied your self critique to your main subject i think you could really be onto something.
Please don't take any criticism personally, you have a talent and commitment that i never had at your age or for that matter even now. But, just because you got a car in focus doesn't necessarily mean its a winner. I cant remember who the member is but someone on here has the signature "A good photographer never shows you his bad photgraphs" or something along those lines, you need to learn what doesnt work. Imo.
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Point taken. I will be harsher in future!!
 
rh1944 said:
Some of these people know nothing. Lotus Cortinas are white, no other colour, just white. That is an indisputable fact. If it's red, it's not a Lotus Cortina; it's red car with a Lotus Cortina badge.

Now that you've come up with #1, here's the Jim Clark story. When Jim drove for Lotus, Colin Chapman would give him a car to get home to the Borders each week end. One day, Jim asks Colin for the car and Colin leads Jim to an Anglia that was the same shape as the one in #1. Jim takes one look at it and says the sixties version of No Way. Chapman undoes the bonnet and shows Jim the engine. It's the prototype for the Lotus Cortina. Jim said that he never got from Norwich to the Borders so quickly nor with more fun.
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The racing colours of Alan Mann Racing is Red and Gold and repainted their Lotus Cortinas in those colours as they did the other cars the team ran. It was discovered that the original gold paint actually contained gold dust too, something restorers haven't bothered to replicate.

The Jim Clark/Colin Chapman story I heard was that Jim Clark had told Colin Chapman that the A frame mounting was moving on his Lotus Cortina when cornering hard. Colin, not believing this, was invited by Jim to sit in the back of the car whilst Jim took the car out so he could see for himself. Now picture Colin sitting in the back of the car, no seat, sitting on the floor bracing himself against anything within reach, as Jim hurtled round the track turning to point behind him and shouting at Colin to look. When Jim stopped the car and got out Colin supposedly grabbed him by the throat and told him that if he ever did that again, he would kill him.
 
Good stuff Matt. Number 5 is a nice angle... something a little different, that I think works well with the cars in the background.

The saloons were quite entertaining... good value for money.

:)
 
pswillies said:
Good stuff Matt. Number 5 is a nice angle... something a little different, that I think works well with the cars in the background.

The saloons were quite entertaining... good value for money.

:)
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Thank you.

The saloons were one of the highlights of the day IMO. It was great to watch!
 
rh1944 said:
Some of these people know nothing. Lotus Cortinas are white, no other colour, just white. That is an indisputable fact. If it's red, it's not a Lotus Cortina; it's red car with a Lotus Cortina badge.
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errrrrmmmmm, not quite - there were a few road going MkIs that were red, the Alan Mann race cars were red and gold. They were also produced without the green stripe for use by the Police

As for the MkIIs? Well you could only get them in any one of the GT colours, and not a single one of them had a stripe when it left the factory - that was a dealer option would you believe!! Many many cars later had stripes added, and some (mine included) had a complete colour change to white and green
 
kingy said:
Good point, but how do we know that any of the shots above are Lotus cortina's? And not just 2 door chassis with a paint job?:shrug:
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chances are that these cars are 2dr Cortinas that have been given Lotus Cortina IDs
 
nilagin said:
It was discovered that the original gold paint actually contained gold dust too, something restorers haven't bothered to replicate.
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Alan Mann has recently denied this - Retro Ford Mag have just had a massive feature on XOO 349F, one of their fleet of MkI Escorts that included an interview with Alan himself
 
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Matt Sayle said:
Thank you.

The saloons were one of the highlights of the day IMO. It was great to watch!
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I love getting to see the old 60s saloon cars go racing, somehow (for me anyway) they have alot more interest than cars even just 10 years younger. Just wish I could get out to see them more often

Great pics there Matt, especially liking all of the Cortina shots - genuine Twinks or otherwise :D
 
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