Shot just as the sun was setting I aimed for a moody picture in terms of the general exposure and also made sure those signature Audi headlights were exposed correctly.

Click the picture if you want to view it larger and watch this space for more Audi A1 pictures as soon as the magazine they are for leaves the printing press.

Although I’m more of a water-cooled Volkswagen guy and despite the fact that I only managed to squeeze in a short visit on Sunday, I have no trouble seeing why over 2000 people chose to attend. This show is probably one of the most laid back and welcoming I’ve ever attended, and holds a great mix of untouched original cars, true show&shine winners, serious race cars and everything in between. Around 1000 classic beetles, buses, ghias and whatnot were either on display in the Club area, the Vintage Village or battled it out on the raceway.

Some of the highlights in the show area was the Ghia below, a drivable Samba that just last year sat at the bottom of a lake where it had resided for several decades and rather large collection of Karmann Cabriolet’s .

The raceway saw broken drive shafts, blown engines, cracked transmissions and two  new world records. Team Skinne and their beetle did a jaw dropping  8,60 – 272km/h. run thus being the worlds fastest VW pan streetcar and the  Team CSP clocked in at 8.855/250.00km/h making their Ghia the worlds fastest car with a VW engine case.

The SCC also reports a huge number of rookies on the drag strip this year. World records they may not have set, but with SCC beeing the friendly and welcoming show it is, racing what you bring is encouraged, and a total of 500 passes were made this year with everything from stock cars to the all out racers.

Congratulations to the SCC crew on yet another great show, See you next year as well!

Also, Click on any of the images to get to the album where even more pictures are to be seen!

So, when my friend Bernhard over at Brynildsen Autospa got this 360 Modena in for a thorough detailing I just had to stop by. Now, as I said, the pictures I took of this car can’t be described as anywhere near work of art, but then again I don’t think any pictures really does this Ferrari justice. The precence it gives, from the delicate lines and from it’s sheer size isn’t easy to capture on camera. Neither is the incredible sound of the 3.6 litre V8 displayed under a glass the glass hood. It doesn’t even have to pass halfway through its 10 000 rpm range before it gives you goosebumps. Absolutely amazing!

Now, I promised you guys a full shoot on the car some time ago, but unfortunately I had to do another last minute shoot with a Jaguar that day, and by the time I got to the Ferrari it was all most midnight and we were loosing light rapidly. In addition to the fact that shooting a black car at night isn’t easy I had to go home and pack for my vacation to Spain. So you’ll have to to with these three images… sorry…

Oh yeah, while you are at it. Check out Bernhards thread on the detailing over at Detailers Club Norway to see another work of art. The text there is in norwegian, but the pictures he put up shows that work he did on the car can be described as a work of art in itself.

This set was shot for Treffpunkt magazine and got both the cover (with the most cheesy composite sky ever) and a 4 page spread. All exterior pictures are shot with natural light and the Canon 70-200 2.8 IS and the interior and engine ones are lit with 2-3 Canon flashes. I hope you enjoy. And do browse to the bottom, there’s a bonus picture for  you guys there ;)

There are some more pictures on flickr, you get there by clicking either image. Larger ones can also be viewed there. Hope you enjoy them

Now, going back to look at old shoots can be useful though. I can see how I’ve progressed as a photographer and how my pp-skills have evolved. And I might find an image that really should have been put to better use than just being buried deep down in the archives, like yesterday when I browsed through the images of Bjørn’s extremely clean ’55 Chevy 210.

Originally this shot wasn’t included in the batch I sent to the client, but with some minor editing I feel it came out pretty nice. Also, seeing how many hits I get from the searches on ’55 Chevy’s I want to share.

Between breaking my 70-200 L 2.8 IS lens, buying a 25$umbrella, catching a cold and getting caught and fined 500$ by the police for speeding on my way home I managed to take some 1200 pictures. Stay tuned for more pictures.

Marius bought the car brand and it was one of the first to be delivered in Norway. Marius wasted no time and started modifying his Candy White 1.4TFSI the moment he got it from the dealer. Coilovers were fitted and a set of snow tires were sourced in order to try the car out. When the snow melted 19×8,5 Porsche 997 Turbo rims replaced the snow tires and it didn’t go long before he also got hold og some massive 6pot Porsche Cayenne Turbo brakes to match the rims.

Stopping power was now adequate for Marius’ frequent visits to local tracks with the Scirocco, but he wasn’t content with the handling even though the car already sat on H&R Monotube coilovers. A set og H&R Sway bars took care of that, and the 1.4 160 bhp car surprised a lot of high power cars with its superior handling at the tracks.

Clicking on either one of the pictures will bring you to the set on flickr where you can view the pictures even bigger.
Oh yeah, also worth mentioning is that the car is up for sale. Check out the listing and hurry if you want to buy it. I’ve heard there are several others that want the car!

The French owner and his friends were great guys, but the task of producing images that would do the car justice seemed quite impossible. So impossible I’ve even put of processing the pictures for a long time. I just didn’t know how to do them. But watching a movie the other day I knew how they had to look. The RS6 is just like the main character in the movie Book of Eli featuring Denzel Washington- Understated, yet immensely powerful!  I knew I had to do more post work to them than I usually do and If you’ve seen them movie you can tell me if you think i succeded in recreating some of the mood from the film.

More pictures in the KlutchOnline Feature and on my Flickr and clicking the pictures will make you able to view them larger.

But take them for what they are and I hope you enjoy them.

More pictures in this album here