The 2005 SCCA Rocky Mountain Division Solo2 Summer Series ended last week. Season highlights were finishing runner-up in Super Stock, and ‘trophying’ in a national level event. The Denver National Tour was the first time in many years that the SCCA has held a national event in Denver. Compared to 2004, I climbed one position in super stock to #2, and from #34 to #22 in overall driver standings. Hope to crack into the top 20 in 2006. That might be…
Indoor Equirectangular Panorama Tools I used a Nikon D200 and Sigma 8mm lense and hugin to assemble the image data. Background In the past, I’d used Arcsoft’s Panoramamaker. Hugin is more difficult to use, but can handle image sets and scenarios that Panoramamaker would never be able to process. Method The first attached image is an equirectangular projection of six circular fish-eye images shot using an 8mm Sigma lense on the Nikon D200. The individual shots are taken facing north, south,…
The rocky mountain division 2004/2005 winter series ended yesterday. Event #1 – 1st in A-Street Tire, 18th of 77 drivers Event #2 – 2nd in Super Stock, 24th of 93 drivers Event #3 – 2nd in Super Stock, 34th of 170 drivers Event #4 – 2nd in Super Stock, 9th of 167 drivers The last event of the winter marks the first time I’ve finished in the top-ten overall. Equally exciting was crushing the Lotus Elise. For the last year,…
Dad was very generous and allowed me to borrow his S600 for a day, so I took it to the Rocky Mountain Division Winter Series SoloII Event #1 of the 2004/2005 season. Several people thought this was a joke. A week before the event, when I pre-registered to enter the car into the event, I got an email saying “so.. you think you have that Mercedes classed right in F-Stock? LOL”. Other cars in F-Stock include the Mustang Mach I,…
My father just picked up a Nikon 8000 slide/negative scanner. The following images were shot in film and scanned with a Nikon 2000. The images are shrunk to 1/16th the size of the originals. If you shoot with large format analog film, it is capable of scanning images at a resolution of 13,176×10,000 pixels with a bit depth of 16 bits per color channel. That’s 791MB uncompressed per image, yet it doesn’t capture as much detail as a professional drum scanner,…
There was a dark horse sponsored by Wimpy’s Antigravitational Machines, campaigning a Z06 at the 2004 national championships: http://www.scca.com/Event/Event.asp?Ref=04-solonats In a class where anything from the Lotus Esprit Turbo to the Dodge Viper is allowed, the competition is 45 Z06’s, 1 996 and an rx-7.
Performance * 0-60: 4.9s * 1/4mi: 13.7s @ 102mph * 300ft Skidpad: 0.99g * 148mph Specifications * 1.8L 4cyl * 190hp @ 7800 RPM * 138ft-lbs @ 6800 RPM * 1975lbs * 205/45ZR16 front, 245/40ZR17 rear
You only get to compete in rookie class once. The rocky mountain division 2004 summer series ended yesterday. Event Results * Event #1 – 7th in Super Stock. Indexed 31st of 103 novices, 169th of 295 drivers * Event #2 – 7th in Super Stock, Indexed 24th of 75 novices, 138th of 216 drivers * Event #3 – 5th in Super Stock, Indexed 14th of 31 novices, 124th of 168 drivers * Event #4 – 5th in Super Stock, Indexed…
Here’s a few pics of the event last night, shot with the D100 with 2x tele-extender + 500 mm lense. As the moon falls into the earth’s shadow: As the last bit of direct sunlight disappears from the moon and total eclipse occurs: Illuminated only by ambient light and the glow of light refracted around the edges of the earth:
Climbed Mt. Royal this weekend. This is a small peak at the very end of the 10-mile Range above Frisco. The 10-mile range continues to the south and includes some impressive peaks including some of Colorado’s 14’ers. This particular peak is barely 10,500, but it shoots vertically up from the edge of Main St. in town, providing some nice views of the town and lake Dillon. An extreme telephoto zoom of Jeanya, standing on the side balcony of my parent’s…