A few days ago I was invited out to the Shannonville racetrack which is a few hours outside of Toronto for some shake down runs of Dave Briggs new 350z. Dave has been running a S14 in the DMCC series and many American Pro Am events for a few years. With the step up to Formula D it was also time to step up the ride.

My day started out at 4am when I had to get up and make my way to my buddy Kevins place to then make the 3.5 hour ride to the track. We were both pretty excited to see this car run since we have both followed the build up since the start. When we first got to the track it there was a lack of sound.. We then saw the 350z limping back into the pits..Turns out a little mechanical issue put a pause on the testing. It was not a huge deal and while the crew worked on the car I was able to take the the time to get a good look of the car.

The ASD parts are so nice..

Cant beat running HRE’s!

The car is a sick Candy Red.. Looks soo good in the sun.

Dave was taking it easy while his crew got the car back into running order..

But he got bored of that and decided to take his dads car for a little spin on track..

By the time Dave came back into the pits the car was pretty much good to go. Just hearing that Nascar V8 start up was insane! With that Dave and his crew official started their test session.. With the first round of FD fast approaching they want to get the car dialed in as fast as they can.

I was amazed with how much smoke the Falkens were producing.

The Shannonville race track is pretty cool because of all the different lay outs that are available..Dave was able to try the car in a few different track set ups to see how the car would react.

Near the end of the day Dave was getting some crazy angle.

That made his crew chief happy..lol

With some more seat time Dave will be pretty much set for the first round..and it seems like I will be following them there..so it should be good!

Every monday night my team ( Team Overdosed ) hold a car meet called the JDM Mondays..Its a huge meet that has gotten even bigger over the years ( you can read the whole story in the next issue of PAS Mag ) and Im there every monday shooting the cars.

Even tho the meets are called “JDM Mondays” All types of cars show up. Like this flat silver AMG.

Its crazy that every week about 500 or more cars show up to these meets.

Check out the gallery from last night.

Our car season has not been too great so far.we have been getting a lot of rain so a bunch of the events Id usually be shooting got cancelled.. BUT I did not forget about my project and finally had a chance to whip out my Canon point and shoot and try it to shoot some drifting.



I was not able to shoot to long with it since it did start to rain and I dont trust it in the wet as well as my SLR bodies..lol Again I find this helps to show that its not the camera but the person holding it that makes the difference.

With spring finally here I can start updating my blog again! We had a really crappy few weeks were a bunch of the weekly events I shoot got cancelled because of rain.

Check out the galleries of what Ive been up to so far this spring.

http://montrealracing.com/vbgallery/browseimages.php?c=1003

Hey guys..getting more and more content up on my page.. check it out

http://www.facebook.com/pages/JagImaging/183253467144

I was bored one night so figured to try out some light painting with my little Canon PS. The light painting is not 100% good but it was freezing out ( -17 ) so I did what I could before I couldnt feel my hands anymore.. Again..just showing that its skill( the little bit I have..lol ) that can pull off photos and not the camera..

Well after doing some tests with the camera I found a slight problem. The smallest aperture is only f8 which causes a problem when trying to do panning shots during the middle of the day.. My solution was to simply ( so I thought) add a ND or a polarizing filter to the front of the lens to cut down the light entering the camera which would let me shoot slower with out blowing out the exposure. There was only one slight issue…my nice little Canon point and shoot does not have any filter threads on the lens and Canon does not make any adapters either..I found one online but it really did not look all that great anyway..soo I decided to make my own.. With some scrap pieces of plastic, some ND paper for hot lights and some crazy glue I made myself a little filter holder.

I does look ghetto but it works great and also allows me to add more ND filters if I want to really cut light out..for let say a point and shoot rig shot

With it being winter and all I do not have that many chances to shoot for my “project” has been going slow.. I did have the chance to shoot a rally cross but it was freaking cold so I was not able to get as many shots as I wanted. So far Im VERY pleased with how everything is turning out with my not so expensive camera. One thing I have found is that the cam does not have a small enough aperture to pull off good panning shots in day time. Im going to make a filter holder for the front of it so that I can add a ND filter or two..Check out a few shots I took with it at the rally cross..There is also a few fun pics I took in my back yard and one shot I took at a press conference.. I was zoomed out to the max and the lighting was bad..but I still think it came out good..

Check out the new issue of Wrecked Magazine ( since your on this site Im sure you did already ) Id like to thank Joey for doing a feature on me..Its really cool!!

One thing that really bugs me about being a professional photographer is the amount of people that think they can do it too just because they have a DSLR camera or think that us Pro’s only get nice shots because we use cameras that are worth more then most peoples cars. So for the fun of it I decided to launch project NPYMUHAGC…it stands for ” Nice Photo, You Must have a Good Camera”

Basically this is just a fun project for me to help show people that its not the camera that makes the difference but the photographer. So thanks to boxing day specials I picked up a 200$ Canon point and shoot camera ( yes a Canon on top of that..lol ) and I plan on using it pretty much all the time on photoshoots and while shooting events. Im very exited to see what I can produce with this little camera, First thing I get to shoot a winter rally cross event..should be fun.