Bringing Historic meetings 'Alive' here!

[John Turner]

An exchange of posts on another thread, with Dex, has initiated a (rare!) thought in my mind!

As you know, whenever I attend a race meeting, I click around like mad, taking pics in pit and paddock and later in the day, try to grab a few 'action' (I use that word advisedly!) shots from the spectators side of the perimeter fence. I then post a few on the appropriate thread here. I accept that the quality is not particularly good, especially those 'action' shots since I'm only using an ordinary small zoom on the same digital camera I use for the close ups. The whole idea is simply to give flavour, or 'life' to the meeting for those reading and posting here. I leave the quality stuff to the professionals, some of whom do pop across here from time to time!

I use a 2 year old Fujifilm S5000 for all my shots and keep it at its highest setting (6M) which means, of course, that you get the highest resolution, but the lowest number of shots per memory card. The great benefit of digital is that you can delete shots that you don't like, immediately, and you can trim and enhance others using a suitable application on your PC.

So, this is really an invite or encouragement to anyone who fancies it to start their own thread (or add to one already started) on any historic meeting they have attended and put on a few pics, as I do, to bring these 'Alive' for the rest of us. It doesn't have to be of professional quality to achieve this, so is there anyone out there who feels an urge to do this? I do hope so.

Any other comments or suggestions about this?