Vodafone 360 and Dita Von Teese

Posted by McAWilliams in photography      9 comments

Sep
24

Well what a day, busy in work but the excitement for me was at 2pm today, where I was invited as a blogger to the launch of Vodafone 360. What an amazing device it seems to be, totally down my road since it is a social media whore on a very nice samsung phone.

But as a photoblogger why would I be excited, well Dita Von Teese was going to be there too. Happy days for my camera, or at least that wa the plan, its a shame though that one of the PR companies for Vodafone did not want me to take any photos of the event itself which for me as a photoblogger took all the fun out of it.

Ah well I got one shot in before being told this and yes Dita is a sexy as you think but smaller then I had her down as!

Anyhow it was a pleasure to have been invited and I look forward to seeing what Vodafone 360 has to offer!

Mondello Park Japfest Photowalk

Posted by McAWilliams in Motorsports, photography      2 comments

Sep
9

Well where did all my August posts go, oh thats right I hardly touched my webpage during August, due to the fact as many know I was busy decking the whole of my garden by myself, but anyhow you dont really want to know about that since you are here for pictures.

So from one photowalk picture to another photowalk picture, this time with an incredible story to boot.

Over the past year or so I have been followed on Twitter by John Fair who is the corporate and sales manager of Mondello Park, Irelands national motor racing track. Now I dunno why he followed me initially but over time I found out he also has a love of photography and also lived nearby me too. He was planning on making the worldwide photowalk but due to work commitments he could not come along, but I knew he had plans afoot.

A month or so earlier when I first mentioned the photowalk he got in touch with me to ask me if I thought a photowalk of Mondello Park would be of interest to other photographers out there, I assured him that us free loading photographer types would love nothing better, so off John went to hatch up a plan. He emailed me a week or 2 later with an idea for the photowalk, which was to invite 20 photographers from Twitter along to Mondello Park for their biggest event of the race calender, give us a corporate suite for the day with coffee and lunch etc, but the highlight for me was allowing us all access all areas passage on the track!

I began writing back to him with “what the fuck are you serious!!!!!” but then decided to ring him instead and say those very words down the phone instead and yes he was deadly serious all he needed from me was names of who should be invited, I told him that between myself and Ryan Whalley we could come up with an interesting collection of folk for the event.

Well that was a long time ago now and it worked out well for Mondello Park, over the past month people on twitter have been bombarded with the #japfest tag thus providing Mondello Park with some good PR while for us 20 we were getting seriously excited at the prospect of taking pictures of really fast cars at such close proximity.

Unfortunately the day has come and gone, last Sunday we all met up in Kildare at 10am got a safety briefing to ensure we would not get killed, got shown around the track, shown best vantage points, how to get from A to B quickly, brought up to the roof of the control tower, it was just amazing, and they have even got a competition at the end of it all for us to enter into, where one of us will win a Mondello Driving experience where you get to drive a mazda 3 for 10 laps of the track, then 12 laps in a single seater motorcar!!!!

What do they want in return, to use any photos we can give them for their brochures etc etc, what a great organisation!

So Mondello Park and especially John Fair, thank you so much for getting in touch with me over this it has been great fun helping in the small way I did in organising this event, but more so thank you so much for giving all of us such an unique experience, it will be hard to match that!

Anyhow onto the photo its a car strangely enough, its one of the prodrifting cars sliding in a way I have never seen before around a corner. More photos can be seen on my Pix.ie page.