Random shot..

Taken while cruising down the Foothill Boulevard north of L.A. last March...

Busy days - Random I-phone shots from this last week

Life's been quite busy lately, writing a lot of articles and editing tons of photos. On my last trip to the USA I've been shooting a lot of automotive stuff, since most of the motorcycle mags I usually work for had too many articles in stock... That's why you've seen a lot of the 911 stuff. I hope to be doing some motocross shoots soon, and there's also a few GP's coming up for me this summer which I have to cover. More auto stuff too, I'm pretty sure about that. Shooting cars is fun. With a little luck I'll be covering some choppers in France this spring & summer also. So, keep checking back. I'm sorry for the lack of updates, but every now and then I'll try to post up some neat pics. Thanks for looking! -M.

Nuthin' better than a Sunday ride on Saturday

Actually this was taken this morning on a Monday......

Sunrise Cycles - Kosuke's Panhead - Dodger Stadium

And some more L.A. skyline......

Skyline Drive

San Francisco | October 2011

Golden Gate bridge, seen from the Marin Headlands..

One more of Magnus

Highway 10 & 110 intersection - Los Angeles

East Los Angeles

Les Amis du Circuit de Geuex

Last weekend we drove by the old Reims track pit building. I took a bunch of pics but haven't really gotten to work on those, so you'll have to enjoy these I-phone shots for now.

Reims-Gueux was a triangular motor racing road course near Reims, France, which hosted 14 French Grand Prix.

It was first established in 1926 on the public roads between the small French villages of Thillois and Gueux. The circuit had two very long straights between the towns, and teams strove to maximize straight-line speed of their cars; many slipstream battles ensued. Race organizers actually felled trees and demolished old houses in order to make the circuit even quicker. In 1952, the circuit was significantly altered to bypass the village of Gueux, and many people now refer to the course as simply Reims.

Its first event was the Grand Prix de La Marne, staged by the Automobile Club of Champagne. International racing came soon thereafter, with the first official Formula 1 event occurring in 1950, the inaugural year of the Formula One world championship. The circuit was last used by Formula One in 1966, and it closed permanently in 1972 due to financial difficulties.

In 1997, there was to be a historic race held there, but for technical reasons, it was cancelled several months before it was due to take place and in 2002, the bulldozers arrived to demolish some portions of the track. Sections of the track around the pit lanes are still visible today.

Les Amis de Circuit de Geuex is a non-profit organisation working to preserve traces of the circuit.

Abandoned shunting yard | Epernay | France

Remeber that industrial area in Germany we visited a while ago..?

Here's another view, shot with the Mamiya.. This whole, gigantic area can act as one big photo studio. Great place where you can hang out all day long.

Germany | Ruhr Gebiet | April 2011

The other day we drove out to the German Ruhr Gebiet where we took some shots of an old, abandoned blast furnacing factory.

It has been in use from early 1900, till 1985. A very neat industrial area with tons of photo opportunities. More to follow soon..

Unfortunately this beautiful sunset was located on the wrong side of the tracks, and we couldn't really get to a proper location to get a nice skyline/sunset shot...

Shooting some film with the Mamiya..

IPhone shots from a couple days ago...

Road trippin' | Alaska | March 2011

Oakland rides | February 2011 | Limos are hip

Sunset Boulevard on a February morning

Seal Beach | After the rain...

Porto | Second largest city in Portugal

Nazare | Leiria | Portugal

We went to Nazare today. I don't know much about surfing but I heard that, in the winter time, this is one of THE big wave spots in Portugal. Not knowing if November is supposed to be winter out here (24 degrees celcius ain't bad) we went to the little fishing town anyways, to see if there was any good surfing going on...I'm definitely going back in a few days when there's some bad weather coming up..!!