Beach

This is one of the place where you can just have fun in the sun and not a care in the world. :)

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Tennis

Here are some Tennis photos that I took at the Genworth Childrens Advantage Classics, featuring Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf, James Blake and Lindsay Davenport.

Fast shutter speed is needed to freeze this topspin motion

Love is in the air

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Nascar

Taking picture of race cars moving at more than 150Mph is not an easy task. As you can see from some of the sample photo that I took from the Chevy Rock And Roll 400, which are mediocre at best (when the cars are racing and when the sun has set).

Dale Earnhardt Jr's #8 car pre-race (Pit Pass)

Jeff Gordon's crew and the Pace Car

Pre-Race shows (Daughtry Band, Parachute team, US Air Force etc)

Jeff Gordon racing Jimmie Johnson off the pit road

Congratulation Jimmie Johnson for winning 2007 Nascar Nextel Cup!

A steady hand and high shutter speed (1/500 or 1/1000 or faster) are keys in taking a good photos on a very fast moving object. The longer the focal length (Zoom), the faster shutter speed is needed to avoid blurry photos. The usage of a tripod is recommended. For more advanced photograper, try panning technique.

The panning technique is used to suggest fast motion, and bring out foreground from background. In photographic pictures it is usually noted by a foreground subject in action appearing still (i.e. a runner frozen in mid-stride) while the background is streaked and/or skewed in the apparently opposite direction of the subject's travel.

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