City Challenge Baku Highlights

I have got an assignment from one of the European agencies to shoot a City Challenge Baku 2012 races. I have never shot car races before, so shooting this event was also a personal challenge for me to some extend. 

It was 3 days of exciting entertainment, breathtaking city races and lots of fun. The numerous spectators on the packed grandstands got to see plenty of action with a pair of GT qualifying sessions and two GT sprint races plus a qualifying session for the Gymkhana City Drift series and a sprint race for the Classic Grand Prix with historic Formula 1 and other powerful single-seater machines. 

Ferrari with broken tire

RWT Racing Team Corvette Z.RO6 crash

RWT Racing Team Corvette Z.RO6 crash

Hartmut Beyer - City Challenge CEO (L), Wilma Elles - Actress (M), Rick Yune - Actor (R)

 

Wilma Elles - Formula 1 ride

Winners CIty Challenge GT Baku: Hexis McLaren Fred Makowiecki, Stef Dusseldorp

The Last Passengers

Two weeks ago I traveled to Tbilisi with a small group of creative people consisting of artists, art critics and musicians. We took an overnight train from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Tbilisi, Georgia. The train was very old, 1950's, but renovated few year ago. The interesting thing about this train was that this was its last ride, since all the trains would be replaced the next day with modern locomotives. So we were the last passengers of this old train. The company was great, so I could not miss a chance to test my new Galaxy S3 and decided to make a small funny photo reportage. I am very much satisfied with the camera quality of S3. Enjoy the photos!

Leaving Baku

It's party time

The tallest guy of the train

Tbilisi at night

Petrol tanks from East to West

Tbilisi railway station. Our guys called this "pigeon art" cause of the stains on the glass

The last passengers of the old train