Not my words, but Loeb's. I'm not much of a patriot, if I ever talk about "my country" it's usually while cursing it for being too cold/rainy/icy/grey/windy/whatever. But the past week, and especially this weekend, Norway and it's climate has been on it's best behavior, and in turn that laid the foundation for one hell of a rally weekend. Yes yes, people locally and nationally complain about it being too costly to arrange, the deficits, the low spectator numbers and the few idiots who have to drink too much on these occasions. But those of us who did get their bums out of the sofa's and out into the cold (and didn't fall asleep in a snowfilled ditch in -20) - we had a blast. All right, I'll admit, Friday was a bummer - as you can read about in the previous post, but being a poor bugger who can't afford to just buy a rally pass, I had to work to join the fun. And a small, idealistic part of me actually thinks that "someone have to work as volunteers on these things, otherwise arrangements like these would never happen".Sunday started early for me, about 5.45 in the morning, and by 6.45 I was at our stand at SS18/21 in Våler, help setting everything up. We were going to sell burgers, hot dogs, coffe
e and ecological vegetable "rallysoup" made by the farmer I work for. Our little shop was about 10 metres from the finish line - which gave me a very good but rather brief view of the cars passing by.Now, taking pictures of cars going by at 100km/hour wasn't all that easy, as it turns out. At least not for a newbie like me - luckily I knew where I could change the settings for shutter speed, and with a bit of trial and error I got there in the end. However, my camera can only take about 3 pictures a second, which usually resulted in one photo of the frond end of a car, one of the rear end of a car, and one empty frame. I did get a few good shots, however, and it was a good practice session.
Most of my photographs from this day can be seen here, in a facebook album. Will post them on Flickr when I've figured out my bloody Yahoo ID and password... *mutters*
