When Britannia rules the road

This weekend features one of my favourite car shows: the AllBritish Field Meet at VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver.

Better still, this year I also get to go to my father-in-law’s amazing cabin outside of Clinton. British cars and a road trip, how perfect is that?

Early tomorrow morning I’ll set up on the entrance road to the show and shoot all the cars that drive in.

If you own a British car and have gone to VanDusen over the years you probably wondered who that crazy guy is every year snapping all the cars. Now you know.

I also shoot lots of images of the cars once they are parked. Seeing similar cars all lined up in a row is pretty unique and offers some of the best photo opportunities of any of the local shows.

I’ll use a long telephoto lens to capture many ornaments or details of all the cars in the row. Rolls-Royces offer some of the finest hood ornaments to shoot, but Jags, Healeys, Triumphs and many other cars offer so many cool shapes and angles.

Amazingly, almost all the car shows this weekend are in the Interior so I may pop over to see one or two, but spending time at the cabin is pretty cool all on it’s own.

Years ago I got to know Rex, the owner of a wrecking yard on the Kelly Lake Road outside of Clinton.

His wrecking yard was filled with old relics all priced at US$1,500 dollars or more. Probably US$1,000 overpriced, but cool to wander through and shoot cool angles of defunct wrecks.

The wrecking yard is now gone but I have lots of great memories ... and great shots.

One local carnut and friend of mine, Tom Posthuma, bought an old English Ford, a Zephyr Capri, which spent time at Rex’s wrecking yard.