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As me and my kiddo Sean Kirk enjoyed watching the Underbone and Scooter race 3 weeks ago. I’ve notice that he was super duper excited when I told him that despite the bad weather and the wet tracks, the pocketbike category would push through.

I also notice the support of the parents of the riders. They make sure that their kids wear all the needed safety gears in this sports! Specially during this wet situation, where the tracks is very slippery. They pamper their rider with the proper suit, gloves, safety pads, and definitely the helmet. If ever this kids or the parents would get really really serious with this, they might consider adding an Arai Motorcycle Helmets in their armory.

After the race, We even went to meet the riders (aging as young as 7 up to 12 years old) and their bikes on their tents. They even allowed us to have have photos taken with their pocketbike, too bad Sean Kirk was too shy that time to sat on the bikes

More race photos! CLICK HERE!!!

Another photo challenge win for me. This time its the “Compact Power: Panning” photo challenge, again at dpreview.com. I got 5th place for the above photo. (out of 29 entries). My co-member in PnSers (Point and Shoot Users) Sir Spreketek was declared No.1. After all he’s won’t be called the Master Panner at our forum for nothing

By the way, my entry was shot last May at the Marikina Sports Center. Just go there when a bunch of cyclist practice around the velodrome, and I’m sure, even if you’re a beginner on this technique (panning) you’ll go home with two, three or more awesome panning shots! Happy panning!

dpreview challenge result HERE

Time to rant and rave again! As me and my co-PnSers JAckie made it to the Top Ten to one of the many photo challenges at the world-renowned Digital Photography Review!(dpreview.com) I’ve grabbed the 8th position, while JAckie got the 5th place. You can check the challenge results HERE!!!

dpreview facts:

www.dpreview.com is one of the top 2,000 most visited websites on the Internet, according to Alexa. The website itself claims that “These days the site is one of, if not the, premium digital photography site with an audience of seven million unique visitors a month reading over one hundred million pages” – Source: Wikipedia

The challenge – Compact Power: Insect Close-up/Macro

Good thing I had this macro shot of a behave grasshopper just recently, which I took at Lamesa Dam Eco-Park. It was my best macro so far, and my first also to shoot a grashopper. I was kinda uber hesitant at first to join because I knew the competition will be kinda tough. Imagine photographers from all over the world will be my co-competitors! But its finally over and I’m so grateful that my entry has grabbed the 8th position out of 100 entries! Yipeee! I guess I’ll be aiming for the first place next time. Wish ko langggg hehe!!