Sunday 15th June 2008 was Fathers’ Day. I got up, accepted some cards from the family & promptly left them all at home to go & meet a mate for a trip out to the Classic Car Show at Knebworth Park. 

The weather was pretty poor to start with. Lots of heavy cloud with only a few gaps of blue. It got better in the afternoon when eventually the sun came out, but the morning was heavy with the threat of rain. Fortunately, it never did.

I’ve not been to a car show at Knebworth before so was not sure what to expect. What we got was several hundred cars to suit all tastes. There were some from the 1930s all the way up to some modern Japanese performance cars & everything in between. The following shots are what’s under the bonnet of a Mustang.

I took tow cameras, my standard Canon 20D with the Sigma 18-50mm lens & the older Canon 300D on which I had my Sigma 10-20mm wide angle lens.

There were lots of people so taking photographs of the cars required some patience since people were forever walking into the shots. This was even more important with the 10-20mm lens as people could be quite far from the cars but still be in the shot & have no idea they were getting in the way. To make matters worse, many of the car owners & their families sat in deckchairs behind their vehicles meaning they were in every shot taken from the front of the car. I did manage to isolate a few cars though.

Because of the problems by all the onlookers I took quite a few shots just isolating various details of the vehicles.

Unfortunately, my knowledge of cars isn’t very large so if I’ve got any details wrong in these shots, please let me know!