Nostalgia Drags
by Brian White
Categories: Events and Cruises, Motor Sports, Photography by Brian, Vintage • Tags: american muscle cars, aussie muscle, drag racing, hotrods, motorplex
by Brian White
Categories: Events and Cruises, Motor Sports, Photography by Brian, Vintage • Tags: american muscle cars, aussie muscle, drag racing, hotrods, motorplex
by Brian White
Categories: Events and Cruises, Photography by Brian, Vintage • Tags: car cruise, kalamunda, outkast, perth cruising, von kustard
by Brian White
Eagerly I made my way to the panelbeaters today for a squiz at how the kombi was coming along. The rubbing back and panelwork is almost complete, the roof looks to be finished painting and the interior is almost ready too. A couple more weeks and it’ll be sorted. Cool. Bought a new wood steering [...]
Categories: Photography by Brian, Travel and Road Trips, Volkswagens • Tags: 1962, bus repaint, kombi, panel and paint, vw rebuild
by Brian White
It was good to catch up with Luke again today. I love visiting his place as each time is a new adventure. There’s always something interesting that a photographer drools over. There’s also some bizarre objects that will give you a laugh. This visits award winner is a tie between some lawn bowls score boards [...]
Categories: Barnfinds, Sheds, and Yards, Photography by Brian, Travel and Road Trips, Volkswagens • Tags: barnfinds, dodge truck, farms, kombi, volkswagens
by Brian White
Wow talk about a crazy shoot. It was bucketing rain pretty much all day but either we did it anyway, or it would be postponed for a third time in a year. We decided to push on and have a crack at shooting between downpours. And rain it did, bucketfuls. We managed to score some [...]
Categories: Barnfinds, Sheds, and Yards, Feature Cars, Photography by Brian, Travel and Road Trips, Volkswagens • Tags: 1954, barndoor, kombi, mullumbimby, vw
by Brian White
This week sees me off to northern NSW in pursuit of a 1954 Barndoor Split Window Kombi. It will be a feature article for VW Magazine Australia (published bi-monthly). I arrived in the wee early hours straight from 36 degree heat in Perth to 20 degrees of cold an rainy conditions on the Gold Coast. [...]
Categories: Travel and Road Trips, Uncategorized
by Brian White
The second round of the ARC was on home turf this month which made it easier to get to, however perhaps not quite as exciting when there’s no midnight flights or new cities involved. The rally itself was a corker! The signature WA dust and pebblestones made it a visual feast of huge dirt plumes [...]
Categories: Motor Sports, Photography by Brian • Tags: arc, Australian Rally Championship, busselton, east coast bullbarsa, nannup, rally, round 2, wa
by Brian White
If I had to choose just one motor sport to shoot, it would be dirt rallies. I cut my teeth on circuit racing and while it’s exciting there’s something out of control about cars sliding madly sideways between trees that gets me going. My friends and I used to thrash our own cars through the [...]
Categories: Motor Sports, Photography by Brian • Tags: arc, australian rally championships, dirt rallying, east coast bullbars, honda racing, innate motorsports, Motorsport, rally
by Brian White
I spent a chilled afternoon checking out the cars, bands, and traders at Deville’s Pad in Perth. I hadn’t been to the event before and to be honest, I’d never really heard about it until recently. I didn’t know if it was a mechanics workshop or small shop or whatever. Turns out it’s a cool [...]
Categories: Events and Cruises, Photography by Brian, Vintage • Tags: devilles pad, hotrods, kustom bikes, muscle cars, nightclub, rockabilly
by Brian White
Categories: Events and Cruises, Photography by Brian, Video • Tags: air cooled, australia, cars, hotrods, kombi, perth
by Brian White
Categories: Events and Cruises, Photography by Brian, Volkswagens • Tags: beetles, kombi, kombi cruise, munster garage, picnic, scarborough to munster cruise, split window bus, t1, type 3, volkswagens, vw
by Brian
After spending all day on recce yesterday was good to get the gear out for the ARC Power Stage…
Categories: Events and Cruises, Motor Sports, Photography by Brian • Tags: arc, Australian Rally Championship, canberra, cars, Honda, power stage, rally
by Brian
Cold, wet, tired, stoked! Just a few words to describe today. Too tired to prattle on with my usual crap so I’ll just post a teaser photo of our afternoon in Stromlo Forest testing with Honda. Mark Pedder and Eli Evans driving both team cars. More photos coming via Honda and Vettas Media.
Categories: Events and Cruises, Motor Sports, Photography by Brian • Tags: arc, australian rally championships, canberra rally, cars, dirt rally, eli evans, honda jazz, honda racing, motorsports, pedder, scott pedder, stromlo forest, team cars, testing day
by Brian
A relatively short post tonight. I’m pretty knackered from all the sitting in air conditioning and eating burritos. It’s a tough job. Anyway we snuck out of Sydney under cover of darkness this morning. I was so sleepy in the car I didn’t even notice the Asian hookers walk past until Mike pointed them out. [...]
Categories: Photography by Brian, Travel and Road Trips • Tags: arc, australia, canberra, cars, GPS, Hume Highway, Motley Fool, rally, Recreation, Roads and Highways, sydney, travel
by Brian
Old photographers take note. New photographers, this will change your life :) https://vimeo.com/58890112
Categories: Stuff Found on the Interwebs • Tags: best advice, film, inspirational, Photographer, photographers, starting a photography career, zack arias
by Brian
Flying on Jetstar is always an interesting experience. It’s the budget of budget airlines. Cheap seats usually mean you are perched on a crate of live chickens somewhere in the cargo hold, right next to a family from Chechnya and across from a pile of strange canisters with radioactive stickers on them. This flight was [...]
Categories: Photography by Brian, Travel and Road Trips • Tags: 300 L 2.8, adventure, airport, arc, aviation, budget airlines, canberra, canon, cars, cat, cps, domestic, fellow travellers, flights, L series, live chickens, NSW, perth, photographer michael, photography, rally, road trip, sydney, transportation, western australia
by Brian
I was just remembering this season last year helping video Thomas Brown of Out of Focus Productions shoot some music clips in Port Macquarie. I’d lost the link to the song but Tom’s pointed me in the right direction again. One talented group and the Pier venue was superb.
Categories: Photography by Brian, Video • Tags: 400 L 2.8, canon, canon 1d mk4, entertainment, port macquarie, the pier port macquarie, thomas brown film maker, video
by Brian
Less than 48 hours until I’m jetting off to Canberra via Sydney for Recce and prep of the opening round of the Australian Rally Championship in the Nation’s Capital on March 1st – 3rd. Be great to get back out in the dirt and battle off the snakes and spiders to grab some epic action [...]
Categories: Motor Sports, Photography by Brian, Travel and Road Trips • Tags: australia, Australian Rally Championship, brian white, canberra, canon professional services, cars, dirt sports, herridge, Oceania, rally, rally championship, Royal Australian Mint, sports, subaru, sydney, Theatre
by Brian White
I imagine when Xhibit gets old he’ll go on to host “Pimp My Massey-Ferguson”. There’s certainly no less a dedicated following in the vintage tractor scene. Take a gander at some of these resto’d whips and try to convince me that the farm girls aren’t getting a bit wet in their overalls when some young [...]
Categories: Events and Cruises, Photography by Brian, Travel and Road Trips, Vintage • Tags: classic motorcycles, farm trucks, macksville nsw, massey ferguson, NSW, pimp my ride, reo speedwagon, rusty iron rally, tractors, xhibit
by Brian White
Paint: Custom Glasurit Styling: Super Pursuit Motor: 302 cubic inch V8 Windsor Exhaust: Dual mufflers and twin 2.5 inch pipes Gearbox: C4 three speed Diff: 8.75 inch from a Compact Fairlane Suspension: King Spring front coils and reset rear leafs. Dropped 3 inches over all Rolling: 14×6 inch all round with 175/70/14 white wall tyres. [...]
Categories: Feature Cars, Photography by Brian • Tags: 1962, c4 gearbox, castlemaine rod shop, ford deluxe, king springs, moon caps, steel wheels, windsor v8, xl falcon
by Brian White
Bike: 1972 Triumph 750cc running in a one-off custom rigid frame. Rolling: Stock front Triumph 19″ rim with classic Avon Speedmaster tyre. Rear 16″ Harley rim with Shinko double whitewall tyre. Gas Tank: Indian Larry. Handlebars: Bespoke by Palace Cycles. Paint: Chartreuse flaked by Ryan Clayton. Pin Striping: Von Kustard. Seat: Hand tooled by Kansas [...]
Categories: Feature Bikes, Photography by Brian • Tags: 72 triumph motorcycle, 750cc, avon speedmaster tyre, bobber, chartreuse flake paint, gas tank custom, harley davidson, indian larry, kansas charley, palace cycles, pin striped, ryan clayton, sheridan brown, shinko whitewall, triumph, von kustard
by Brian
If my testicles could talk they would beg me to go find some shade or air conditioning as it only took a few minutes for them to be dialling a 1800 number and buying not one, but TWO Sham-Wow’s. It was another gloriously hot West Australian weekend greeting us with soaring temperatures close to 40 [...]
Categories: Events and Cruises, Photography by Brian, Vintage • Tags: australia, Big Al, Boating, car show, cars, classic car show, cruising, Events and Cruises, high temperatures, hotrods, ht holden, mitchell park, Muscle car, Online poker, perth, photography, Poker, poker run, Poker Runs, Recreation, sir james mitchell park, vw kombi, western australia
by Brian
Categories: Events and Cruises, Motor Sports, Photography by Brian, Vintage • Tags: 1/4 mile, burnouts, cruising, drags, hotrods, motorplex, muscle cars, nostalgia drag racing, perth motorplex, retro coupes, v8, vintage cars
by Brian
My good friend and vintage photo inspiration, Angie, has been snapping stunning pics from the wheatbelt for ages. She has a great eye for detail and knows how to make her subjects comfortable and brings out the best in them. I first met Angie many moons ago when I was lucky enough to photograph her [...]
Categories: Business Showcase, Vintage • Tags: Angie, angie rowe, Angie's List, Arts and Entertainment, Business, classic car magazine, country town, Fine-art photography, Holden Brougham, northam, Photographer, photography, portraits, retro, vintage photographer, wedding photographer, western australia, wheatbelt
by Brian
One of my first tryouts with light painting. I must be due to have a go at a few more. I’ll find a few more examples. It’s quite fun!
Categories: Feature Bikes, Feature Cars, Photography by Brian, Vintage • Tags: gmh, holden torana, light painting, lj torana, photo techniques, time exposure, torana, torrie
by Brian
Doug Blackney’s Harley Bobber
Categories: Barnfinds, Sheds, and Yards, Feature Bikes, Photography by Brian, Vintage • Tags: bike, bobber, farm shoot, harley bikes, harley davidson, hog, iron horse, motorcycle, ozbike magazine, photoshoot, western australia
by Brian
Categories: Feature Cars, Photography by Brian, Vintage • Tags: cars, ford, perth, photography, ratrod, v8, vintage
by Brian
Categories: Events and Cruises, Motor Sports, Photography by Brian, Video, Volkswagens • Tags: 1/8th mile, air cooled, australia, bay window, beetle, combi, drag racing, karmann ghia, kombi, oval beetle, road trip, split kombi, split window, style, t1, t2, t3, travel, type 1, video, volkswagen, vw, vw drags, vwma, warwick queensland
by Brian
I’ve been watching a lot of James Bond films lately so I’m starting to worry that the Cranksters are becoming a lot like JB’s nemisis SPECTRE. A group of secretive blokes conspiring to take over the world. Perhaps Flames is their leader Blofeld? It’s the quiet ones you have to watch, and I can more [...]
Categories: Events and Cruises, Photography by Brian, Vintage • Tags: american hotrod, australia, Brylcreem, car cruise, cranksters, herne hill, hot summer nights, James Bond, james bond films, James Dean, notchback, oval beetle, perth, Perth Western Australia, rockabilly, t3, volkswagen, vw, vw beetle, western australia
by Brian
Words by Chris www.brassmunkymedia.com.au Photos by Chris and Gerard www.neweramedia.com.au It’s Important for people to have hobbies, something to fill spare time between working and sleeping, an outlet to keep yourself sane, to make the weekends fun, and break up the monotony of your daily life. For some, its stamp collecting, surfing, photography, or music, [...]
Categories: Feature Cars, Vintage, Volkswagens • Tags: adelaide, automotive, beetle, cars, deceased estate, Disc Brake, disc brake conversion, ford, holden, Light-emitting diode, slammed bug, type 1, volkswagen, Volkswagen Beetle, vw, vw type 3