Continuing with my automotive portraits theme.

I call this, ‘know your roots’.

Biturbo AMG estate.

SLS. I love the way the father is holding his son up to take a peek inside.

Bentley Continental GT.

Audi A6. I love how brutish the front end treatment is on modern Audi’s.

Audi S5.

Audi R8.

And two others that aren’t part of the automotive portrait series, both taken at the Mazda booth.

Priorities.

And the Takeri concept doing exactly what concept cars are supposed to.

 Part 1 of the NYC International Auto Show, here.

I’m working with a theme I call ‘automotive portraits’. The idea hit me as I was wandering the pits between heats while shooting a Time Attack in 2010 (two years ago this month, actually). I came across this COBB Viper and it looked…sinister just sitting there. So I thought a low, head on photo might capture that.

I’ve been wanting to explore the idea of automotive portraits more and the NYC Auto Show is in town this week. Besides the crowds, I couldn’t ask for a better group of ‘subjects’.

Honda Accord Coupe Concept.

Jaguar XKR-S.

BMW M3.

Nissan GT-R. I love the way this woman is approaching the car tentatively, as if the GT-R (affectionately known as Godzilla in previous generations) might bite.

Lotus Evora. ‘Put down the phone and let’s go play’.

More to come as I battle the crowds this weekend.

Nice day for a lunchtime ride through Central Park.

(Cell phone shot.)

This. This is fantastic.

[h/t to The Daily Meal]

1) I dislike Spotify. It doesn’t work well enough for the $10/month that I pay for it. Skipping tracks, songs not sync’ing correctly for offline use, etc. It’s frustrating.

2) But not as frustrating as iTunes is.

So this is me testing out Spotify’s new play widget.

Almost. It took me 3 tries to get the app to write the widget code. Le sigh.

[Update] – Why, Spotify, why after the song has played embedded does my desktop client play the next song in the album? That’s not what I want! I didn’t embed the entire album, just a single song!

Few things are as satisfying as clean bikes packed up and ready to go first thing in the morning.

(Cell phone shot.)