Back from Homestead with many Ferrari photos

Homestead turned out to be a great time. I was able to hand out about 200 calendars and meet some fantastic people. I believe I came away with a bunch of great shots, even though I was unable to secure media credentials from Homestead-Miami Int'l Speedway. I'll be sending a calendar and a credential request to a PR contact at Ferrari North America.

In the meantime, I've got a bit of work to do. It seems the Aperture 3.01 update Apple released earlier this month has  created some serious issues for my workflow. I'm using Aperture 2.0 (why Apple recommended this update for 2.0 users puzzles me). Anyhow, all my new photos from the weekend say unsupported file format when I try to edit them. I have backups for most of these images, and Sunday's images were never imported. So hopefully nothing will be lost. Unfortunately I need to uninstall Aperture and a bunch of little items in various folders and do a fresh install. Tomorrow. Tonight I am getting some rest. Ciao!

Beautiful day at Miami Homestead with the Ferrari crowd

The 2010 Ferrari Challenge schedule kicked off today at Miami Homestead International Raceway. The wind was blowing hard today, thankfully the sun was shining (I have a burn to prove it). I arrived at the track at 8:20 this morning and was happy to find out the 599xx cars would indeed be taking the track for the first time in the United States. Also on hand were about seven or so FXX cars and two former Formula One racers. One of the F1 cars was an ex-Schumacher car, circa 2003.

Of course the F430 Challenge main event did not disappoint, although the overall number of cars was about half of the amount racing last year. One team coach mentioned the economy was to blame. So I did my part to help the economy and handed out about 160 Maximum Ferrari 2010 calendars for free! I thought this was a good thing to do with this year's overrun.

See you at the track tomorrow!