Dom Romney

 

 

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September 28, 2012

Dom Romney


Dom Romney is an internationally award winning automotive and motor sport photographer working out of London, England. At only seventeen Dom started as work as a press photographer before decided to set up his own business – Dom Romney Photography was born in the spring of 2010, and has grown quickly in to a brand with clients across the globe.

Working solely with editorial and commercial clients, Dom’s high contrast vibrant work has already won him numerous awards and recognition from his peers. Along with his success as a photographer, Dom also provides lectures at the world renowned Citylit centre in london, teaching on a mix of techniques and technologies.

Dom writes “I got the call from Fast Car magazine to shoot this awesome aircooled for their wild card section, however to do justice to its American barn-find heritage, it needed to be shot in barn! Typical English barns are normally of concrete and corrugated steel construction, a far cry from the traditional timber barns you get in the States and hardly a nice photographic backdrop. After locating a plausible wooden barn in middle england (a task that was harder than you’d expect) we set about shooting it. To add to the vintage, weathered feel and to give the image the same feel as that satin, suede patina, we processed the images with some warm muted textures which I think really make the feature. Here is a small selection of my favourite images from the shoot.”

You can view more of Dom’s photography at domromney.com

 

Auto Factoids for the Week of September 9, 2012

Here are you Auto Factoids for the week.

Sept. 9, 1935 –  Studebaker ships its first order of cars (163) exports  to New York via the Pennsylvanian RR, final destination?   London, England.

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Sept 10, 1942 – Gas rationing began to help the war effort.

Three year and three days later, Sept. 13, 1945 Pontiac started making cars again after WWII.

1945  Pontiac  Silver  Streaks

Then on Sept 14, 1899, Henry H. Bliss was the first individual to be killed in a car accident.  He stepped from street car (trolley) and was struck by an electric taxi and died of his injuries the next morning.

September 15, 1881 in Milan, Italy, Ettore Bugatti was born.

Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance 2003
1908 Bugatti Runabout

Thanks for reading

Tim

Auto Factoids for the week of Aug 26, 2012

Here are your auto factoids for the week of Aug 26.

Aug 27, 1902 the Cadillac company was founded and on the same day in 1877 Charles Rolls was born in London, England.

1902 Caddy The Runabout

Rolls Royce 1904

On the 29th in 1898 Goodyear was incorporated and on the same day Charles Kettering was born in Dayton, Ohio…who?   Well so you don’t have to GOOGLE it ….. He was a founder of Delco, and was head of research at General Motors from 1920 to 1947. Among his most widely used automotive inventions were the electrical starting motor and leaded gasoline.

 

English: Charles F. Kettering, pictured with h...

English: Charles F. Kettering, pictured with his first electric starter. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

And that finishes up the month of August.

Last chance this month to Win the  1/32 scale  of the 1969 Dodge Coronet Super Bee.   Add a comment and you’ll be entered to win our monthly drawing.

Thanks for reading.

Tim