autofantasia's photos with the keyword: Audi

The theme for this week's Sunday Challenge was, believe it or not, hold your camera upside down . Now, I have to be honest here and say that right from the beginning, apart from worrying about dropping my camera, I couldn't really see the point of this exercise. Nor could I see how any images we would get would be any different to one taken with the camera the right way up and then flipped at the processing stage or see how you could tell looking at any particular image if it had been produced via the former or latter technique? However, I put on my big boy's pants, manned up (at least as best I could) and decided to go with it. It seemed to me that there were several ways you could approach the challenge. You could just take a 'normal' shot with the camera held the right way around and flip it in processing, but that would be cheating and everyone knows what happens to those Wendi finds doing that! You could take a 'real' upside down shot that would instantly look 'wrong' and play with the viewers sense of perspective and ultimately perhaps even make them question their sanity. Or, you could do what I've done here and take a photo whilst holding the camera upside down of something that is symmetrical and therefore looks pretty much the same as it would if you shot it the right way up. Not the most creative route to take perhaps, but I kind of liked the result and the way that it will no doubt lead some folks to question if I did in fact give into temptation and cheat. However, the more observant of you out there, particularly those who are into their cars or maybe just simply happen to own an Audi, will know this is the real McCoy. How? Surely, it's obvious. The black plastic curves that wrap around the chrome rings should be above them and not below. The red area is actually the leading edge of the bonnet and not part of the front valance or nose cone. Now you believe me ... don't you? You do, don't you?

This gorgeous Audi Coupé passed me yesterday whilst I was out on my bike in Northallerton. Luckily, it parked up in one of the nearby streets so I was able to get some decent photos of it. Better still, I got to talk to the owner, a lovely old chap who it turns out has had this car from new. It has less than 72,000 miles on the clock and, as hopefully the photos show, it is in superb condition for a car that's now over 21 years old. Paint is actually pearlescent white, which was an optional extra back in 1993 that added around £1,200 to the price of the car. I did ask if he might ever sell it, but apparently his grandson has eyes on it and so will most likely be staying in the family when the owner finally stops driving.

This gorgeous Audi Coupé passed me yesterday whilst I was out on my bike in Northallerton. Luckily, it parked up in one of the nearby streets so I was able to get some decent photos of it. Better still, I got to talk to the owner, a lovely old chap who it turns out has had this car from new. It has less than 72,000 miles on the clock and, as hopefully the photos show, it is in superb condition for a car that's now over 21 years old. Paint is actually pearlescent white, which was an optional extra back in 1993 that added around £1,200 to the price of the car. I did ask if he might ever sell it, but apparently his grandson has eyes on it and so will most likely be staying in the family when the owner finally stops driving.

This gorgeous Audi Coupé passed me yesterday whilst I was out on my bike in Northallerton. Luckily, it parked up in one of the nearby streets so I was able to get some decent photos of it. Better still, I got to talk to the owner, a lovely old chap called Peter who it turns out has had this car from new. It has less than 72,000 miles on the clock and, as hopefully the photos show, it is in superb condition for a car that's now over 21 years old. Paint is actually pearlescent white, which was an optional extra back in 1993 that added around £1,200 to the price of the car. I did ask if he might ever sell it, but apparently his grandson has eyes on it and so will most likely be staying in the family when the owner finally stops driving.

This gorgeous Audi Coupé passed me yesterday whilst I was out on my bike in Northallerton. Luckily, it parked up in one of the nearby streets so I was able to get some decent photos of it. Better still, I got to talk to the owner, a lovely old chap who it turns out has had this car from new. It has less than 72,000 miles on the clock and, as hopefully the photos show, it is in superb condition for a car that's now over 21 years old. Paint is actually pearlescent white, which was an optional extra back in 1993 that added around £1,200 to the price of the car. I did ask if he might ever sell it, but apparently his grandson has eyes on it and so will most likely be staying in the family when the owner finally stops driving.

Just in case anyone was starting to think in between shooting cars at these shows I spent all my time stalking pretty young girls, here's a shot of a young guy ... also eagerly cleaning his pride and joy. You see, nobody is safe from my prying lens ... I just love to try and capture all aspects of what these shows involve.

The Audi Quattro is a road and rally car, some might even say automotive icon, which was produced by the German manufacturer. It was first shown at the 1980 Geneva Motor Show and production of the original version continued through until 1991. Okay it might be a white one, but what the heck ... fire up the Quattro!

This old Audi A6 has been sat like this for what seems like years. I guess it must have a story to tell.