Joe and I went north to Browns Valley last weekend to watch the CalROCS event. Browns Valley is about 11 miles east of Marysville CA. We had never been to any of the CalROCs events before, which is a little strange since we hope to compete in that event next year. Many of the drivers also run other events so we are already familiar with many of them so it's not that big of a deal really.

I was pretty excited to hear that Derek Trent was going to be at the event since I have never seen him drive before. at least not live. Since I am getting one of his vehicles I really wanted to watch to see how it handles from a spectator perspective.

Derek took home first place in the SuperMod class so that was great. He did  break an axel shaft on the last course of day 1. Fortunately he was able to get a shaft from WFO in time for day two. In the end it all worked out and he went home a few bills richer.

Photos for me did not go to well. I totally failed to set my camera up correctly in the first place. At events like this I normally set my camera to a shutter priority at around 1/250s and try to maintain an aperture of about f8 to keep focus on the action. Like an idiot, I set it for aperture priority at f8 and never checked it once the rest of the day. Needless to say many pictures were completely ruined. Since I shoot RAW I was able to bring a handful back to life with some fancy photoshop techniques. They still didn't look that great so I added a faux HDR (High Dynamic Range)filter effect to bring the pop back into them. I was able to save a few pictures so thats good. But I had better pay more attention next time!

Check out the CalROCS Pictures Here