After four years together it’s time for me and my 21 year old Mazda MX-5 to part company. As I was preparing to advertise the car it occurred to me that I’d never got around to do a proper photo shoot… so in a brief break from the April showers I headed out, camera in hand.
This is my third MX-5. Previously I had a 2005 mk2.5, and before that a 1999 mk2 version. I love that MX-5’s are fun to drive, sporty, stylish, and have legendary reliability. My next will be a rare green mk3.5 Sporting Black edition, hopefully.
Once I got into MX-5 ownership and the enthusiastic community of the MX-5 Owners Club I knew that one day I’d have to have a mk1 with pop up headlights. The most popular colour for that age of MX-5 is red, but I wanted white as something a bit different.
This MX-5 may be old, but with a mere 64,000 miles on the clock and having grown up in Japan before being brought to the UK, she has no rust and is in great condition. She also appears in a post about the new MX-5 and a post to celebrate her 60,000 mile ‘birthday’!
In photography terms it’s one of the few blogs filled with photos using just my Olympus 25mm f1.8 prime lens. A couple of features of my Olympus OMD E-M1 camera came in really handy… The flip-out screen meant I could get the camera down load and use live view to frame the shot. And by mounting the camera on a monopod and raising the camera five feet above my head I could use the wifi function with the mobile phone app to live view, frame, and shoot photos from high up.
After four years together it’s time for me and my 21 year old Mazda MX-5 to part company. As I was preparing to advertise the car it occurred to me that I’d never got around to do a proper photo shoot… so in a brief break from the April showers I headed out, camera in hand.
This is my third MX-5. Previously I had a 2005 mk2.5, and before that a 1999 mk2 version. I love that MX-5’s are fun to drive, sporty, stylish, and have legendary reliability. My next will be a rare green mk3.5 Sporting Black edition, hopefully.
Once I got into MX-5 ownership and the enthusiastic community of the MX-5 Owners Club I knew that one day I’d have to have a mk1 with pop up headlights. The most popular colour for that age of MX-5 is red, but I wanted white as something a bit different.
This MX-5 may be old, but with a mere 64,000 miles on the clock and having grown up in Japan before being brought to the UK, she has no rust and is in great condition. She also appears in a post about the new MX-5 and a post to celebrate her 60,000 mile ‘birthday’!
In photography terms it’s one of the few blogs filled with photos using just my Olympus 25mm f1.8 prime lens. A couple of features of my Olympus OMD E-M1 camera came in really handy… The flip-out screen meant I could get the camera down load and use live view to frame the shot. And by mounting the camera on a monopod and raising the camera five feet above my head I could use the wifi function with the mobile phone app to live view, frame, and shoot photos from high up.
