King of the Hammers #36

Up close to the action.

Full dialog on the event is with the image #1 & "Moon Rise over Johnson Valley". If you like off road areas with big time driving skills, check out the Albums from "King of the Hammers". You may be surprised by the type of images are there. Click on the images for an enlarged view.

King of the hammers #39

End of a very long day, and now back in Hammer town. Ultra 4 race day started at 8:00 am, with a staggered start - 2 every minute, or so, apart. It is a timed event. These drivers rolled up around 6:00pm. They are one of the few who did finish, and were interviewed on how the day went.

Well, this is it for the coverage on the King off the Hammers - 2017. For those who enjoy off road travels, auto racing & just having fun with cars, I hope the series was interesting to look at. Hopefully you saw the whole series, so as to get a flavor of what this event is about.

Update - Two more image was added after this one - Hammer Town & iPhone Pano.

Post: iPhone 5s with minor processing in Macphun Luminar & Lightroom 5.

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King of the Hammers - #4

Just showing another type of terrine that the various classes have to endure on the day long race course. Coming up are three shots of Top Gear BBC, with host Jason Berger, filming for an episode. Then to finish up the day, some spectators playing around on the rocks, and the trouble they got into.

Dialog on the event is with "Moon Rising..." #1 & "King of the Hammers Week" - #1" at the beginning of the series.

King of the Hammers #31

As you can see, I wasn't the only one out in the "boonies" taking photos. A few were near my position also. Only a few areas have a fence to show the drivers where the trail goes. This one being a big zigzag past me, and up another hill - see image #32, to see where they were heading to. Most of the course is marked with sticks with an arrow.

Like most of the action images -

Post: Macphun Luminar & Lightroom 5.

I found this rock cropping along Highway 247 between Johnson Valley and Yucca Valley. This so reminded me of Alabama Hills in Lone Pine. This is a tiony area though and unfortunately most of the rocks are sprayed with graffiti. Still one would never know this wasn't taken in Alabama Hills.

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