{52 Weeks} Week 13: Bathurst 1000

I did manage to remember to take my 52 Weeks pic in the midst of the thrills and spills of the Bathurst 1000. I simply didn't manage to post it! This is Phoenix and I watching Co-Driver practice, turns out my little Bubba Boy has a passion for the Great Race already, as today - the day of the race - every time the V8's thundered past us he would wriggle and kick me in the ribs. That's a whole lot of wriggling and kicking during a 161 lap, 6hr 12 minute (and 51 Second) race...

And for the record, our team came 1st and 2nd after a hard fought race, for the first 1, 2 team win in 26 years. Team Vodafone rocked it today :) As Ellie told our Craig Lowndes cutout yesterday after coming home from the Top 10 Shootout "I saw you drive today. I am prouda of you."

[Capture]

With the excitement building and only days to go until we'll be up at the Mount, soaking up the atmosphere, along with the thrill of my new baby I have been thinking about photographs I want to capture in order to record the feel, the ambiance that is the Bathurst 1000 and so I have set myself a challenge of some 'themes' to shoot. I do not yet know what will represent each of my chosen themes, but I will be on the lookout for the perfect interpretation.

I thought, that some of you might be interested in joining me and using your own creativity to [Capture] what you perceive to be the best shot for each category.

To participate, simply post a blog with your entries, you can participate in as many or as few categories as you want and then link up here! I will post my finds next week and then pick my favourites from the links to display in a seperate post the next day.

I am also going to set up albums on the BeckyandJames Facebook page, where I will be uploading my photos. Feel free to add yours over there, too!

Now, onto the important details...

Category 1: Team Spirit

Category 2: Passion

Category 3: Action

Category 4: Weather

Category 5: Entertainment

Come play along :)

Wearing Our Colours

In this house we love our V8s. For me, it's been practically a life long passion, whereas for James he liked to watch the Bathurst 1000 on TV every year but he had never been, he'd not experience the excitement and so he didn't have the passion. Then, last year I convinced him it was simply something we had to do. A right of passage. An experience not to be missed. And with that, an obsession was born. Our time at the 1000 last year opened his eyes to a whole different side to the V8 Supercars that he knew and I was one proud wife.

And now, we have a special something that we all get excited about. It's like football to us. We have a team we follow, we all have our shirts which we wear when there's a race on and we all watch. Obviously, Ellie and Kahlei play and do other things, too, but they watch the start and the end, being sure to yell out "Go Craig!" whenever the mood takes them. Ellie, in particular, loves it.

If you're not a freak like us, then I should enlighten you to where  our alliance lies, we're Team Vodafone. More specifically we are Lowndes fans, which means car 888 is our first choice followed by car 1 (but we do love Jamie). After which, our alliances are slightly different. I have been a long, long time Greg Murphy fan and I am loyal.

I know you're all loving my motor sport talk, but you might have to get a little used to it as the 1000 is less than a month away and we've had tickets practically since they came out last November.

Join in with more Point & Shoot fun over at Fat Mum Slim.