It’s Just Their Opinion….

I‘ve been spending an awful lot of time behind the wheel just recently, more often in front of cameras instead of behind. This has lead to a couple of disturbing comments from my colleagues about similarities…
First off, I was working with fellow car photographer Tim Andrew in Northumberland recently. I’ll write more about why we were flying around the A Roads in a little Mercedes C Class another time, but towards the end of the day, Tim rigs up his favourite fill-flash and zaps off a couple of shots of me for a new avatar. Many thanks, Tim!
But the disturbing thing is that Tim reckons I’m a dead ringer for ex-F1 driver John Watson. That’s fine except that the other Mr Watson is considerably older than me…

If that wasn’t enough, just a few days earlier, I’d been working on track in a Ferrari and the inevitable event photographer’s gallery was around. Fellow instructors saw a shot of me that they swore made me a dead ringer for Derek Bell….. Normally, I'd be very pleased indeed to be mentioned in the same sentence with either man. After all, they're both pretty successful behind the wheel. The disturbing thing is that they're both several decades older than me, with quite a few more miles on the clock.

I guess it’s time I started to moisturise a little more often

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