Digital Outback Photography

The dust has settled on yet another year for the outback challenge, not without the annual shed of blood sweat and tears from all competitors that makes the outback challenge what it is.

The week long event started off on Saturday afternoon with creek run to get everyone into the swing of things, Greg scanlon made an early exit with a diff failure on SS01 and then completed SS02 to realise his Torque converter was overheating his transmission. All in all the competitors put on a great show for the large amount of spectators that made the short trip from Broken Hill to see the action.

Sunday morning the competitors, spectators and officials made the journey to Denian the first of the 3 properties that the challenge makes its tracks through. Denian stages vary from GPS pegboards to Sand dune motorkhana stages with one of the most impressive being the sand wall where competitors are required to use a sand anchor and winch their way up the steep slippery sand dune. These stages seen Lawrie Sternbeck and Steve Hobbs struggle with a failed front diff and major winch dramas for Dave Cameron and Danial Dewitt 2 of the initial favorites to be contending for top spot this year.

Once the sand stages were out of the way the convoy moved on to Viewmont, THE MUD. You will find that competitors either love the mud or hate it, one thing is for sure the spectators definitely love it. With the recent floods the usual water holes are upwards of 3m deep so Paul had to do some searching for some new mud, Viewmont as usual never fails to provide plenty of the thick grey river clay that sucks all but the very best right down to their axles.

Still to come shots and write up from Poolamacca

This shoot had been going to happen for around 12 months up until recently, Fuzz owns this immaculate Falcon GT , which is an absolute pleasure to shoot, nothing fancy in these shots guys, just about 45 mins and a couple of locations close to town.

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Recently I was lucky enough to spend the week at the IRONMAN CLIFFHANGER opposed to the Challenge I didn’t shoot, in fact I hardly touched my camera for the week. Instead I took on the alter ego of cook for the week, peeling spuds and all that jazz. All i really have to say is thank you to all of the great people I met and had the pleasure of spending time with over the week it was awesome!!

Oh and throw up a few photos

Well the challenge is over, and even though it was a huge week a part of me is already missing the late nights and massively big days. One of the big things I took from the week camping with the competitors was how many great people there are in the group. Not one of the boys didn’t have 5 minutes to have a chat or sit around the fire for a beer or 2 at some stage during the week.

Now that i am home im madly sorting images by vehicle number if you would like some samples of your vehicle it’s best you e-mail me ( adam@digital-outback.com )and i will put your vehicle at the top of my sorting list.

Here’s a few more pictures for you guys to check out.

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Phew!! thisafternoon is the first breath we have had since the first stage of the Outback challenge on saturday night, it’s give me time to get some pictures together for you guys. Just a glimpse of the past few days.

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