Japfest At Mondello Park (And A Poster To Mark The Occasion)

Sep 12, 2009 by Jennifer Farley

Posted under: Blog, digital photography, Graphic Design

Last week I was lucky enough to be invited to “Japfest” at Mondello Park in Co. Kildare. John Fair from Mondello Park asked 20 photographers to come to the track for a photowalk with access pretty much all areas. It was an absolutely great opportunity and a wonderful day. The weather was horrendous even by Irish standards with bouts of torrential and horizontal rain coming down.

Photography-wise I found the weather tough-going to be honest. I got a couple of shots that I thought were ok but didn’t feel like I got any “Wow” shots. Despite that, there was loads of colour at the event and the racing, particularly the drift racing as I had never seen that before, was very exciting. I really enjoyed the social aspect too and the chance to meet up with a lot of people I’ve met through Twitter.

I made up a couple of posters to mark the day too. The racing car in the poster is from a photograph I took in the museum at Mondello. You can see all my pictures and the poster at slightly higher resolution on my pix.ie site.

Mondello Park have tons of different race events going on throughout the year, as well as activities such as off-road driving and track days where you can learn to drive a racing car. (My husband did that a couple of years ago and absolutely loved it.) Have a look at their website to find out more.

And now for a little link love: Check out the following photographers for some great work – they’re all on Twitter too.

Derek McAuley (Twitter link, website with beautiful logo coming soon)

Gillian McEnteggart (Twitter link)

Thanks to John Fair and Mondello Park for their great hospitality.

Tags: Photography, Poster design

3 Comments + Add Comment

Heather T. September 12, 2009 at 5:29 pm

Wow, what fun–I love auto racing! That black and white photo is great! And, of course, a very cool poster.
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web page designer September 12, 2009 at 5:38 pm

Nice poster… looks cool. Even though I’m an American car type guy, still looks like fun.
Jennifer Farley September 13, 2009 at 11:52 am

Thanks Heather and Web page designer. Despite the weather (and it really was awful at certain times during the day), it was really, really good fun.