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    • Autosport Show 2012 - the season is underway January 14, 2012
      Made a visit to the Autosport Show on the opening day, Thursday, to take a peek at what's happening. Alot of shiny cars, and alot of orange lights as per usual with car shows. So, time to get arty! Not many photos taken, so have included the most interesting ones. Take a look here at the gallery.
    • 2011 Highlights Online January 5, 2012
      Highlights of 2011 in one gallery for your viewing pleasure. View the 2011 highlights News for 2012 coming soon, including events and series that I will be covering throughout the next 12 months. Keep an eye out on the Surreal Illusions Facebook Page for the latest updates.
    • Have a great New Year, see you all in 2012 December 26, 2011
      Season well and truly over. Visited the Plum Pudding Boxing Day races at Mallory Park. Just enjoyed the races, so no photos. No snow either this year. Have a great New Year, see you all in 2012!
    • BTCC finale from Silverstone October 16, 2011
      Gallery from Silverstone for the BTCC finale and championship showdown is now online. Only Saturday though as I was sadly unable to attend Sunday and to see the racing. However, gives a chance for less standard photos. View the final BTCC gallery of the year.
    • British GT Finale from Silverstone with the new champions October 9, 2011
      The 2011 British GT season is over and the champions now crowned after a 2 hour finale at Silverstone. View the photos from the British GT Qualifying and Race along with the BlancPain Endurance Series in the gallery. Thanks to everyone I met throughout the year in the British GT and support series, see you all next season.
    • GT500 at Donington Park with flames, glowing discs and a sunset September 27, 2011
      Donington Park hosted the GT500, a 3 hour race for the British GT, ending in the twilight and the sunsetting over the podium, with a wet but drying track making the race more interesting. You can view a selection of photos from both days in their own galleries: Saturday action with qualifying and Sunday Race action and support races.
    • BTCC action at the Rock September 19, 2011
      The BTCC enters its final stages of the 2011 season with the title chase hotting up. Rockingham saw all the usual BTCC style action, news and controversy. View the photos from Saturday and Sunday
    • British GT and F3 Rockingham Galleries September 5, 2011
      Photos from the mostly wet and damp Rockingham British GT and F3 meeting are now online. Two seperate galleries for each day. An update earlier today enables you to buy digital copies straight from the site as a download from the 2011 Galleries. View the 2011 Galleries here.
    • Mini's on 2 wheels, red flags, gravel trap visits and some close racing August 15, 2011
      Donington played host to the GT Cup, Mini's, Lotus's, Trackday Trophy and Radicals - all providing some sort of incident and some very close racing throughout the weekend. Photos from the weekends action can be viewed in the MSVR Weekend Gallery.
    • International GT-Open and Formula 2 from Brands Hatch July 26, 2011
      My annual visit to Brands Hatch, this time for the International GT Open and Formula 2, along with support acts from the European F3 Open, Lotus Cup UK and Europe, Lotus on Track Elise Trophy and the MR2 Championship. Some pretty good weather, close racing, large grids, loud shouty cars and a couple of flying F3 cars later, you can view the galleries from th […]

New RSS feed

Posted by surrealillusions on March 18, 2009

You can forget about the link below, its now been updated to a new file -
http://www.surrealillusions.co.uk/rss.php

A new gallery is now live, you can view it here – http://www.surrealillusions.co.uk/gallery/doningtontrackday/

:)

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Setup my own RSS feed on my website

Posted by surrealillusions on January 16, 2009

If you havent visited my site in a while, you’ll notice a new design, some new(ish) features and also you can subscribe directly to my websites RSS -

Surreal Illusions RSS Feed

:)

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Got bored, so heres a duck on water

Posted by surrealillusions on August 1, 2008

Got bored, so heres a duck on water

duck on water

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thats alot of phone calls…

Posted by surrealillusions on May 27, 2008

assuming we’re working on a billion is 1,000,000,000 (only because my calculator cant deal with anymore digits for me to work out using the original and british way ) that would work out at 8.64×10 to the power of -5 seconds each.

alternatively, a billion phone calls, at 1 per second would take you 1902.5875 years to complete..

thats alot of phone calls

:)

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crash-fest on toca race driver

Posted by surrealillusions on May 27, 2008

found something interesting with toca race driver 3 yesterday.

You need to choose the f1 racing with the bmw williams, and find adelaide circuit.

Set the handling to pro-sim (important!). Set the laps to 4 or 5, or more if you want a long race. Pitstops upto you. Start at the back of the race.

Go straight to the race, and then when you get round to the last but one corner (left hander, that you need to brake for). You will find most of the AI cars will crash and will be forced to pitstop. An easy way to win the race, and also quite fun passing all these broken AI cars going slowly. Just be careful not to be online with someone behind you going into the corner as you’ll be taken out ;) This is on the ps2, so not sure if it happens on any other platform.

:)

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some website updates

Posted by surrealillusions on May 14, 2008

Updated parts of my website.

Namely the gallery section with a new, quicker and easier to use design. Also updated the videos so they load quicker and easier.

:)

website linkie -Click me!

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F3 and GT Photos from Oulton Park

Posted by surrealillusions on March 26, 2008

I have published the photos i took at Oulton Park of the opening rounds of the British Formula 3 and GT Championships.

I think the photos have turned out quite well. Certaintly better than what i was expecting.

Photos can be seen on my website page for the F3 and GT here -

F3 and GT Gallery

You can also comment on some of my favourites on flickr here -

Surreal Illusions Flickr

Thanks for reading

:)

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F1 causes the end of the world

Posted by surrealillusions on March 18, 2008

In my brand new article, listed here –


Click here to read all about it!

I also have other articles published. You can see a list of them on my website on this page -
Surreal Illusions Articles Page

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F1 2008 is nearly go go go

Posted by surrealillusions on March 14, 2008

The Aussie GP is this weekend. One of the first of the major car series in motorsport to get underway. Hopefully it’ll be a cracker.

In the meantime, I’m waiting for the National series to get underway so i can get some photos in! First up should be the F3/GT at Oulton Park on Easter Bank Holiday Monday.

:)

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How to take photos….

Posted by surrealillusions on January 22, 2008

Photo Guide

My guide to taking photos:

  1. Buy a camera.
  2. Take it out of the box.
  3. Throw away any instruction booklets. They are useless.
  4. Put battery in.
  5. Run back to the shop to buy a memory card.
  6. Put memory card in.
  7. Swap the memory card and battery over as you put them in the wrong place.
  8. Realise the camera isn’t working and throw it out the window.
  9. Quickly run outside and catch it as you’ve had a brilliant idea.
  10. Recharge the battery.
  11. Wait a bit. perhaps you can read a book, or watch tv, or maybe take the pet camel for a walk.
  12. Take out newly charged battery and put in camera.
  13. As you believe in bad luck, there is no step 13.
  14. Switch camera on.
  15. Swirl it around a bit as you now view the world through the camera lens.
  16. Fall over as you got dizzy.
  17. Pick yourself up and look around to check no-one is watching.
  18. Smile to yourself and laugh evily as you now hve a new toy in which you may be able to cause world domination.
  19. Put the kettle on and make youself a cup of tea.
  20. Take a picture of your pet camel and share with your imaginery friends with their pet camels.

Have fun!

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