Last week I headed out to Sonoma, California and once again meet up with Mark Rebilas and capture the NASCAR Sprint Cup event at Infineon Raceway. Once again had a BLAST hanging out with Mark but more importantly learning more about Sports Shooting from one of the industry’s best, without Mark and U.S. Presswire I...
frickin awesome shots the ones where they are hitting the turn and are lifting up, those are some intense stills. love them dad!!!
i don’t know if my first post came up but i loved the shots of the cars coming around that turn.
you know me Robert, love the Jimmie shots
all the pics are really good!
Keep it up, you are really good with the camera!
Love the shots, Robert! Thanks for sharing! 
Wow–you must have been in “Racecar Heaven”!!!! These pictures are great—the color is just unreal—like I was sitting in the stands. Good work, Boss.
Fantastic Pics!! I’ve always been partial to the Earnhardts, though.
Thanks everybody, every time I get the chance to shoot these events I learn more so I am grateful for the chance. Folks often ask for certain drivers and I do my best get them. I can’t wait for Phoenix in November, home track and a track I know.
Hey Robert… can you guess which pic I chose as my favorite? I love this! That is exciting and you are an amazing photographer!
Beautiful pictures.
Nice ‘air’ you’ve caught on many of these shots! My favorite is the one with the three cars with #77 in the lead.
you capture photos great. nice art.
Your photos are great.
Keep it up, you are really good with the camera!
great post, thank you
Favorited by 7 Visitors Just exactly what is a Man Cave? Most of you may have already read about one or heard about one, chances are good nowadays that you either own one yourself or know someone that has one but just exactly what is a Man Cave? The source of all knowledge www.Wikipedia.org says…....
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The ever famous Earnhardt room. Schedule me for a tour.
very cool
Righteous man. Well done. Lots more info and details.
Where is it? I’ll be there in a minute. Some pretty good photos and a nice collection in your post. I like it!
Nice man cave!
Absolutely awesome!! Fantastic job…Hope you are home soon to enjoy it:-)
Amazing room Earnhardt just like your car room I have a small boat room, but it is nothing compared to yours this is really cool
This was so cool to look over. Gave me some really good ideas for the construction of my man cave.
Hi butterfieldphotos,
My name is Nelson and I’m the photo editor for WomansDay.com. We are doing a round up on Amazing looking Man Caves, and we would love to post your photo of “The Earnhardt Room” shown via this link: http://www.butterfieldphotos.com/Robert/2010/04/man-cave-madness-a-blog-page-visit-to-%E2%80%9Cthe-earnhardt-room%E2%80%9D/ We would be more then happy to give you full photo credit with a hyperlink to your photo on our site if you’re willing to share it with us.
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I have heard much about it but never saw it till now. Very nice.
Favorited by 1 Visitor On April 11th 2009, one year ago today Phoenix, Arizona’s Manzanita Speedway, one of the top 3 dirt tracks in the country was sold and subsequently closed after 58 years of operation. Also known as “Manzy” this track was instrumental in the early careers of Al Unser Jr., JJ Yeley, Billy...
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Yes, it is sad. I remember the days as a youngster sitting in the stands at Manzanita eating dirt and watching the mud fly. It was clean family fun; well you know what I mean. I moved away from AZ many years ago but am still sad to know it’s gone this was a big part of Phoenix in the day.
Rob, thanks for the photos and memories, Jim.
Manzanita Speedway was a nice track, it is sad that it is sold and it seems that it will be closed. I hope not, it is great for sport events.
OMG I had so many great times there
Im pissed and sick at the same time
really sad
thank you Manzanita Speedway
and thank you for this web page
very nice job
Favorited by 1 Visitor Recently I had an awesome weekend of shooting the NASCAR event in Las Vegas with Mark Rebilas and US Presswire. I have admired Mark’s work for a couple years now and he and I have shared emails back and forth and we talked about the chance to become a student/intern; because...
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Wrong? These look GREAT! I know what you mean though. The last few times I’ve taken my baby out I blew most of what I shot as well. I am either seriously off my game or Kuwait is just that non-photogenic.
Anyway, great work! My favorite shot was the one with all the fans crowded around the glass looking into where you were. You know they were looking at you and wishing they had that kind of access!
Dude – Those were awesome shots. Enjoyed them all. Great work and I hope you get more opportunities. Bellagio huh. Damn water keeps me awake. Saludos desde Mexico. T.J.
Very good Butterfield, I’m proud of you.
PS Your hair seems alot grayer since the last time you were at my house! Next thing you know what you said
heppening to me will happen to you, your hairling is not only
reseding but is in full retreat. GOOD JOB BUDDY
Angelo
Robert,
I should start by saying I don’t shoot motorsports at all, although I would love a chance to shoot motorcycle racing. These are interesting to look at an I think the composition is generally bang on. It looks maybe a tad punchy in the colours with some blown out highlights here and there, but that is really subjective. The two that confuse my eye out of all of them are the Danika Patrick one and the one with all the fans looking in. The DP one, the out of focus head in the foreground keeps drawing my eye – this could just be a matter of cropping. I compared it to the Karl Busch image, where the heads serve more as a frame and don’t really draw attention at all. The shop/fan shot, I struggle with the focus point. I don’t know if it would have been stronger with the fans in focus and the car out of focus, or a huge dop and the whole thing in focus. Again, I think it’s a great representation and these are just points of interest to me. I am curious if you found a sweet spot for the shutter speed on the parallel panning shot where the tires still showed rotation but everything else was sharp?
Day two had a lot of weather in the area, it rained most of the night and morning so the Nationwide Race was delayed by a couple hours. The 3rd Practice for the Sprint Cup guys was short and sweet and then they got the first race of the weekend going. Be the first to...
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