II RallyRUS international rally photo contest!

[Alex Nakhapetov]

So, the great rally season of 2008 is over. Engines stopped roaring on tracks of national championship, prize places are drawn, winners and champions’ names became known. The time has come for a final rally photo contest, for recollection of the most thrilling moments of races.

The time to select the best of those who stand, sit or lie along special stages under hail of stones and dust from cars rushing by, under rain, freezing in cold and melting in hot weather waiting for hours just to take an instant photo. So, dear rally photographers: here is your hour of triumph!

http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/eng/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1225996223&archive=&start_from=&ucat=&

http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/gall000/data/media/647/pacheco-inter-002.jpg
Luis Pacheco (Portugal). "Sical rallye"

http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/gall000/data/media/646/kulchitskiy-champ-003.jpg
Igor Culchitskiy (Ukraine)

http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/gall000/data/media/646/prokudin-champ-002.jpg
Andrey Prokudin. "The Champion and the Cup" (Russian Rally Champions Alexander Zheludov/Irina Kolomeytseva)

[Alex Nakhapetov]

Tens of nice 2008 season pics in RallyRUS Contest galleries!

We published three galleries of rallyRUS photographers.

Andrey Chursinov, who started rallyRUS project with me in far 2004

http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/foto/chursinov08/phpslideshow.php

http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/foto/chursinov08/2527304.jpg

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Pavel Nizkin, our Professor of black and white photography
http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/foto/nizkin08/phpslideshow.php

http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/foto/nizkin08/peno_08_test%20181.jpg

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Ilya Fedorov, our young author
http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/foto/fedorov08/phpslideshow.php

http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/foto/fedorov08/IMG_0169.jpg

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Welcome to Russia!

[Alex Nakhapetov]

As I've anounced in my previous posts, XII International Rally Photography Contest includes 6 nominations.

1. Rally 2008 Champion
http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/gall000/c...php?cat_id=646 (http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/gall000/categories.php?cat_id=646)

2. Rally 2008 International
(pictures from rallies except Russia)
http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/gall000/c...php?cat_id=647 (http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/gall000/categories.php?cat_id=647)

3. Rally 2008 Russia
(pictures from all Russian rallies - from Championship stages to clubrallies and sprints)
http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/gall000/c...php?cat_id=648 (http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/gall000/categories.php?cat_id=648)

4. RallyRUS 2008 Teams
( RallyRUS serves 19 teams websites, writing news and taking photos, so this category is devoted to our partners)
http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/gall000/c...php?cat_id=649 (http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/gall000/categories.php?cat_id=649)

5. Rolf Cup 2008.
(This year Rolf company organized special (10 rounds) Cup for teams driving Mitsubishi. The winner, team Andrey Zhigunov and Igor Ter-Oganesyants, got the main prize: new Mitsubisho Lancer X (not EvoX :) )
http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/gall000/c...php?cat_id=650 (http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/gall000/categories.php?cat_id=650)

6. Our traditional category "Hidden Camera" :)
http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/gall000/c...php?cat_id=651 (http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/gall000/categories.php?cat_id=651)

Rules for taking part in the Contest:
in English
http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/eng/index...t_from=&ucat=& (http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/eng/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1225996223&archive=&start_from=&ucat=&)

in Russian
http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/index_rus...t_from=&ucat=& (http://www.rallyrus.spb.ru/index_rus.php?subaction=showfull&id=1225975748&archive=&start_from=&ucat=&)

Welcome to take part in rallyRUS photo competition!
Thank you.

[Livewireshock]

Fantastic shots on the website as well as the ones posted here. I have posted the invitation across onto an Australian motorsport photography forum, Catch Fence.

[Mirek]

Very nice pictures!