Day 13 - The week started of with much planned, namely to get some street photography done, but rain ruined it quite successfully, so we ended up rescheduling for later on in the week when less rain was forecasted.
Natural lighting with a 24-105 f/4 L strapped to my 60D yielded the picture. Bokeh isn't too terrible in my opinion either considering some of the reviews of the lens!
Day 14 - Well, where do we begin here. Purchased our second car from BMW Sytner High Wycombe. Not only the same dealer, but the same salesperson. Naturally the sale couldn't have been any more hassle free, however within a few short months of ownership, the wheel started to corrode (and quite badly at that). Fired off a few emails to the sales person whom said bring it in for them to have a look at, as I had exams at the time, I sent plenty of photographic evidence to them and when I did finally manage to get the car in for them to look at the wheel, I was fobbed off with "Oh it looks like it's been refurbished, and quite badly at that" from the person in the service department and from the sales person who promised that he'd make sure something was done about it, "We'd have a look at it again when the Inspection II is due (BMW's big service)
Now to anyone reading this, I'm sure you're thinking what I thought then...if corrosion is looked at in Inspection II and the car isn't due one for 2 years, then what's the point in a warranty/goodwill. Well that's what my thought was too! Incidentally, my university's law school has the most comfortable working environment so I wasn't short of access to a library of legal books on consumers rights. As a result, I've fired off an email to a variety of people at Sytner BMW and will await their reply (hopefully with some good news if they want our return custom when my mother opts for a shiny Alpina!)
Day 15 - Continuing from issues with Sytner BMW, my mum's e92 335i has had a few issues with fueling. After several trips to the dealer (which included them being happy to change just 1 (ONE) spark plug and send the car on its way) I figured it needed a decently long run where it would be able to get upto speed (nothing illegal of course) so a trip to London for a spot of Five Guys was needed (if you go, make sure you get the cajun fries!).
Being shafted by the insurance companies, I was riding shotgun, camera in hand and happened to spot this absolute beauty on the way in. Resulted in a gritty image that I'm super happy with!
60d with a 30mm f/1.4, shot wide open.
Day 16 - Following the rain on Monday, I finally ended up going into london for a day of street photography with my buddy Suraj. (check out his Flickr photostream here) Continuing from that awesomely good looking 911 from the day before, I thought I'd snap this too.
The rest of the shots that made the cul are here.
60D with the 30mm resulting in a long exposure with the aid of a tripod.
Day 17 - The day has finally come (I always kind of hoped it never would though). The black mk5 you may have seen before in my photostream is going to be up for sale (completely stripped back to oem spec). Before that happened though, we needed a last Rocky's, Starbucks and a few pictures.
60D with the 30mm resulting in a long exposure with the aid of a tripod.
Day 18 - The last shot I'd get of her (she's named Jasmine for those who were wondering). I guess this constitutes as a separate day due to the fact she's been in my life longer than any of my cars (what an incredibly harrowing thought!)
We've had a lot of fun with this car, fair few miles covered, plenty of curly fries and burgers consumed, coffee drunk and earth shattering bass heard. Will certainly miss this car.
60D with the 30mm resulting in a long exposure with the aid of a tripod.
Day 19 - Now we're at Sunday and the theme here is track days. Obviously being somewhat of a princess, I didn't want to run the risk of wrecking my Z4 on a track, so I started looking for a cheap trackday car.
Requirements were it had to be cheap, road legal, decent engine and rear wheel drive.
For those petrol heads out there it's pretty much either a Nissan or BMW that would fit the bill and having a huge weakness for BMW's it was a no brainer.
So after finding a decently priced e36 323i coupe for sale, I went and took a look at it and after a drive of the car as well as some negotiation, the deposit was put down.
The previous owner had ended up with a few parts which he never managed to fit, so he literally handed me a box of parts as well as plenty of paperwork, with a date set to pick the car up in a week's time. Excited is certainly an understatement.
