24 Seconds - Vespa The Resistance 24H - 2013

24 Seconds - Vespa The Resistance 24 H - 2013 from Scooterist on Vimeo.

Awesome VTR vid by Scooterist...!!

See recent Vespa The Resistance post here for more info & how to enter a team in this year's race...

Montmartre Vespa

LOvely Parisian vespa shot taken by Johann Oswald

Johann's website here - www..was-fuers-auge.tumblr.com

Subterranea

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Nice shot by Bruno Fagotti

TDC SC meetup

Taken by Joe Barthlow - 'Top Dead Center' Scooter Club meet up - see also

Retrospective Scooters book - NOW ON SALE

I've decided rather than registering everyone's interest for book to put it on sale as pre-order. Orders will be despatched from 19th April 2013, following the official book launch on 18th April. Therefore you can now place your order for book with despatch from 19th April. See link here to order book - http://vespamore.bigcartel.com/product/retrospective-scooters-photography-by-paul-hart

The book is priced at £29.50 with the following signed on delivery postage & packaging fees additional: UK - £3.50, Europe - £10.75, Rest of the World - £13.95.

I'm sorry the postage is expensive for customers outside of the UK; there's not much I can do about this & have spent some time researching the cheapest costs while still covering myself, with signed for delivery to ensure the book arrives at the correct address.

Payments will be handled securely through PayPal.

If you have any queries, you can email me at vespamore@hotmail.co.uk

Cheers - Paul Hart (vespamore photography)

vespamore photography online store - www.vespamore.bigcartel.com/products

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Classic Vespa

Glamorous shot taken by Al on the Amalfi coast, Salerno, Campania, IT.

80 voglia di andare a fare ungiro.....#vespa #et3 #piaggio #125primavera

Like this detail of Federico Savogin's original/period Pinasco pipe on his ET3 Primavera, see previous post here

3rd Vintage Douglas Vespa Run

Got my film back today which had on it the remaining 35mm film shots I took at last Saturday's 3rd Vintage Douglas Vespa Run.

I only ended up with 20 reasonable shots as the weather was so bad & my fingers were too numb to be taking fotos !

Slideshow below...

Retrospective Scooters - book launch event page

      Event page for Retrospective Scooters Book Launch now live, click link - here

Retrospective Scooters - Book Launch Party

 Event page for Retrospective Scooters Book Launch now live, click link - here

Just about there now - the book of 35mm film fotos I've taken at Retrospective Scooters in North London over several years, will be launched on Thursday 18th April 2013.

I'm proud of this collection of work & feels great to see it in print. Am also very pleased with the excellent layout work that's been subtly yet expertly applied by graphic designer, David Hardy from Team S Equipe.

The book will be launched during the evening of Thursday 18th April at a great little venue called the Cat & Mutton pub, in Broadway Market, London E8 - all are welcome. From 7.30pm - closing time there will be some cool tunes being played & the new book will be on sale too which is priced at £29.50.

There will be a free A3 poster of launch flyer (see above image) given out with the first 20 books sold on the night.

For those who cannot make the launch but would like to buy a copy of the book, you can pre-order the book here with orders being despatched on 19th April, the day after the launch. It is priced at £29.50 + postage and packing to UK/Europe/Rest of the World, available from the vespamore online store here

Initially the books will be on sale via the vespamore, Retrospective Scooters & Team S Equipe websites. The photography is the main feature of the book with limited text passages printed in English, Italian & German.

Cheers - Paul Hart.

www.vespamore.com     

       

www.retrospectivescooters.com        

      

www.teamsequipe.com

VESPA THE RESISTANCE VI

Team Vespa Barcelona, the talented guys behind VTR recently got in touch asking me to spread the word about the upcoming sixth edition of Vespa the Resistance. I'm very happy to oblige & advertise such a great event. Some teams from England attended last year & TVB would love to see more UK teams in 2013 & no doubt teams from the Emerald Isle too...

"For the sixth year running we are pleased to present the new edition of VESPA THE RESISTANCE. This year, for the second time there will be 24 hours of resistance.This year we still running at Zuera International Circuit (Zaragoza), a circuit that allows us to illuminate the entire layout, good facilities and services, and a camping area.

In this edition, as before the categories will be smallframe series, smallframe proto, largeframe series, and lambretta largeframe proto."

Visit TVB's website for full details of how to enter a team - www.teamvespabarcelona.com

iamscooterist often collaborates with Team Vespa Barcelona & have done so again this year to come up with a great t-shirt design & poster which you can view & buy here

www.iamascooterist.com

V Vespa The Resistance 24H by Scooterist from Scooterist on Vimeo.

Bangkok, Thailand

Great scene taken by Federico Pasini

Wet ride on a cold spring night

Nice shot from Joe Barthlow

Vespa ACMA

Very nice shot from Ralf Kühn

Florian Eisenberger's SS90

                             

A couple of great shots of Florian Eisenberger's SS90, sourced from here & here

Really like the style of this; refreshing it hasn't been given a full on restoration make over....

Una Vespa en Sevilla

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Beautiful shot from Ivan Dupont, I love the focusing (shallow depth of field) & soft tones... very nice work!

See previous post to view full scoot.

Ivan's photography website here - www.redbubble.com/people/monsieuri

Una Vespa en Sevilla

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LOvely shot from Ivan Dupont taken in Seville, Andalucia, ES. Haven't seen many vespa shots fom Ivan lately, nice to see he's still very adept at capturing them..

See previous feature on Ivan' vespa shots here

Ivan's photography website here - www.redbubble.com/people/monsieuri

Scootitude No.22

 

www.scootitude.fr

3rd Vintage Douglas Vespa Run

March 16th 2013 - I got up stupidly early this morning to go to Epsom Downs & get some film shots of the third edition of this event.

I had a rain soaked ride there on the Motovespa & could hardly feel my numb fingers while taking shots in the cold horizontal rain & strong winds. I then climbed back on the scoot & rode back to central London to start a day's work... Despite the soaking I was glad I went; this is a pretty special event & you rarely get to see such lovely old rare Douglas Vespas all together in one place.

Some more shots to follow when I finish the other film I started.



You can see the shots I took at the inaugural Vintage Douglas Vespa Run in 2011 here

www.vespamore.com

Also have a look at these shots taken by Richie Lunt via Scooter Geek at Saturday's event - www.scootergeek.co.uk

Cinquanta Speciale

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I came across this lovely image taken by Andrea Scirè  & asked if he'd let me post it on the vespamore site to which he kindly agreed.

I love the close-in detail & blue tones in this shot; you can see one of my own fave 50 Special film shots here

Please respect the artist - do not use or copy Andrea's image without his prior consent.

Andrea - grazie mille ; )

Curbside repair

 

Came across this excellent gritty shot via Black Coffee Club

vespa.. amore !

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Another great image seen via Black Coffee Club

I'm still surprised by the amount of folk who question the name of the website - 'vespamore'. It's simply a combination of vespa & the Italian word for love - 'amore'. So quite literally vespamore means vespa lover which sums me up, the main theme of my film photography & the essence of the website - there you have it ; )

THREE BRAVE MEN

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A story about three men who travel from Holland to Mongolia. A trip of 18,000km through 15 countries. Follow the preparations & journey by clicking link here

 

www.threebravemen.tumblr.com

Benzina

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What an excellent period vespa shot...! Discovered via Black Coffee Club

兩小無猜

Nice film shot taken by Michael Chang with Rolleiflex 3.5F Planar + Kodak Portra400 in 震安里, Chiayi City, Taiwan, TW.

銀色偉士牌

Gorgeous shot by Yang Ming ing taken in Taichung, Taiwan on a Sony DSC-RX100 digital camera.

Voigtlander Vespa

Love the colours & composition in this film shot by slightly numb taken with a Voigtlander camera

beyond brandenburg

Fantastic black & white film shot from Morgan Terrinoni taken with a Voigtlander camera.

The elderly lady in shot reminds me of this shot I took outside Covent Garden tube station in London.

See more of Morgan's photography here on his website - www.shuttertothinkphotography.com

Roll 5 Vespa

Feb 2009

50mm Heliar

Superb film shot taken with a Voigtlander by Lorant Smee in Melbourne, Australia

VespaVintage

Taken by Ralf Kühn with a Panasonic DMC-GF2 at vespa tübingen 20 jahre reutlinger vc

Vespa in bianco e nero

Really like this shot by André Auke, not sure where this was taken, great image though with a touch of the surreal to it...

Split Vespa

Nice HDR vespa shot from Shawn Clover taken in the historic centre of Split in Croatia.

More of Shawn's photography on his website here - www.shawnclover.com

The Mutant

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I remember reading about Marcus Wimmer's awesome project Vespa GS 225 VS5 '60s Style Racer, so called 'The Mutant' in Scootering magazine (October issue 2010). If I remember rightly Austrian, Marcus was resident in the UK where he built his GS racer with advice from the prolifically successful racer, Charlie Edmonds, before moving back to Austria. - anyway if you don't possess a copy I'd advise you to get the back issue from Scootering & read the full article, it's worth getting just for this feature.

You can see more of Marcus' creation by clicking link here to his album of shots on FB.

Tweed Vespa ad

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Vespa.

LOvely series of shots here from Raúl González taken in Mallorca, Ballearic Islands, ES

 

www.raulgonzalezphoto.com

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Street Photography, Bangkok ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Street Photography, Bangkok Thailand.
Vespa shot between girders in alleyway.
Hand held Nikon D300/Nikkor 17-55 2.8

Superb composition in this excellent street shot by Jon in Thailand, taken in Bangkok. The light & shadows are very dramatic with your eye being drawn to the central strip of activity & of course the vespa - great shot!

Andrew Ross - The Past in the Present

Andrew Ross, a photo by ms cat pants on Flickr.

Andrew Ross - The Past in the Present from Kate Logan on Vimeo.

A short Documentary about Wellington based documentary photographer Andrew Ross.

Vespas from Indonesia

 

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A couple of very nice shots sent to me by Fariansyah Noor from Indonesia - great work Fari & thanks for sharing these ; )

I'm always happy to publish decent vespa shots here on the vespamore site so feel free to email me at vespamore@hotmail.co.uk with your fotos.

Tuning

Another great shot by Erwin Kindangen, again taken in Jakarta, Thailand - see previous post

Erwin's photography website - www.bublio.com

Bajaj driver

Love this Bajaj/Ape shot taken in Jakarta, Thailand by Erwin Kindangen

Erwin's photography website - www.bublio.com

上路 老朋友

Rose amongst thorns... nice shot taken by Yang Ming ing in Taichung, Taiwan

Hidden gems

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LOvely shot seen via Black Coffee Club

Style file

Louis Vuitton Cruise '12 Look Book + Ruby helmet - foto by Cafe Racer Dreams

Vespa travels

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Showing my age, I know but I could happily go travelling like this with my vespa; you could get further quicker & tour the best localities on the vespa....

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