Working with Fotki, a professional processing service, Automotive Traveler now offers high-quality automotive photographs in a variety of formats.
It is no secret that I am very involved with the web site Automotive Traveler. The site is really one of quiet elegance, compared to other sites that are all over the web. It is with great pleasure to announce that the high quality images that have appeared on the site are now (or soon will be) available for purchase. But why hear it from me, when managing editor Rich Truesdell tells it better that I could.

It’s no secret I love photographing cars. What I hadn’t quite realized was just how long I’ve been doing so… professionally and semi-professionally. When sorting files in my office recently, I came across a folder of car photos I’d taken in high school and college back in the Seventies. At the time, I was developing both black-and-white and color film, and printing both as well.

The photo you see here was taken at the 1973 New York show, held at the long-gone Coliseum up on Columbus Circle around 60th Street. What’s noteworthy about this shot is that it was the first time I went into the city without the family. Instead, I played hookey with my best friends, making it our own “senior cut day” and venturing in by ourselves.

You see, Automotive Traveler had visitors coming to see high-res photographs of cars, and Rich began wondering if some of the visitors might wish to purchase pictures from the gallery for their own offices or garages. The idea led to a new collaboration with Fotki.com, an online photo-processing service. Fotki offers high-quality photographic prints in sizes ranging from 4×6 all the way up to 30×40 posters. Especially with regard to the posters, the prices are competitive with local photo-finishers such as FedExOffice.

The first collection we’re offering is an album titled “Muscle Cars in Motion.” Almost two years ago I was approached by a major automotive-calendar producer to supply a series of muscle-car images. As a photographer, I’m probably best known for my work with muscle cars being driven (such as this 1967 Plymouth GTX Hemi hardtop, which appeared on a Musclecar Enthusiast cover last year). So, I assembled my best moving-muscle-car shots, and now with our new collaboration with Fotki, this means Automotive Traveler can now offer these photos to muscle-car fans.

Our next album in the works, coming next Friday, is a collection of recent studio photographs of a 1967 Camaro Z/28. Putting together this series was a real treat for two reasons. First, I had the opportunity to try my hand at recreating some iconic Camaro advertising images. And, I had the beautiful Courtney Day, a well-known, automotive-lifestyle model, on hand to present some period-correct fashions from the go-go Sixties along with the flawless Z/28. The picture here is a sneak peak at what this album of 24 photographs will contain.

Rich tells me that among the many thousands of pictures he’ll be sorting through are some extremely rare cars–such as the 1964 Chrysler Ghia Turbine Car and the Dan Gurney-Brock Yates-Kirk White Cannonball Ferrari Daytona from his Eighties Ferrari archives. Read the entire post at Automotive Traveler.