It’s funny, I shot a series of photos of Randy Corson’s Checkmate and Liberator in Sanford, Florida a few years ago.  These images were supposed to be for the Mercury Racing calendar, but they were never used as such.  We had a great time shooting those and it was a perfect day, so I had no regrets that the images were not featured in the calendar.

Since the photo shoot a number of images from the series were posted on the Scream And Fly and Checkmate-Boats forums, and eventually caught the attention of the editors at Sport Boat Magazine.  So they contacted me and I sent over some images of the Checkmate for an article they were featuring on affordable outboard-powered boats.  They ended up using the obvious cover shot, as well as a shot at speed for the two-page spread and feature.  A number of people asked what camera and lens I used, which was a Nikon D300 and Nikkor 70-200 2.8 AF-S VR.

Well I’m glad the images got some use at least, and I know Randy is.  Maybe I should use my cameras more often.