New! The Kawasaki UK Z1Owners Club Photo Competition.
Your Mission: To Capture the Essence of Zedness in a Snap
The photo competition will be open to members and non members of the Z1 Owners Club and this forum and the brief is to capture pictorially the essence of what make the Z series Kawasakis so special. The competition will run over the summer, and the prizes will be presented to the winners at the Club Stand at Stafford in October.
Competition judges will include Steve Harris and Mick Grant.
The new Photo Competition forum gives full details of entry requirements and tells you how to enter. This forum will run while the competition is on, and discussion (on topic only) will be to help with ideas for entries and to encourage potential photographers, and we will also field technical questions on photography and offer advice and encouragement to those wishing to enter.
While technical ability of some sort may be a help it is the "magic" we are looking for and that can often be caught in a snap from the simplest camera taken at just the right moment. With digital you don't even have to wait for your film to be developed so get out there and experiment. Go on and enter what have you got to lose? Just make sure if there are bins in the background of your shot they are vital to the composition and the message. (Tip #1...)
Machines eligible as photographic subject matter for entry are: any air-cooled 900, Z1 – Z900; any air-cooled Z1000, Z1100 up to and including B1 and B2 Gpz1100. There will be three categories in the competition. Category One will be for pictures featuring standard Zeds, Category Two will be for modified Zeds and Zed based Specials, and Category Three will be for Zed pictures from "Back in the Day" - that is pictures contemporary with the age range of eligible bikes, effectively pictures taken between late 1972 and 1985 so dig that shoe box out from under the bed.
1st prize for each category will be an engraved glass award. Runner up prizes will be a high quality print of a Z1 with mention of the competition on it etc. signed by all the judges
On the right are a few random pics from the club archive. Just examples - show us what you think says ZED.
