Event Coverage : 2013 Starliner Part 4

For Part 4 we’re still at the show, and we start with Aaron of Fast A.L.’s Upholstery’s Ford and Mickey’s (StrayKatKustoms’) 60 Chevrolet flattop with 60 Merc Grille and Pontiac taillights.

Joe brought this beauty out for us all to drool over.

I caught Jack unloading some chairs out of the trunk of his new 51 Ford. Body, Paint and a bunch more stuff by Chaotic Customs.

One of my favorite new rides of 2013 is Butch’s 40 Sedan.

It still rocks a straight 6 but Steve’s 58 Ford moves on down the road and looks good doing it.

All the way from Omaha, NE to Wichita to hang with us. Thanks for coming down!

The Merc grille looks good with the 51 Ford turn signal housings.

If you don’t know Gears and Gals Magazine, you need to go to their site and order an issue. You should then buy a subscription.

Good to see you again my friend, 2 weeks in a row even!

Mickey’s Merc always looks good at the Starliner.

Joe’s Caddy is a ton of fun, maybe 2 tons looking at her…

Don’s Buick is probably one of the finest anywhere.

Some of my favorite Kansas City area folks.

Jeff and Verna brought this killer Plymouth hot rod up from Texas. I am planning on shooting this car this fall. If no magazines bite on the article, I’ll post it here for all of you to see.

One of the koolest places ever to hold a car show, even though this year it was quite hot.

Another shot of Steve’s chopped 40 Ford. Again, 300,000 miles on it and he’s owned it since 1969.

Friends and family.

I’ve seen this truck in Austin and a bunch of other places, I dig it every time.

Normally not my style but the nose art on the truck matches in with the location.

The McGregors, an American Car Family.

Hub and Gloria’s “Cinnamon” is my favorite kustom ever. It’s been together since the late 80’s. It’s been in magazines before but would you like to see a full feature on it here?

McGregor cars.

U.S. Mule even came out to play.

Jeff Myers of Premier Body & Paint brought out the 59 El Camino, Johnny Torres brought out his 41 Plymouth, and you can’t see it here, but Jim Allen brought out his “Corn Cobb Coupe”

Roy brought out this beautiful shoebox. The flathead is one of the cleanest ever.

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See you at a show,

Royboy

September 11, 2013September 26, 2013

Event Coverage : 2013 Starliner Part 3

So here we are on Saturday morning at the Kansas Aviation Museum.

I backed the Galaxie up under the wing of the KC135 as far as I could to keep in the shade.

300,000 miles and still looking good.

Butch M’s 56 Chevy

Doc Parson’s T. It’s perfect in every way.

Here’s the unedited version of Danny’s El Dorado in the morning. Check back later in the week for the full edit.

The Lonely Knights show up in force! and they park under the bomber wing for morning shade and a kool look.

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See you at a show,

Royboy

September 10, 2013September 26, 2013

Event Coverage : 2013 Starliner Part 2

The 2nd stop on the Garage Krawl for our group was my friend Roger’s house. Due to it being a private property I will not mention his last name or where it is. Roger has a fantastic collection of Fords mostly 40’s of various types and a couple of Falcons and more, but his automobilia collection is equally as impressive.

Great old signs

Extra parts

Some grilles in the background behind this great plane

Dashes, grilles, and beauty rings

So the power company puts in an ugly power station behind your house and keeps building it bigger… well you’d better find a cool way to hide it from your view. This works

Everyone’s backyard should be so kool.

More yard art, some of it I might have a need for, I may have to come back and make an offer…

The chain was just laying there, but I couldn’t help shooting a pic of the cool wheel and tire.

pretty kool mag.

One wall of the garage featured license plates staring in 1913 I believe, and sequentially going up from there.

Another wall featured only 1940 Kansas plates, from 99 of the 105 Kansas counties, that’s an impressive collection.

Some great car club plaques.

Great taillight lens display

What to do with your extra plates? Why not make an American Flag? 🙂

Then it was off to Chaotic Customs in Mulvane, KS for a shop visit and some lunch. Giant hot dogs, soda, chips and some homemade cookies really hit the spot. Here’s Mike Young’s 40 Ford pickup which is being built for SEMA this year.

Some of the projects under construction at Chaotic.

Then it was off to my buddy Jack’s place for a visit. Here’s a lineup of Jack’s rides. He has a 30 year head start on me but I hope to catch up one day.

Then it was off to Big Joe’s for an air conditioned shop visit (it was a hot one that day!) Here’s a “gas station” that Joe built to hold his compressor and welders and such when not in use.

Some of the art inside the main shop building.

Then I hopped in my buddy’s Galaxie for a ride to Rocky’s shop, we had a good line of 10 or so rides on the way there.

Rocky has a pretty kool collection of Wichita area club plaques too.

and the best chandelier around.

Then it was back to the hotel for some fajitas courtesy of the Lonely Knights. Thanks for the good eats folks!

The 100 or so people in the parking lot stayed out and socialized until around midnight. So many good friends that are all really more like family than friends. This is a big reason why this show is one of my favorites of the year.

Tomorrow starts the show coverage. Click here for the entire gallery.

See you at a show,

Royboy

September 9, 2013September 26, 2013

Event Coverage : 2013 Starliner Part 1

As I did last year, I got to the Host Hotel on Thursday evening about 7pm so that I could wake up ready to go on the Garage Krawl on Friday morning. After dinner with some friends I shot some night shots in the parking lot.

One of my favorite Mercs around.

Mickey’s Merc

Love that hood ornament

More of our friends from the Lonely Knights in Colorado

So clean, so simple

Aaron of Fast A.L.’s Upholstery’s Ford.

All the way from California to Kansas just for the Starliner!

My ride

The next morning it was up bright and early to get ready for the Garage Krawl

Hub & Gloria’s beautiful roadster

The first stop on the tour was United Engine. Lots of kool stuff to see.

Damn good looking flathead

Tomorrow we continue the Garage Krawl for the 2013 Stray Kat Kustoms Starliner

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See you at a show,

Royboy

September 8, 2013September 5, 2013

Last 2013 Greaserama Post

Here are some HDR shots from the Greaserama.

Proof that HDR doesn’t have to be wild, this is the style I prefer for most shots, just making the photo look more like what your eye sees (with a little extra something).

Then there are times when I pump up the volume a bit.

See you at a show,

Royboy

September 7, 2013September 5, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Greaserama Part 6

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A couple of my friends from The Dirty Martinis showed up Sunday and added some purdy to the event.

The girls were popular subjects

Yes I shot a bunch of this car but hey when do you see 4 doors that look this cool?

Ben Dragdaddys is inside says his lil friend.

Chad rolling out of the show.

FarmTruck giving a high speed ride through the fairgrounds.

The first 20 miles of the drive home I got the pleasure of being caboose in a 3 car train with some friends.

Kevin’s Galaxie looks sooooo good. Damn mine needs to be lower!

A bug collection on the windshield and chasing the sun back home after the event.

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That’s it for the regular coverage of the show, tomorrow I’ll feature some that I’ve spent a little more time on. Since I was shooting this show for magazine show coverage I didn’t spend much time working on artsy photos, it was more about getting the needed photos for the article.

See you at a show,

Royboy

September 6, 2013September 9, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Greaserama Part 5

I love, love, love this ride.

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And this one.

Cos on patrol, making sure that everyone is having the required amount of good times.

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Chad’s Buick looking bad bad badass.

Sooner or later we’ll cross paths and not just your truck and I.

While I was getting my hair cut, I warned Cos he may need one, this was the response.

I dig that truck.

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Denny’s Sedan looks good in any light.

Sonny’s truck is sick.

Nice work Ben Dragdaddy! Looks just like PR Eric.

Another of Chad’s Kustom 1947 Buick.

FarmTruck made the trip up to the Greaserama from OKC again.

This bad lil ride is for sale.

Moody’s Garage booth at the Greaserama

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Shane Z’s booth

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See you at a show,

Royboy

September 5, 2013September 9, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Greaserama Part 4

I’ve seen this car for years and it floors me every time.

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Good to see you my friend, and I still say using air to be able to clean your entire whitewall at once is cheating…

Good looking Chevy

The owner said it’s not finished but it looked damn good to me!

Punk Rod Eric surveying all that was 2013 Greaserama.

Punk Rod Eric overlooking all that is 2013 Greaserama. Good work to all of Los Punk Rodders, you put on another great show! — Click the photo to purchase a print anywhere from 4×6 up to poster size!

Lots of good looking shoeboxes at the show this year.

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See you at a show,

Royboy

September 4, 2013December 13, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Greaserama Part 3

That’s a lot of years on the Power Tour! Kickass!

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I’ve been seeing this truck for years, I really should do a feature on it on the site.

Good to see you and the family Don, see ya in Wichita this weekend!

Jeremy Barrett’s pickup.

When you can’t find a v12, two v6’s will do the trick!

Interesting hard top chop. I never made it over to investigate further, but I wish I would have.

Can’t wait to see this one done!

The flush mount skirts, the lake pipes, the spots, it’s all working for me.

See I told you if I got down low you couldn’t tell that the other half of the car wasn’t shammied… oops.

I keep seeing this car this summer but I haven’t had a chance to BS with the owner yet.

Jebby’s “Nadine” and the tail end of my Galaxie. Nadine looks damn good for 200k+ miles.

Neal was nice enough to give me a lift in when I walked out to the entrance to give my dad a wristband. I can’t wait to see the next evolution of this kool truck.

Random Crowd Shot

I’ve been seeing this truck for years at the Greaserama. Looks like a ball of fun.

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See you at a show,

Royboy

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September 3, 2013December 13, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Greaserama Part 2

For part 2 we’re still on Saturday. The show was big big big this year, I don’t feel that there would have been any way to get all of the cars and especially all of the spectator cars into the area of the old venue. It was pretty impressive to head up on the north hill of the fairgrounds to see all that the 2013 Greaserama was.

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Channeled Tall T, I like!

Clean

My ride, thanks to Jeff Myers at Premier Body & Paint in Arkansas City, KS for the kustom 60’s style paint and Clint Rowe for the pinstriping.

Looking good man!

An iconic recipe for kool

inally got to see my friends from Oliver Built Garage for the first time this year, I need to make more trips up to Iowa.

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Dick’s ride again, with the hood shut as all kustoms should be 😉

I love these two rides.

It’s always good to see my good friends Dan and Sharyl Stears, see ya again next weekend in Wichita!

One of my good friends Todd C. Jones, amazing guy and artist. Look for a feature on him coming soon!

I was hiding from the rain under a canopy, my camera doesn’t like getting wet.

More coming tomorrow!

See you at a show,
Royboy

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September 2, 2013December 13, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Greaserama Part 1

Man, what a great weekend! The Greaserama moved this year from it’s long time venue to a new one that was outside of KC, many denounced the move but the crowd that showed up on Saturday proved that change can be good. I’m writing an article for a magazine on the show so I’ll save most of my words of the event for that, here the photos will do the talking.

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My good friend Mike’s 53 Chevy Truck

ick’s Chevy just looks right.

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Interesting hard top chop

Chris’ 60 Ford, looking good!

Some of the Los Punk Rods Rides

Damn I love a long roof

Looking good bro!

Love the new intake Eric!

More for the next 3 days, or you can be impatient and click here to see the entire 212 photo gallery.

See you at a show,
Royboy

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September 1, 2013August 29, 2013

Automotive Art Gallery

From time to time in my car show coverage, I like to spend a little extra editing time on a shot. Most of these end up in this gallery. Here are a few of my favorites, these would look great printed on metallic paper in 12×18 or larger on your wall. Especially the HDR shots, they really pop on the metallic paper. Just click on the photo, pick your size and paper style and boom you are good to go!

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See you at a show,
Royboy

August 31, 2013August 29, 2013

1 Month Warning: KKOA Hotrodding Hullabaloo – Denison, TX

SUPER SIZED POST! FULL OF PHOTOS!

Last year I made my first ever trip to Denison, TX for the KKOA Hotrodding Hullabaloo. Like the KKOA Leadsled Spectacular in Salina, KS the event has some Run What Ya Brung Drags on Friday. The show this year looks to be a great time too, I wish I could make it but the new Sept. 27-29 dates for the show conflicts with another event that I will be attending.

Just down the street and around the corner from the show are my buddies at Atlas Speed & Custom, get ahold of them if you get down to the show, they have a lot of kool going on.

It was unusually chilly in North Texas on the Friday of last year’s show, here are some pics from the Drags held at a local airstrip west of Denison.

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Later that evening I went over to a local watering hole to see my buddies in the band Pushrod rock the house. Waaaaay too early the next morning I was up and at em again and headed over to the park for the show. I was greeted with a bunch of familiar faces from my adventures up here in KS and OK, and a bunch of new to me folks too. The show was small, laid back and really perfect for spending time with friends telling tall tails and talking kustoms.

Then it was out to dinner with some friends and when I got back to the hotel I couldn’t resist some night shots.

Sunday I went back over to the show to see who was around, quite a few had split town, but there were still some kool rides to be seen.

All in all, I had a damn good time, well worth the 12 hours it took to drive there and back! If not for the previously mentioned scheduling conflict I would be going back this year for sure. If you can make it to the show, get there, enjoy some kool kustoms and hot rods and of course hanging out with each other!

See you at a show,

Royboy

August 30, 2013August 30, 2013

New Royboy Store Now Open!

Well, it took some learning, cussing and figuring but I think I finally got it. What you should have now on royboyproductions.com is a fully functional store for buying whatever it is that you want from Royboy Productions. Embroidered Hats, silk screened shirts, posters, and more all available from this one place. If you have any questions please let me know and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can!

Go To The Store Now!

See you at a show,

Royboy

August 30, 2013August 30, 2013

A Look Back: 2010 Hot Rod Revolution – Austin, TX

Still one of my favorite shows that I’ve ever attended. The cars, the venue, the bands, everything just came together to make it a fantastic weekend. The Hot Rod Revolution in 2010 was the first year for the show in Austin, TX, it’s only about a 9 hour drive so it sounded like a great excuse to drive down and check it out. Leaving home at 6:15 pm I checked in to my hotel room at around 3:30am and went to sleep, 6 hours later I was headed to the show. The City of Austin Seaholm Power Plant made for a perfect backdrop of about 100 hot rods. 1948 and older only, traditional hot rod styling only, this show couldn’t help but be awesome. Here’s a slide show of that gallery, click here to go to the gallery directly.

Since then the show has moved to a new location in Austin at Camp Maybre. I attended the 2011 show there and shot photos that can be seen here. The show’s date has moved around and has conflicted with other shows that I needed to attend since and I’ve not been able to go again. Hopefully one of these years I can get back to it because it’s a great show of my favorite type of hot rods.

See you at a show,

Royboy

August 29, 2013August 28, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Clutch Rod And Custom Open House

So one day not too long ago I get invited on Facebook to an Open House at a shop I didn’t know in Wichita, KS. The open house was the same day as another event that I was attending a few blocks away so it’s a no brainer that I’m going to stop in if at all possible. Clutch Rod And Custom at 406 S. Market in Wichita, KS was the shop. I’m glad I stopped in. As I’m told, the shop is an old Mercury dealership, I’d love to see the spacious facility filled with bathtub Mercs! The front display room had a couple of cars in it and every available surface was covered in art by different kulture artists. The cars on display in the shop were top notch, I didn’t get much chance to talk to the folks at the shop as they were busy running the Open House, but I did get to spend some time with my good buddy Ben Dragdaddy (facebook) and his lovely wife and my fellow photographer and buddy Grant Cox. I expect you to go to their pages on FB and follow their feeds, you won’t be disappointed.

Here are some photos from the evening.

Thanks to Clutch Rod And Custom for the food, the music and some good times of hot rod/kustom fellowship with some old friends.

See you at a show,

Royboy

August 28, 2013August 28, 2013

1 Month Warning: Rumble – Wichita, KS

Coming up September 28th in Wichita, KS is the 6th annual Rumble (formerly the Rumble in Delano)! The show has a new venue this year, moving to the street where some of the first kustom kulture art shows in the area were held at the Go Away Garage.
This show has been a lot of fun to attend over the last few years, the date’s changed and now the venue but I have a feeling the show will continue to get better and better.

The show runs from 1pm to 8pm and will be at 508 S Commerce St. in Downtown Wichita, KS. There will be hot rods, kustoms, bikes and more on display. The Pin-up Pagent is open to ladies 18 and up and there will be prizes for 1st, 2nd & 3rd, go here for more info. 4 bands will take the stage at various points in the event including Sucker, Callahan Band, TheTerminals & The Trip Daddy’s. To register your ride for the show go to this page on their site.

Shots from 2012

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Here are shots from the 2009 Rumble

See you at show,
Royboy

August 27, 2013August 26, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Blacktop Nationals Part 3

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Century II housed some more rides

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Hooligans Hot Rods finished up the Zombie Merc last year, I can’t imagine the amount of tape that went into those flames.

The theatre room of Century II was full of some fantastic vintage racers of all types. From midgets to a fresh from Bonneville racer, everything you could think of was in the building.

This car was at Bonneville earlier in the month, on the 2nd day while running 249mph something went wrong, the car ended up rolling 17 times before it came to a stop. The driver is banged up but okay.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

That’s it for my coverage of the 2013 Blacktop Nationals, next up is the Greaserama this weekend (Labor Day Weekend) and Starliner next weekend.

See you at a show,

Royboy

August 26, 2013August 26, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Blacktop Nationals Part 2

For part 2 of the coverage we’ll finish up with what was outside at the Blacktop Nationals this year.
Part 1 | Part 2

Part 1 | Part 2

That’s it for what I saw and liked on the streets around the Blacktop Nationals, tomorrow’s post will be what I saw inside.

See you at a show,
Royboy

August 25, 2013August 25, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Blacktop Nationals Part 1

The 4th Annual Blacktop Nationals went down this weekend Aug. 23-25 in Wichita, KS. Based in the area of Century II in downtown Wichita the show stretches out across the Arkansas River to the west and to the south of Century II as well. The show welcomes all kinds of vehicles and has them out in the streets and inside of Century II as well. A road course is set up to the south of Century II for some ride alongs in new Ford Mustangs. Ford is one of the major sponsors of the show, and they go all out bringing their “circus” to town with new rides of all flavors.

You don’t see these very often.

The show judges the cars on the engine compartments, that’s why they all are open, yes I know it ruins photos and no there’s nothing that can be done about it.

A fun little roadster.

A clean 58 Chevrolet

I liked this Vette alot.

Mike’s newest build, a clean east coast style 34 Ford with all pre-53 parts except the 59 steering wheel, “it’s just too kool to not have on it.”

The cleanest shoebox in the area. So well done, so clean.

That’s it for the first installment. If you want to see the entire gallery go here. Tomorrow morning at the normal 9am time we’ll have a new update!

See you at a show,

Royboy

August 24, 2013October 23, 2014

Shop Visit: Dave Stuckey, Kustom Legend

A couple of weeks ago I was in Wichita on a Saturday afternoon and I decided to finally head over to kustom/hot rod/general car guy legend Dave Stuckey’s. Some may know Stuckey’s name, he was the man originally responsible for the amazingly kool kustom “Lil Coffin” (read more about that here). Dave has been working for awhile on a couple of really cool projects, one of them being a somewhat drag version of Lil Coffin, not that it set out that way but there are some similarities in the overall design of the body. His attention to detail on this project is phenomenal. Lots of kustom touches on items that will never be seen by most people let alone noticed, some subtle, some not so subtle. I won’t show you too much of the car, it needs to be a surprise. Here are some shots of it.

Another project in the works is this coupe, he has a beautiful flathead built for it and is just waiting to finish the big project to get back on it.

Here’s a shot of my favorite version of the Lil Coffin on an old Starliner poster. (More info on the upcoming Starliner show)I’m hoping to be able to stop in more often and sit with Stuckey and a video camera so that he can tell you some of his stories in his voice. It’s part of project that I hope to spend more time on in the future, more on that later.

See you at a show,

Royboy

August 23, 2013August 23, 2013

H.A.M.B. Drags Art

From time to time while I’m doing my normal car show coverage I’ll take an extra second and do some multiple exposure shots. When I get time I merge these HDR shots for a bit of a different look from normal. Mostly I try to keep them fairly realistic looking but occasionally I will get a bit wild. Here are some from the H.A.M.B. Drags. Remember if any of these shots are something that would look good on your living room or garage wall, click the photo to go to the shopping cart and order any size you’d like.

See you at a show,

Royboy

August 22, 2013August 22, 2013

Event Coverage :2013 H.A.M.B. Drags Weekend Part 4

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Thanks folks for following along with all of the H.A.M.B. Drags coverage.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

That’s it for the basic coverage of the 2013 H.A.M.B. Drags.

See you at a show,

Royboy

August 21, 2013August 14, 2014

Event Coverage :2013 HAMB Drags Weekend Part 3

Finally we hit the track!

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Of course my friends from Wichita the McGregors are there, any time you see these sombreros there’s a good time somewhere close by.

Hot Rod Hill Climb and Grandpa’s Hot Rod Booth

Really nice ride

Nick’s roadster is just getting better and better

Model A John’s ride

Some of my Mulvane Marauder friends were in attendance

Of course the Lil Honker, always a favorite.

My buddy John’s barn find gasser

The man, the myth, the traveling legend Bob K!

Butch M’s 56 Chevy Gasser got some new touches

Perfection.

Simple, cool, I want one.

Some of the best curves in the automotive world.

Bill Moore’s “High School Dropout” Merc

This is one of the slickest flatties I’ve ever seen.

Don’s 53 is always looking good.

Another view of Rick’s new shoebox.

Krobe’s fastback fleetline Chevy

There are a couple of shoebox utes in the area, this one has a ton of work in it.

Mike’s bad blue Chevy Truck

Kerry’s rail, I hear tell that about the time I headed for the hotel he pulled a 165 mph run, congrats man!

John and Butch warming up the hides.

That’s it for this HAMB Drags post, 1 more tomorrow and then maybe some special edits on Friday.

Thanks for following along on all of my adventures, remember if there are any photos you’d like to own a copy of for your wall, click on the photo here, and the site will take you to the appropriate page to buy prints. Every print you buy helps put gas in the tank to get me and my cameras to another show to bring you more show coverage.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

See you at a show,

Royboy