Mark Bolton Photography

_{2012 F1 UBS Chinese Grand Prix (Click Image to view Larger)}

That time of year again, the Formula 1 Grand Prix season is underway and my local race the Chinese UBS Grand Prix is the third race of the season. A season that so far promises to be quite an exciting season as following three races there have been three different winners. I enjoy photographing the F1 race as it is quite technically challenging, high speed cars require high shutter speeds, but as always with the Chinese race dimming light conditions mean that you need to use low apertures and boost the ISO but not by too much to avoid grain to get the right exposure. Anyway enough writing, onto the pictures after the break.

_{Early Morning Training (Click Image to view Larger)}

The Dubai Gold Cup is known as the richest race in horse racing, it is held at the Meydan Racecourse in the desert just outside of Dubai. This year the race will take place on the 31^st March, and the total prize money this year will be 27.25 Million US Dollars. I was fortunate enough to spend the last week at the Meydan Hotel for a conference and see one of the meetings for the

_{Seoul Night (Click Image to view Larger)}

Seoul at Night

Often the time a city really comes to life is at night, for me I love night photography and playing with the light, apart from the fact that most of the time I am doing my day job during daylight hours, even when I have spare time I will wait for the twilight so the colours come alive both in the sky and in the buildings. The image above is taken from in front of the Gwanghwamun Gate looking down into Seoul, I loved the way the traffic bent around the end of the central plaza, so I decided to

_{Traffic rushes past Gwanghwamun Gate(Click Image to view Larger)}

Korean Palaces

Where I was staying in Bukchon is located directly inbetween and within easy walking distance of both the National Palace Museum of Korea (Gogungddurak) which houses the Gyeongbokgung palace, the National Folk Museum and is fronted by the Gwanghwamun Gate, and the Changdeokgung and Changgyeonggung palaces. The buildings in the palaces date from the 14th and 15th centuries built by the

_{Korean Dragon Drum (Click Image to view Larger)}

A place to stay in the centre of Seoul

I have travelled to Korea many times and always enjoy visiting the country, but it is very rare that I get any time to myself, this time I happened to have business which spanned a weekend and decided to spend a day in Seoul sampling some of the culture and ambience of the buzzing city.