Event – All Japan Day with a Disposable Camera

All Japan Day (AJD) is the largest annual Japanese Car show on the calendar here in Adelaide. It has been going for over 10 years and the profits from the minimal entrance fee are donated to charity!

This year was the first year I have entered a car of my own (it has been on the bucket list for many years trust me!) but I am going to go into more detail on that in a separate post.

In fact for this post I am going to keep it very simple, what I decided to do was take a disposable camera and walk around taking pics with it (I also had my ‘proper’ camera – I will use those images ina mroe detailed post at some stage). I thought it would suit the laid back event and I told myself no matter how the pics came out I would have to share them all! So without further ado:

I believe these are in order that I took them on the day…

The colours got a bit effected by the incredibly bright Australian summer sun but I like the vibe they give! Missed the focus on this one a bit haha

Some high power drag cars were on display in the centre of the cars – each year is a different theme. Over the years there have been LFAs, 2000GTs, various Skylines, etc.

I wondered out onto the road, it is always good to check out the cars spectators drive – boat life haha.

One thing I did notice with the disposable camera was the difference between what area was included in the view finder and what actually made it into the final images!

Another shot from the road showing spectator’s cars.

Believe it or not I was trying to take a picture of the bird (as in the animal on the persons shoulder!) not the skylines here!

I have read there can be up to 10,000 spectators over the day and there are 100s of cars entered!

Pwhoar! N1 with accompanying R1 engine! A car I would love to have in the garage let alone just spend some time with…

At the end of the day as everyone was heading off I tried to do some pan shots – the results were average haha

Every year cars leaving is one of the highlights and spectators watch from the road – generally most people are well behaved (police know about and patrol the event)

One of Adelaide’s cleanest Civics (& cars) period.

Like I mentioned at the start I hope to do another article using the images from my DSLR and go into a bit further detail about the event, some of the cars, etc.