Last weekend was a car show with a difference all courtesy of “Grace & Gears” on Instagram. The show was in fact a private car show aimed at content creators to be able to take photos of a few cars at a really nice venue. It wasn’t quite a secret as it was made out to be, secret enough to avoid general public. Matthew and Henry vetted who would attend the event for both the content creators and who would be invited to bring their cars along to provide a varied selection, classic pre war Bentley to modern day supercars. All but a couple of the cars turned up as expected so there was about twenty cars (a couple arrived and went) parked in strategic positions within the grounds to enable some really nice photos. The venue itself was Haughly Park in Suffolk, a mere fifteen minutes away from me. The venue is primarily aimed at weddings and public events so the grounds are immaculate and very picturesque. The content creators were set to arrive between nine thirty to ten, the cars were to turn up ten to ten thirty. I rolled up about ten fifteen and was one of the last cars to be positioned. I followed in a newer Mustang Mach1 and we were directed around a gravel track to be parked outside the front of the main house.

The event advertising post.

There are so many people I need to acknowledge it would miss some, so I have borrowed Grace & Gears posts where credits are given. Left are the content creators, on the right are the car owners.

I have missed anybody, please let me know and I will add you to the credits. When I see posts of the event and it shows my car I will downloaded them for my own blog.

This first batch of photos are from the venue itself showing the grounds. As we were sorting ourselves out there was a departing wedding party so a couple of cars had to be temporarily moved to allow them to depart. I think a few of them had a look at the cars before they left too.

For the cars sequence of photos, I have uploaded the high resolution photos of my car, they may look the same, but they are very slightly different. For the other cars only a slightly lower resolution. Each car has its own little sequence of photos. As most of these photo’s are high resolution each one can be up to thirty megs in size, so give please give them time to load, especially if you have a slow connection.

I tried to get photos of the cars without lots of photographers in the way, then at the end some with them all buzzing around the cars, a behind the scenes if you like. As I parked up I took a few of mine before the content creators were let lose.

The other three cars out the front of the house:

Combined house photos of the four cars

There was a main driveway which had a some supercars parked on it.

Off to the sides near the catering caravan there was a couple of parking spaces.

Along the main drive towards the house were a number of cars parked up in a line.

Some combined shots of the driveway

A custom made Harley Davidson joined us later on in the show.

Walking back to my car I wanted to take some more artistic shots where i could just about see my car through the gap between the hedges on the main drive.

Arriving back to the car for a quick drink there wasn’t many photographers around so I played a little more.

I had a little play around with some black and white versions of the photos.

Let me know what you think of the Black & White photos, or should I just leave the colour ones alone?

Behind the scenes photos of the meet.

It was a great day out for a little over fours hours at the meeting and less than fifteen minutes to get home. there were people taking photos as we left the area and I’m yet to see any of those pictures. Once I find them I will share them with you. I’m really pleased with the photos that I have taken, I would love to see what the professionals came up with.

As I was leaving Matthew gave me and all the other drivers a polaroid taken a little earlier, a memento of the day.

A big thanks to Grace & Gears for the day out and invite. Click here to visit their pages or cut and paste the link: Grace & Gears (@grace_and_gears) • Instagram photos and videos. The guys are looking for more events to host in the future too. Events like these are rare so I’m grateful to have been a part of their first fully organised show. Well done to Grace and Gears; Matthew and Henry.