Some fellow Blogspot’ers have been set a challenge to come up with metal-themed photos every day for five days this week. Their efforts are available from this jonnyandtracy.com page, so here’s mine.

Day 1, Expensive Metal – it’s not the plate that’s expensive, it’s the £1.2 million car that it’s attached to…

Jonny had a day at the Haymarket Studios to shoot cars, including a quick shot of the M5 – turning this:

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There were some nice cars there, including this Porsche Carrera S…

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and we spent the morning shooting a Mercedes Benz SL 350 Night Edition, complete with £4,000 matt black paint option…

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…and here’s the instructions on how difficult it is to keep that car clean!…

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£10 well spent (per car). Thank you Polish people – they even gave Aimee some balloons, that she let go of!

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All carried out under controlled conditions (ie, I didn’t press the 507 bhp button). The real-time footage:
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So, how about some slow motion versions?…

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So more super slow mo of the ’5 spinning. Ably assisted by Mat, we tried bleach for more smoke, and then some gravel…