{"id":1106,"date":"2011-10-31T05:53:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T05:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2022-05-07T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T09:36:47","slug":"2005-lotus-elise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"2005 Lotus Elise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to use my first post here as an opportunity to introduce myself. <a href='http:\/\/www.guysmith.org\/blog\/t4c7hkx\/'>\u0643\u0632\u0646\u0648888<\/a>  My name is Otis Blank and I will serving as a contributor here at Desert-Motors. I, like Patrick, am a (primarily) automotive photographer located in Arizona. I plan to post the best of my photoshoots and event coverage photos as they happen here. My collective work can be seen <a title=\"www.otisblank.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.otisblank.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here at my personal website<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/wide-side.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1111\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/wide-side.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/wide-side.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/wide-side-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> I recently was lucky enough to do a photoshoot with one of my all time favorite cars, the Lotus Elise. <a href='http:\/\/www.guysmith.org\/blog\/a3fwssfwq\/'>\u0628\u0631\u0646\u0627\u0645\u062c \u0645\u0631\u0627\u0647\u0646\u0627\u062a<\/a>  I love unapologetically focused cars like this that sacrifice almost nothing in the name of achieving ultimate driving performance. The fact that it looks great is also a bonus. This particular Elise has custom stripes running across its exotic outer shell that give it a very racy look while still maintaining classic\u00a0British\u00a0racing colors. <a href='https:\/\/www.hundevis.no\/2628bnc1\/'>\u0639\u062f\u062f \u0628\u0637\u0648\u0644\u0627\u062a \u0643\u0631\u064a\u0633\u062a\u064a\u0627\u0646\u0648 \u0645\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0631\u062a\u063a\u0627\u0644<\/a>  It also has a similarly done-up interior with custom upholstered seat done in the same yellow and white. The door panels have a similar treatment. That may not sound appealing on paper but in person it actually looks great. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/3quarter-wide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/3quarter-wide.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a> I figured I should shoot this car somewhere it would be comfortable, in this case Gates Pass road. Known for being one of the windier roads Tucson has to offer, the Elise felt right at home. I had a lot of fun shooting this car, I look forward to doing more shoots like this in the future. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rear-quarter-wide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1118\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rear-quarter-wide.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rear-quarter-wide.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rear-quarter-wide-300x106.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/cpg\/thumbnails.php?album=275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>\u00a0Check out all 10 photos in the gallery here!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to use my first post here as an opportunity to introduce myself. \u0643\u0632\u0646\u0648888 My name is Otis Blank and I will serving as a contributor here at Desert-Motors. I, like Patrick, am a (primarily) automotive photographer located in Arizona. I plan to post the best of my photoshoots and event coverage photos as they happen here. My collective work can be seen here at my personal website. I recently was lucky enough to do a photoshoot with one of my all time favorite cars, the Lotus Elise. \u0628\u0631\u0646\u0627\u0645\u062c \u0645\u0631\u0627\u0647\u0646\u0627\u062a I love unapologetically focused cars like this that sacrifice almost nothing in the name of achieving ultimate driving performance. The fact that it looks great is also a bonus. This particular Elise has custom stripes running across its exotic outer shell that give it a very racy look while still maintaining classic\u00a0British\u00a0racing colors. \u0639\u062f\u062f \u0628\u0637\u0648\u0644\u0627\u062a \u0643\u0631\u064a\u0633\u062a\u064a\u0627\u0646\u0648 \u0645\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0631\u062a\u063a\u0627\u0644 It also has a similarly done-up interior with custom upholstered seat done in the same yellow and white. The door panels have a similar treatment. That may not sound appealing on paper but in person it actually looks great. I figured I should shoot this car somewhere it would be comfortable, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[221,147,108,120],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","tag-british","tag-elise","tag-lotus","tag-otis-blank"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3026,"href":"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desert-motors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}