Paul Chapman Pictures Gets Muddy!

With the majority of motorsport championships beginning their final preparations before the serious business of racing begins, Paul Chapman Pictures has found one of the few categories that have already begun their season.

Last weekend the Cornwall & Devon Land Rover club held their first meeting of the season. The first meeting was an RTV (Road Taxed Vehicle) event - This comprises of road legal (and relatively unmodified) Land Rover 90's, Discovery's, Range Rovers and the odd Lightweight.

The aim of the off roading competition is to drive around a tricky off road stage, whilst driving through a set number of challanging gates. Unlike most motorsports, speed is not essential. If any of the gates are touched, the stage is over for the competitor, like wise if the competitors vehicle stops/stalls or gets stuck on the stage, the competitor can no longer continue or finish the stage. Each gate has a number, every time a competitor touches a gate, or cannot otherwise complete the stage the last gate that the competitor pasted through is scored. At the end of 8 stgaes, the competitor with the lowest number is deemed the winner.

Vehicle control, and driver skill is easy to learn - but hard to master, and can be shown by the wide range of ages of the competitors (which are also both male and female). Some of the members have been driving Land Rovers off-road for decades, others have only been off-road a couple of times. But everyone shows the same amount of friendly competition, which enables grass root (or in this case muddy!!) motorsport to flourish despite the grim economic climate.

The future to come in 2009

Paul Chapman Pictures would like to wish all of its customers and fans a peaceful and prosperous 2009. The final months of 2008 have shocked both local and global economies with large financial institutions failing to protect its own customers. As a result it has been predicted that Internet crime and fraud is likely to increase during the next 12 months. (Source BBC News website). To reassure all of our customers Paul Chapman Pictures would like to once again take this opportunity to say that although our website is still small and young, it is a very serious business, which is taking all the necessary steps to make our customers feel safe and secure when visiting our website.

By joining the SafeBuy scheme the Paul Chapman Pictures website has had to conform to SafeBuy's code of conduct. The SafeBuy organisation will also undertake anonymous orders from our website. This is to ensure that our website delivers what we promise to our customers. Secondly to combat online credit card fraud our website uses secure third party PayPal shopping cart technology to handle all financial transactions carried out on our website.

In the up and coming year the website will continue to evolve and feature more photographs, our YouTube channel will also continue to grow, with both more videos and even more video views.

Until next time...
...Paul Chapman Pictures.