Glenn Smith

Male

Columbus, GA

United States

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About Me:

I'm a motorsports photojournalist, working with the Associated Press, the Indianapolis Star and other news organizations for twenty years and a member of the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association.

I'm an Army Brat, born in Heidelberg, Germany, and have lived in Bangor, Maine, back in Germany near the French border in a little town called Zweibrucken, Nashville and Montgomery . . . but most of my time has been spent either in Atlanta or Columbus, GA where I was essentially raised.

I was a software engineer for 25 years before I finally had enough of sitting in an office for 10-12 hours a day in front of computers and decided to change careers dramatically to something that I have a real passion for. My work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Time Magazine's Year In Pictures, USA Today, People magazine, The New York Times, Washington Post, Atlanta Constitution, the Indianapolis Star, as well as most newspapers in the country. I'm a member of the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association (AARWBA), and while I cover quite a few NASCAR events, my heart lies with the Indianapolis 500 and the FAST cars. (That's why Indianapolis is my 2nd home during the month of May!) I've covered Indy and NASCAR racing since 1989, have been the team photographer for the Columbus Cottonmouths professional hockey team for six seasons, and I've also photographed the Atlanta Thrashers and Atlanta Braves.

Covering auto racing has allowed me to be part of many memorable moments, both good and bad. Jeff Gordon's win at the first Brickyard 400, Buddy Lazier winning the 1996 Indy 500 with several broken vertebrae, Dale Earnhardt (Sr and Jr) winning the Daytona 500, Sam Hornish's dramatic pass at the line to win Indy in 2006, "Danica Mania", Kevin Harvick's photo-finish at Daytona . . . they were all great. But in this dangerous sport there are also dark days, like the 2001 Daytona 500 when Dale Earnhardt crashed in front of me on the last lap, in 1995 at Indianapolis when Stan Fox's car broke in half and he was critically injured in a horrific accident at the start of the 500 and in 1999 when a tire flew into the grandstands at Charlotte Motor Speedway and killed three spectators. And most recently, the horror of watching Carl Edwards fly into the fence at Talladega that thankfully contained him, narrowly avoiding a catastrophe of unspeakable proportions.

PLEASE NOTE THAT MANY OF MY PHOTOS HAVE THE WRONG COPYRIGHT YEAR ON THEM -- SOME ACTUALLY DATE BACK TO THE EARLY 1990'S.

Location

4671 Northgate Drive

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