hanging on to the past - vintage cars

Kudos to all those who can restore cars.  It must take a lot of work, knowlege, ingenuity and patience.  I wish I had the know-how.  At best I can change the tire and fluids on my motorcycle and car but that's about it. I would get into trouble if I ventured any further.  Here are two trucks that could be contenders for a restoration project, but they are quite beautiful as they are.  (Photos# 143, 144)

fragile memories, vintage train signage

A couple of years ago, I came upon a train museum and took pictures of the trains and some signage on the cars, not thinking about how long these will last.  Here's the link to the post:

http://image1001.blogspot.com/2011/01/train-museum-snoqualmie-wa.html

I went back the other day and I was shocked to find that they had painted over the signage I had taken photos of.  It looked like they spray painted the whole car a bright yellow without much thought.

I made it a point to take as many photos as I can of the signage remaining on the other trains.  They may not paint over them so soon but nature is taking over these as there is little attempt to preserve the trains.  That being said there is definitely a beauty about the rusting sides of the trains.  What attracts me to them is the once man-made elements being taken over by nature.  The beauty of the traces of weathering and decay which cannot be made by hand...

Anyways, here are a couple of photos I took: photos # 141, 142

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

figural gestures at the corner of the viewfinder and Dr. Who

I've been shooting a lot with my tilt/shift lens.  At first it was to get used to using the lens and then I started to really like using the lens and it felt wierd using a standard lens afterwards.  The kool thing is that I started noticing that figures in the edges of the viewfinder were so distorted that they became figural gestures, some graceful and others somewhat looking like zombies.  If anyone reads this, I'd love to get some feedback about whether it is worth it to pursue more images like this???

According to Dr. Who: "look exactly where you don't want to look, where you never want to look.  The corner of your eye..."

These photos using a tilt/shift lens have not been digitally enhanced other than cropping and adding a border no photoshop filters involved.  Photos # 139 and 140