here's another for the day. from legend's san pedro show. i was there before the sun came up. they can't keep you out of the park. so there i was dodging the cars as they were bringing them in. actually, i'm pretty good at staying out of the way. i can move on, and come back later.
here, the sun is just coming up, the light still purple. makes it worth the effort of getting out of a nice warm bed—you just can't get this light at high noon.
so its kind of trying to rain outside. just rain already.
vacation time is way better when you've got something or somewhere planned to be. i got nothin. maybe if it was spending the time in my own house, rather than my better half's. but my kid is still living there for at least one more semester.
i guess i'm looking forward to freeing all my stuff from storage. it will be like christmas. then deciding on what i don't really need anymore—been without it for four years—so how much of it is just old baggage from a past life?
meanwhile...three more days to figure out what to do with. still doing backups and copyright filing.
thought this one from bob's big boy was ok. this car parks here a lot. if he's handicapped, that would be the reason. anyway, the car sits, i move. i liked this angle this time.
wondering if more than a few cars show up at the broiler on wednesday nights anymore. might just go over tomorrow if its not raining. week before xmas, used to get the lights on the drive-in and wreaths on the cars, so...
so, no plans this week, but here i sit, on vacation. supposed to rain the next two days, so i'm ok on that point. won't miss how people drive on wet roads. don't miss how they drive on dry roads. why is there always some idiot at five-thirty in the morning, that has to drive close to a hundred miles an hour, swerving between lanes? and where are the cops at five-thirty? i'm just trying to get to work, not the cemetery.
anyway, went to the market and stocked up on baking supplies. thinking of making cinammon rolls and/or sugar cookies. got a craving. always great here, with the peeps trying to cut back on sugar, especially the diabetic in the house. can take them over to my parent's house, but they don't need it either. well, they freeze ok, so my mom usually saves them for when she's expecting company.
also made a crap ton of hawaiian meatballs for dinner. had hoped they were sweeter than they turned out. better half had two helpings. not too bad if you take a mouthful with a chunk of pineapple. anyway, he always thinks they are better the next day.
then, on top of all that, have been working on my copyright uploads. just now stopped the computer to fiddle with a picture.
thinking this one from chicano park will do. end of the year coming, and yet another year's worth of pictures i'll never get around to doing anything with. maybe i'll spend the day posting some tomorrow. unless the cable goes down, because of the rain. go charter.
lifestyle cars are all extraordinary. i think its a requirement. meticulous, fantasmic airbrush, pinstriping and details. candy colors and multiple layers of clear coat paint.
they're also usually surrounded by admirers, and i can't get a clean shot edgewise, so i mostly have to pass them by. unfortunate.
caught this one from the back, where one can often find some pretty spectacular airbrush portraits. ok, this one is more fantasy-like. dream on, big boy.
i don't like oranges, tangerines, cuties, citrus, you name it. i'll drink orange juice, but just can't chomp down on that pithy, grindage of the fruit. especially the big oranges, with the white scum coating the good part.
but i like the orange on this impala. around back of the k1 sports, at the old memories harbor area show last june. little newer model than my fav, 1959, but this is quite nice anyway.
i think it's a customized buick. or a misshapen watermelon. i dunno. its all curvy, and i've never seen another one, unless it was the same one, which is entirely possible, since i get to so many shows with all the same cars, but let me put an end to this run-on sentence here. <breathe>
caught it waiting in line to get in to the uptown whittier show back in august. the later the organizers are getting organized, the more time i have to shoot the sitting ducks in staging. so yay for the disorganizers! sucks for the people waiting. didn't last so long this year, but still got quite a few ducks that day.
i know, i know. should have been there. sorry, i was outta town. even managed to miss the whittier parade that passes outside the window.
back in whittier, watching the intersection. seeing my own parade of old chevys and a cadillac driving through going to who knows where. maybe uptown to the ceegar bar? maybe i'll wander down the street and see. those shots just end up on instagram.
couple more from the latin gents show. beauties, both.
was there at the end of the show. stayed for the awards, and the raffle. bought tickets, but didn't win anything. didn't need a tv anyway, though the cash would have been nice.
my schedule has been so insane lately. i'm just tired. so its a good thing they are making me take time off at work next week, right? really only because i've got too many hours saved up and its the end of the year. short notice, and my better half has to work, so what the h am i going to do for a week?
i guess i can get around to doing some backups and doing some end of the year copyright filing. anything but go to the mall, if i can help it. maybe i'll drive up to the bob's big boy show in burbank next friday. probably just a bunch of rich white guy cars.
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i have several pics ready to post; just haven't been home to post them. so, finally, here's one from the whittier uptown show. don't see these hupmobiles very often. if i look through my files, i probably just keeping the same one in different places.
they're different looking. and there's that fragile looking hood ornament.
got out of my house late in the day. forgot how early the sun sets now. by the time i got to the latin gents show, sun was fully down and the lot lights were on.
gotta deal with long exposures, weird shadows thrown across the cars, and people wandering through the shots. true, there weren't so many cars by this time, so fewer people, but there were a few kids chasing each other. cause to mess up a few shots, as well as worry about knocking the camera over.
anyway, most people stayed out of my way, so thank you.
i haven't been shooting much at night since i bought the new cameras. don't really think they work as nice as my old cameras. too late now, one is retired, and the other gifted to my sister-in-law. she's a big nascar fan, so works well enough for her.
this was the first shot of the night. beautiful car. picture is a little darker and noisier than i would like, but it's ok.
getting ready to head over to the latin gents' monthly show. going to shoot some sunset pics for a change. then maybe dinner at disneyland. by myself. single-rider pass on a ride or two maybe. better half staying home playing with a camera, and then going to the market, supposedly.
hoping to get up early and drive out to pomona in the morning. doesn't look like rain at all. probably next week, when mooneyes happens.
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saw this wagon up at the end of the street at the old memories ela veteran's day show. was still getting shined up the first time i wandered past. fortunately, i went up and down the street a few times.
pretty car. not quite positive about the year. that's typical. sometimes, people actually send an email and let me know. sometimes, i won't even guess.
green with touches of red—that's about as xmasy as i'm going to get. i think i'll print it out and hang it with others on my cube walls at work.