dvill’s forked tail

back by popular demand...nahh. i just don't have another image ready right this minute, and i've been busy this weekend.

i think sometimes i need to wait for some people to get out of my frame. one of the reasons i generally don't bother with the bigger shows at the fairgrounds and the like – too many people.

if i make this into an 8x10, i can either crop out the faceless guy on the left or lose some of the people on the right. i'm thinking the dude on the left is going to go bye bye on a print – there is too much and not enough of him at the same time.

reine, you have a lot of friends, i must say.

catalina flyer

this was nice car. have not seen one before or since. the owner thanked me for taking a picture of his car, but forgot to ask where he could see it. oh well. someone will tell him.

the cloudy skies and the sun setting looks almost like scotty is coming to beam it up. or is that a laser?

strike a cord

at the foothill ranch show, i was told that this is a very rare car. internet says it was only sold for a couple of years before the company went out of business. well, it also says "it's regarded as one of the most beautiful cars ever built" – i guess that would be in the eye of the beholder – it's shiny and expensive and stuff, but it seems a little clunky to me, compared to some of the other "elegant" cars of the same period. i can imagine darth vader driving this one around, but i don't know why.

the owners were very nice. i didn't stay to the end of the show, so i wonder if they won any of the trophies or whatever.

i just love the weather lately. overcast skies make the pictures more dramatic, or at least tone down the harsh reflections. and the chill in the air, while it chases a lot of the cars home early, allows me to keep taking pictures longer into the summer, so i'm happy.

girls55 / boys 0

so i bet the owner of this ‘55 wagon has been wondering when his car would show up. patience usually helps. if i remember correctly, i think he (the guy peeking out behind the car) said this one actually is his wife's car. this was from the signal hill show i stopped at early last month, where only three cars showed up. i think everyone was at ink and iron that weekend. this guy left just after i did, so he definitely didn't win the raffle.

wondering what the attendance will be at shows this independence day weekend. my other nephew is coming to visit, and really enjoyed the one show i took him to before. he used my other camera and took lots of pictures; even sold a couple, so he wants to have a go at it again. it's good to encourage a kid's interest, and what better than cars and photography?

little deville

here's the grille of a 1960 cadillac deville. 3d coming at you. belongs to this car i posted way back when i started this blog. owned by the guy with the hat there (hi reine).

i hardly ever see it out at the shows, so i took the opportunity to do several angles on it. i have a couple of other shots i should probably work up that would be interesting to show you sometime; just takes time, and i don't have a lot of it lately.

big ass

garden grove main street show. i hadn't been in a few weeks. it didn't seem as busy as it usually is. why was the parking lot of one of the two colleges just off main street being patrolled now and no one allowed to park there? that's where a lot of overflow cars would park. hmmm.

well, i walked up and down main street and the one side street a couple of times. i got some really good shots of several impalas, fords, chevys, a mercury, but i thought i'd share this 1948 chevy fleetmaster with you first. i also walked by several that i keep wanting to shoot, but hoods are up, owners sitting in the way or the light just wasn't right...maybe another time.

i know the front is where all the action is, but this image just seemed more interesting, a story waiting to be told. maybe it was the ladies in their chairs keeping an eye on me – they belong with the truck hiding on the other side of this one, but i wasn't interested in their antique truck full of, i assume, fake fruits and vegies with an old timey feel, if its the one i'm thinking of.

and the flags add to the 4th of july feel, which is only appropriate this week too.

corvette summer 1

so, i'll post another picture today, as i suspect i'll be busy at work tomorrow, followed by a stop at the foothill ranch show.

spotted this 1960 corvette at the enderle center show a few weeks ago. i don't think i'd ever seen one before. the owner is pretty special parking it on the curb like that – make sure everyone notices it. only shot i have of it...the sun was out, i was wearing black, and it just got too hot to stay much longer after this one.

damn fine thirty-nine

so i stopped at the show at the peris on alondra last wednesday. what the hell was a power 106.7 booth doing at an oldies car show cranking out the shitty new music ultra loud doing there? i'm not that old, and i do listen to that station, but wtf, it doesn't belong at a show like this. when i got there, the car show people were playing some really good brian setzer, perfectly fine, even if not from the 50's. but damn if 106.7 wasn't playing the most inane music with no meaningful lyrics, just butt-thumping beat and singers that can't sing without a studio enhancement...geez.

anyway, this beautiful ‘39 chevy master deluxe was sitting in the corner of the aisle, sun hitting it just so. the owner was sitting at a table to the right, presumably collecting entrance/raffle fees(?) for the show. his buddies were giving him a hassle about an inflated ego, if his car ended up on my website. so here you go, don't let it float away with you.

orange you glad

so this one was just kind of a dare. the owner didn't think i could get the color of his car right; i guess most pictures don't catch the tangerine orange sparkle/glitter paint very well. it probably still is somewhat off, especially when you throw in the yellows from the sun setting behind me onto the paint.

i'm going to have to start carrying a swatch book so i at least have some reference for what the color should be.

roar of thunder

the sun was fading and the neon came on by the time i decided to shoot this bird. i had seen it earlier and hoped it would stay put until just this moment. perfect parking space, wedged into the corner handicapped space, without any other cars crammed in close by.

i'd never seen this particular model, nor a bird in not quite perfect condition. owners of these seem to be pretty anal about keeping them clean and just so. why is that?

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on another note, i've been running into some people that have seen me shoot their cars previously and wondering how come they can't find them here. some seem to even expect free pictures, or seem shocked by what i consider a pretty fair price for a print. makes me wonder what other photographers are doing to lower people's expectations so. please see a past post on why you won't find thousands of pictures just dumped here, or even on my flickr site.

i do try to work on cars that people particularly ask about, if i think the shot was any good, but i do have a full-time job doing real work, that really has been a time suck lately...staying extra hours trying to put a dent in the work load. then also trying to shoot as many shows as i can before it gets too hot outside, i've been slightly remiss in my daily postings.

and if you really do want a print, shoot me an email, we'll make a deal of some sort. i think i'll start asking for some type of deposit before going all out on images...i've got a couple people that were totally all about it, but then flaked on me. thanks guys. btw, i don't mean you, dave.