beater

got out this weekend. thought we were racing the clock before the rain came. stupid weather app kept saying it was imminent. so we went to the closer show first at the community church.

that was busier than we expected. don't know why. it was sold out. but the promised rain did keep a lot of cars away. and mostly the cars we really wanted to shoot. so, after our fill of 1930s ford hot rods, we headed over to the swap meet.

unsuprisingly, parking was easy. clouds keep people away from swap meets. and it was still pretty early. turns out the car show was on the other side, so we had to walk through, get the bags searched.

was only about a dozen cars at the time. made the best of it, and shot some of them. some had their hoods up, some had too many people around them. chatted a bit with a couple of owners.

was fun, but then the getting up too early caught up with us, so we bailed.

liked this one, for all of it's wonderful messiness. maybe they'll leave it alone. i hope so. it's more fun like this.

didn't rain until last night. pfft.

orange is the new...

the car is orange. can't miss it orange. been orange for as long as i've seen it around. shot it before, i'll shoot it again. don't think i've posted a side view before.

haven't seen the tribe much lately. they're staying north of the 605 freeway or some silly boundary like that.

hey ron. 

rainy day

still sifting through older pictures. can't decide what to post. got it narrowed down to four cars. starting with this one. thought this looked pretty cool. early morning, whittier carshow last august. line up for the show. captive audience situation. just wandered down the line, picking and choosing as i went. not any real remarkable stories to talk about. just the pretty picture to tell the story.

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morning started with ambitious plans to go to the oc swapmeet, then a few car shows, all before the rain started.

we got as far as garden grove, had breakfast at a gonzalez market. it started to sprinkle while we sat in the car snarfing carnitas. figuring it would continue, we went back inside and bought more carnitas and ribs and headed home. swung out past where the viejitos monthly show should have been, last i heard. i guess it probably was too early, and also because of the sprinkles, nothing was going on. maybe it's moved on to somewhere else; it's been several months since i've seen any of them.

anyway, i decided i would just log on to the work computer from home, and try to get some of that done before the week catches fire there. it popped up like usual, but when i went to open a file, the server had nothing on it, and the other servers had red Xs. logged off and tried booting my other computer at work, but that showed the same thing. so they're doing something with servers at work, so i'm kinda screwed tomorrow.

i hope they're just shuffling data to some other location, or i'm not going to be able to work from home next friday, as planned. blah di dah.

sleepless in whittier

it's almost eleven. i slept in late this morning, and now i can't sleep. i suppose i'll go stare at the ceiling. my better half went to bed a couple of hours ago.

i'm trying to do some backups on my drives. problem is, i have a bunch of external drives, some of them older than others, some with this year and last year, some older. apparently, some aren't as current as others. so, i'm finding pictures i know i've posted, still marked as stuff to do. so i've screwed up somewhere on the backups.

i don't think i've put this one out there. from a couple of years ago, at the dia de los muertos show. pretty nice car. 

i think maybe i'm trying to decide if the lens i used to use shoots better, sharper pictures than the new one i've been shooting for the last six months. i think i'm leaning more toward the older one, even if the new one is supposed to be the better one.

then versus the old camera body and the one i use now. exif data says i shot this one with the newer camera body, older lens. what do you think?

rambling now.

car shows in whittier make me happy to live here in whittier most of the time, don't have to worry about parking and can sleep just a bit later and still beat the sun.

that, and my better half. well, mostly him. 

twofer

not much to say or time to say it...lunch is over and i gotta hoof back to the office.

been seeing these two fraternal twins together a lot lately, at shows and on others' photostreams. nice cars.

ttfn.

divining rod

i wandered through all the parking lots at the majestics new years' show, and back. new stuff arrived and i'd go back and try to find it. some cars had too many people around them on the first pass, but i got them on the next one.

that seems to be the only way to deal with a bigger show. pretty much why i just don't go to the really major shows people tell me about...just too many people...unless i can be there at the same time cars are rolling in.

this one i probably would have passed by, but there was no one in the way, and the paint on it was pretty well done. but looking at it now, i can't decide if it was the lens, or if that big phallic thing on the trunk was not quite centered. sort of the angle of the dangle...between two girls...boys and their fantasies. lol. at least it's up.

i would just be pissed, or would it be obsessivly crazed, to drop a crap ton of cash on a custom paint job and find it just a tad off.

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been working too much, or should i say, i have too much work. wishing they'd hire another person. trying out a contractor on a couple of simple jobs, but they're located in northern ca, so can't really get a feel for them, and i haven't seen their portfolio. should be interesting.

still, i have another couple of intense weeks coming up at work, so probably will be too fried to post much again. happy to have realized a bit late that it was a holiday weekend, but that just means i gotta work even faster to meet the deadlines. ugh.

pomp and circumstance

we went out to hillco's annual super cruise yesterday. good way to ignore the stupid bowl. and my deadlines.

got there early, shot a lot of cars before it got too crowded, left before noon. made someone happy with my parking space.

i think i made a full circuit at least three times. cars kept moving, more kept driving in.

saw this guy with a pompador at least eight inches or more high. happened to have my macro out and got this shot after he'd already passed by. i get it, and it was impressive, but do i really need to reiterate my thoughts correlating size and compensation? no.

found this chevy in between the buildings. love the backdrop of the building exterior and brickwork. happy that no one walked through the shot.

actually, people were being polite, and either going around or waiting for me to finish whatever i was doing. nice.

it was a good day.

la sucia

i have a headache. maybe i'm a barometer...its going to rain. took a walk uptown, to grab some lunch. bunch of motorcycles, and the blue and white at the cigar bar. maybe more will show up later, so i'll go for another walk.

liked this fleetline. well, i like fleetlines in general. liked the simple pinstripes. owner moved a hat out of the way in the back window, probably so i could get a clean shot of the plaque. thanks.

dark outside

ok, i guess i'll go for a walk now. heard a distinctive engine, probably a fleetline, drive by a little while ago. maybe they're at the cigar bar.

this was from last week's art show. little challenging to shoot at night. i used to do it a lot, but out of practice. guess i should get back out there more often.

flight line

one more for the day.

i did get out to pomona yesterday, albeit, way later than planned. late enough that my better half couldn't go; had to stay home and work. yay overtime, but seriously, no weekend sucks.

got away from the show cars and wandered through the sale area. i don't think these two were for sale. caught them as the owners were dusting them off, preparing to leave. actually the only shot i have that the owner with the duster wasn't in there dusting the green car. just something you deal with shooting this stuff. not going to ask him to get out of the way, when he seemed determined to keep at it, when i was obviously taking pictures of his car. thought about posting one of those, but i like the fins on impalas, and this was the best shot anyway.

not sure why he wasn't in this shot. seems to me there was another photographer shooting from the other side. maybe he moved for that guy. whatever. i got the shot with the airplane heading to the landing field on the other side of the fence. part of the fun of being in the flight path for the airport.