oldies but goodies

finally made it out to the foothill ranch show yesterday. quite a few cars that i've seen before, more that i haven't. overall not that big of a showing for a once-a-month thing. anyway, i enjoyed myself and everyone was either friendly or indifferent.

the couple that owned this car came right over to talk with me. they'd seen me before at a couple of other shows, and had lost the scrap of paper that had the link to my website on it. damn, i really need to spend an afternoon setting up a business card and ordering them...i'd just rather spend the time working on a picture. :)

i admit, you'd have to introduce yourself to me a couple of times before i remember you—i'm more likely to remember your car and which show i saw it at if i took a picture of it.

well, since they asked and were very enthusiastic about my portfolio, and apparently i had shown them the previous shots in the camera, here is the shot from yesterday, and what do you two think? i do have a couple of other shots from a previous show, just haven't gotten around to doing anything with them yet, and thought maybe this one was more interesting anyway.

oh how does it get so late...i stayed at work too late today. night!

let's go to the hop

i think this is a 1949 ford, but i'm not sure. this one got one of the primo spaces, at least for a while.

i think i've done enough of these for the day–i'm spent. back to work tomorrow, and expecting a long day...and a long week. why do they put weekends so far apart?

pink when i turn out the light

this 1957 thunderbird was hiding in the back lot of the broiler. sun setting making the paint go salmon color. hope the owner enjoyed the show while i enjoyed their car.

ford flamer

check out the flame job on this puppy. owner corrected me: 1950 businessman's coupe [thanks!] i think its a 1949 ford custom...i hate when all the identity stuff is removed and have to guess at what a car used to be. not that i know car models anyway, but i like to have some way of tagging my pictures. this was at the main street show in garden grove this past friday evening. not as many cars as there was when i visited in march. i suspect i didn't stay late enough, though i was there for 2 hours, shooting and waiting to see what other surprises would drive up.

not too many people on the side lots, nor even that many on the main street to get in the pictures. i think they were still hanging out in the restaurants or quenching their thirst while i was there. more room for me to get the shots i wanted, so much the better. i figure the more pictures i take, the better they will get. oh and you should see some of the prints i have of these cars. i just got a batch of 8x10s printed on a metallic finish paper...wow! ask to see them if you catch me at a show.

got a woody

this one courtesy of the garden grove main street show back in march. i really liked this show, as i mentioned before. so many cars, not enough light. i haven't had time to go back yet. friday nights are always so busy for me...juggling priorities.

a lot of the cars were parked close together, making them more difficult to get a clean shot. this woody kinda had made it's own space on the sidewalk, near the entrance to another parking area. i had to patiently wait for people to move out of the way, since it was a high traffic crossing. could barely get my tripod set up without worrying about people tripping, so i had to do this quickly. wish i could have gotten a little more to the right to show more of the siding. oh well.

well, i'm going to be very busy at work this week, probably working some overtime. probably a lot of overtime in the coming couple of months. will make it difficult to work on my cars here and/or attend shows. that sucks. especially when it's supposed to rain this week — time not at shows meant time to work on my pictures.

galaxie 500

this ‘64 ford galaxie 500 was from the first night i visited the downey bob's big boy broiler show in march. it's owned by a very nice couple, who chatted with me for a few minutes. i talked to the wife, who was saving the parking space, while her husband fetched the car from the back lot. mentioned that i'd eventually post it on my flickr site.

saw them the other day, parked in about the same spot. i know they've been patiently waiting to see their car here. so i figured i should go see what it looked like. turned out all right. even got the burger boy sign in there. hope you two like it :)

my older brother had a ‘66 galaxie 500 when he was in high school. fixed it up nice. can't remember whether he sold it or my sister crashed it. i'll have to ask.

Update on 2010-04-20 01:22 by kathy

so i asked my mom about my brother's galaxie. she said he'd seen the battered car sitting in an old neighbor's driveway forever, and finally got up the nerve to ask about it. the old man sold it to him for $1. he spent a year fixing it up, even painting it himself - i remember helping him sand it. he drove it for about a year and sold it to my sister's friend when he was going away to college. she promptly went out and crashed it in a ditch. so much for that.

ford flambé

ok, it was pretty, but a little over the top for a classic. but it made a nice picture. really didn't need to do much to it - really was this color. a real "look at me, look at me" car.

holy hot rod batman!

this was the last picture i took that night. it was getting cold, and people had already started leaving. the owner of this car seemed very interested in what i was doing, how i was doing it, and even knew what bracketing was. he says about the only original thing on this is the 1927 ford radiator, but it's still such a cool car.  i think it is one of the more interesting shots, even with the lens flares from the overhead lighting. anyway, he's my first paying customer - he wants a print!