1954 chevy bel air
sorry, this will be brief. it's late, and i gotta an hour to drive before bed.
went to dino's bomb squad's blessing of the bombs show. never been. i'll go again. everything i like, in one place.
heard it's usually a bigger show, but there was plenty to appreciate.
i'll post this shot, since it was the last one i took for the day. yay for the clouds—probably scared some people away, but it didn't rain anyway.
1953 chevrolet bel air
posting another tonight. i've been away from home too many days. catching up with things.
another from last weeks mini-show at the vfw. such a small show, i felt like i'd crashed a party. someone posted a flyer, so i just took them up on it, and showed up.
i liked the cars, that there weren't lots of people in front of the cars. i think i lot of them were inside, enjoying the freshly barbequed meal being sold at the door. i wasn't hungry, so i didn't buy one.
i'm pretty sure i've seen this chevy somewhere. the sun going down, is whacking the color with a blanket of yellow. throws it off a bit.
hell if i was going to work a third weekend in a row. though, with the workload waiting, i sometimes find it hard to not think about trying to get ahead of deadlines, without being interrupted. it's hard to stop thinking about the work. gotta remember there is a life outside the office.
i gotta get back to weekly car shows, spending time with my better half, and trying to drop a few pounds. i sit on my ass all day in traffic, at the office, in the evening. i need to make some changes. just don't know what.
so shine your cars, or not. i'm in the mood to shoot.
saw this car between the buildings at the super cruise this past february. it's sort of a POS, but wonderfully full of character. the texture in the morning light is fun. just had to do extreme angles, to keep the cars parked right up next to it out of the picture. hate when they're clumped so close together.
rain is supposed to stay away until drive time monday. great. there are like, four car shows tomorrow, that i'd be perfectly happy going to any one of them. either i pick one, and spend most of the time there, or flit from show to show...the weather is too perfect to not be able to stay out all day. not too hot, not too cold.
i'll end up at my mom's for the night, working my way south. my kid is in town, so i should see if she's there or out with her friends.
work can wait til monday. so much work. i gotta get my request in for vacation time, for time off to go to some more distant car shows too. i want to travel more, got the bug again. any recommendations?
ever feel like you've been running non-stop for days on end? not sustainable, but i'm not seeing any relief in sight.
planning on getting home tomorrow--been gone since monday. rain will probably ruin any aspirations for a car show or two this weekend.
i'm just gonna post this for now, as i gotta get at least a few hours of sleep, before getting up and doing it all over again.
supposed to rain again tonight. guess i'll head to my mom's house for a couple of days. also, my daughter will be flying in mid-week. i'm already overloaded with work for the next couple of weeks, so i should be insane by next weekend.
posting one from the fairgrounds, since i didn't go to the swap meet today. true, it was raining at five in the morning, but it cleared up by lunchtime.
just love the curves on the back ends of fleetlines. bridgetown is always found here, along the bleachers. like they must always be first in line at the gates, at five in the morning. actually earlier. i get there at five and they're already in place, at least a few, staking out the row.
we just got back from a walk uptown. passed the whittier community association office, where they post flyers for all the local activities going on, up on their windows.
this year, the annual uptown car show has been moved up from mid august to june fourth.
in a normal world, i'd have said that's great, since it's always hotter than hell in august. but it's not perfect, and my world has been a bit of a crazy whirlwind lately. so, checking my calendar, i've just noticed that i have to catch a train to san diego that same day. perfect.
i can make it work, though, since the show is physically, just up the street. i'll just have to be sure to be all packed and ready to go the night before.
we're usually up and out by five-thirty in the morning anyway. organizers are up and telling vendors where to set up, and cars are stuck in purgatory, i mean, staging.
we'll just get up and out, shoot the cars for a few hours, as usual, but then i'll go home, download the pictures, and head to the station, instead of back to the show. just sucks that i won't be able to do anything with them until i get back a week later.
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shot this car before, at a different show, from the back end. even sold the file for cheap, to an unnamed shop not too far away, with their idea of putting it on tshirts. perhaps they didn't have a shop to do it, or the cost prevented it.
i suspect, the more likely scenario is that they just gave the owner a nice print of the car. enjoy, i guess.
it has become increasingly clear, that i can't take a day off without working enough overtime to equal two or three regular days. and still, today, i've logged in, and worked on one job. over the weekend, i will have to go to the office, probably, to rework another job before monday. that one deals with a giant spreadsheet, that i'd rather work on at my desk, with two screens. i have two screens at home, but the remote connection won't let me use a second one. so stupid.
monday will start another week from hell. we'll be down one designer, since it's spring break for his kid. then the following week, the other designer will take off for three plus weeks, for her annual trip to the other side of the world.
going to rain this weekend. sucks, since sunday is the swap meet at pomona. camera is waterproof, but not the lenses, so blows that idea out of the water.
spring is getting closer, so more shows are being added to my dance card. looking forward to it. please let me know if there's anything interesting not already on my list to the right. send me an email. or hand a flyer to my better half—that works too.
motorcycle from the little show at the vfw. sometimes i just shoot them. a different challenge, to get a decent angle, without chopping the handlebars out of the picture.
1941 pontiac
i ended up working all weekend. traded it for having next friday off. and that's kinda iffy now...still have deadlines, and a few more added on top of the ones i knew about.
i couldn't connect to the office computer on saturday, so had to skip the whittier community show, and drive an hour to the office to get things done. had the place to myself, got a lot done, but didn't quite finish, and called it a day after six pm.
sunday morning, someone posted a flyer about a show over at the vfw in industry. it wasn't set to start until after two.
so, because i was able to connect, i put in a couple of hours of work at home, then took a break, and got my better half to go with me to this show.
it was a really small parking lot. and the street next to it was full, so we had to go to a nearby neighborhood to park. ran across a busy street, and rolled in.
was happy to see a number of old cars, that i love to shoot, many i've seen before. this one, for instance, i'd shot at no less than four shows last year. and yet, i don't think i've ever posted it. the owner chatted with my better half, and shook my hand as well, so now is as good a time as any to put it up here.
gotta love an old pontiac, and the siren call of those chief hood ornaments...
1962 chevrolet impala
looking at my project for work. i don't want to do it, but i really should. will just hurt less on monday, if i get it out of the way today.
i could still make it to the car show. get my better half to drop me off. think we're going to walk uptown for bfast now, so maybe later...
impala from the new year's show at the dam. sparkly. caught my eye. one of the few low riders i shot that day. just love the details these guys add to the cars—really remarkable artistry. i think maybe this one is right on the cusp of doing too much of a good thing.
two hour drive home. wanted to go to frisco's, but i see they already got shut down on that one. damn. briefly considered heading to whittier blvd, or, just going uptown and waiting to see if anyone drives by the theatre.
nah, might to the whittier community car show in the morning, and i gotta get some sleep. not seeing any other show going on at the same time, or i'd probably go somewhere else for a change. also think i have to work all weekend to meet an arbitrary deadline, on a job that has been repeatedly pushed aside.
another car from last month at pomona. nice car, not overdone. almost thought it was a merc, but the chrome is all ford. nice chop job.