Posts in Category: cars
Wet Fall Morning
Before dawn on Friday, we had enough rain to give everything a good wetting…and to bring a lot of leaves down. When I opened the back door to the deck my first thought was, “Ah, this is fall!” It felt like fall, smelled like fall, looked like fall. But of course, it was only a wet fall morning…late fall at that…but there is a lot of atmosphere to a wet morning in late fall…a lot of memories to key…a touch, at may age, of definite nostalgia. I went back inside for a glass of cider 🙂
But then I got the camera and wet back out to see what I might find to capture the mood. This is an odd image for me. I realize that I rarely take pics, or a least share, pics of man-made objects…and cars least of all. I am not a car guy. As long as it runs reliably and is not actually embarrassingly dirty, I am fine with it. Just a car. But I could not resist the deposit of wet leaves on the windshield. That is just so fall! So wet morning fall.
Samsung Smart Camera WB800F in Rich Tone mode. Processed in Snapseed on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014.
And here, for you traditionalists, is a more typical wet fall morning shot. Same camera and settings.
6/15/2011: Cars as Art
One of our rainy day activities in Acadia National Park this week was a visit to the Seal Cove Auto Museum. I am not a car guy in the normal sense of the word. I notice fancy cars but I don’t lust after them (or not much anyway :). Still, I can’t imagine anyone with an eye for shape and color and texture and light not finding a lot to interest them in a world class collection of antique automobiles. What men made right there at the moment when the hand crafted carriage era and the beginnings of the industrial revolution overlapped are nothing less than works of art. At Seal Cove you can see examples of some of the most ornate restored to original glory. They even have bicycles and motorcycles too. What a feast of color and form and function!
Of course, to do any of these machines justice, you would have to get them out of the museum to a place with better light and space to frame them. These are just snapshots…using the ambient lighting, no flash…where something caught my eye as we toured the collection. Just to give you a flavor of the place.
Nikon Coolpix P500 at various settings from 23mm wide angle equivalent field of view to moderate tele at 76mm. Program with Active D-Lighting and Vivid Image Optimization. Processed in Lightroom for Clarity and Sharpness.