"What MG Actually Stands For - 1951 MG TD"
Raleigh, NC - May 2009 (Click to embiggen)
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Welcome To Machines #11
"Ford Model-T (Model Year Unknown)"
Winston Salem, NC - September 2009 (Click to embiggen)
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Thematic Photographic 82: "2009 - The Year that Was" v.1.0 - Snow! Twice! With Special Guests, Helga the Amazon She-Hawk and Litle GTO
This week Thematic Photographic takes a look back at 2009 in pictures. If it was important to you, it's important to us. So show us what you saw in the year gone by.These weren't events of national or world importance, they were of photographic significance -- to me anyway.It began in mid January when a once-crippled and rehabilitated female red tailed hawk named Helga was released into the wild at the local riding stable where she was found with a badly broken wing. The Triangle Land Conservancy contacted me about using a couple of my shots form the release in their newsletter, which I thought was pretty cool. they were supposed to send me a couple of copies when it came out, but either they forgot or they didn't use the work after all. Either way I never heard any more from them and I kept forgetting to contact them about it.Yes, Virginia, it does occasionally snow in Raleigh, NC. In Inauguration years. The last time anything frozen fell out of the sky here was the day before the Second Coronation of Bush The Younger. That storm was a metaphor for that election in a way. An innocent looking inch or so of snow because of a freakish temperature pattern turned to a half-inch of sheer ice that paralyzed the entire city. It was as insidious as it was perilous because it didn't appear that it would amount to anything problematic, but before it was over there were tales of motorists spending the night in their cars on the Interstate and children spending the night at their schools because the buses couldn't navigate the snarl.Neither of the snows of 2009 held such peril for us, both of them practically melting before the echoes of "Ain't it pretty" faded. This shot was one I took at about 2:00 AM March 2, from my front porch. I wanted to be sure to document the event in case it was over by the time I got up.Once the snow had melted, the thunder started. On hand at this first of two car shows I shot in 2009 were no fewer than three pristine 1967 vintage Pontiac GTO's. (There may have been more than three, I got there late... as usual.)Update: Apparently TLC has a subscription to my feed and nobody realized I hadn't gotten copies of their May-June newsletter (with the photos of Helga) until this post surfaced in someone's reader. So there are two copies on the way now. The power of G**gle in evidence again, eh?
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Welcome To Machines #8
"British Racing Green - 1967 Austin Healy 3000 Mk III"
Raleigh, NC - May 2009 (Click to embiggen)
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Thematic Photographic 76: "Orange" v.5.0 - Fast, Hot Delivery
"Wonder If They Carry Spare Parts For the Truck Too..."
Raleigh, NC - February 2009 (Click to embiggen)
Hosted by Written Inc.You've seen this truck before most likely. It's been featured in other "Orange" themes here since its debut in February of this year. And a few other non-color related themes too. This is the working delivery truck for Seaboard Ace Hardware in Seaboard Station. It's a 1942 Ford delivery van, not quite "flawlessly restored", but very close. I can't say about the drivetrain, but the body and trim appears to be original or at least a faithful reproduction. I do know that stumbling upon it on a frosty February morning quite by accident brought forth a cry of delight. (Okay, fine, so I squealed like a girl. You wanna make something of it?)
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Single Lens Reflex #7: "74 Years and Counting"
"1960 Morgan 4/4 Roadster - Hand Crafted to Order since 1936"
Raleigh, NC - May 2009 (Click to embiggen)
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Thematic Photographic 74: "Red" v.2.0 - Red Healy
"Austin Healy 3000 (model year unknown)"
Raleigh, NC - May 2009 (Click to embiggen)
Hosted by Written Inc.Between editing the photos from a shoot I did yesterday for InterAct of Wake County and trying to get the last editing done on my BlogBlast for Peace post I sort of forgot that I didn't have Thematic v. 74.2 done yet. Fortunately, the car show I attended last May had a host of bright red vintage British sports cars including this Austin Healy 3000. Not that it really needed it, but it appeared that one owner or another of this particular specimen had made a few alterations to the original along the way. The most apparent changes were the fender flares that covered the wider-than-stock tires. Not being fluent in Austin Healy engine compartments, I couldn't tell if there had been mods to the power plant (though the air induction system didn't look stock), but the top and interior appeared to be aftermarket/custom as well. I've always been torn when it comes to customizing a car like this. There just seems something inherently wrong about it. But there's no question that this was still a pristine automobile. And no question about its redness either.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Image is Everything #5: Gran Turismo Omologato
"What 'GTO' Actually Means"
Raleigh, NC - March 2009 (Click to Embiggen)
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