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A photo and a story
TonyCooper
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Weekend before last, my camera club had a field trip to a car show.
Seven members participated. I didn't go there at the same time as
the others because my grandsons had a baseball game in the morning.
I arrived several hours after the others.
As I was squatting to frame the grill of a 1937 Packard, I happened to
look down on the ground and saw two CF memory cards almost buried
in the grass. I picked them up and noticed they had the owner's last
name written on each.
The owner of the cards was a fellow member of the club who had not
been in that area for at least an hour, and suspected they fell out of
his bag when he was shooting the same car.
Of the hundreds of people at the show, what are the odds that one of
seven would lose something to be found by another member of the
group!
I don't like car shows because of the people and background problems
in shooting cars, but I did come up with this one:
Seven members participated. I didn't go there at the same time as
the others because my grandsons had a baseball game in the morning.
I arrived several hours after the others.
As I was squatting to frame the grill of a 1937 Packard, I happened to
look down on the ground and saw two CF memory cards almost buried
in the grass. I picked them up and noticed they had the owner's last
name written on each.
The owner of the cards was a fellow member of the club who had not
been in that area for at least an hour, and suspected they fell out of
his bag when he was shooting the same car.
Of the hundreds of people at the show, what are the odds that one of
seven would lose something to be found by another member of the
group!
I don't like car shows because of the people and background problems
in shooting cars, but I did come up with this one:
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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No Coincidence, No Story! Curious coincidences. Whats going on with em? Some pretty cool things
Since many feel the same about cars shows as you describe, I think the trick now falls to seeing differently or trying to incorporate problems in a successful way. This image speaks to that I think.
Its a neat shot nicely framed with the subjects attributes as they stand. Can't say that I have seen
a take like this one done just so. Good job.
Good story for it Tony
would stand out no matter what. At the average car show, though, what we see
are some interesting cars surrounded by distractions.
When I shoot vehicles, I generally go for the old and rusted without a surrounding
phalanx of people and without signs in the windows.
I go on the club outings, though, for the social aspect.
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That & junk on the seat would be my major complaints at car shows.
BTW, nice capture Tony.
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