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I think this shot is kind of beautiful.
I thought it when I shot it and I think it now when I’m staring at it.
Especially considering that I just captured it by chance and by accident. My remote doesn’t work (actually it’s never worked haha), so I just kept pressing the timer down and running across the street. Except I wasn’t going for the light streak – it just kind of happened by accident.
I sat next to this Beetle because I always wanted one when I was younger. Talk about fucking cockroaches – old beetles still maintain a pretty regular presence on the roads of California.
What a fucking history this car has. Started off as the “peoples car” in Germany during WWII, then became an icon in the United States for hippies and everyday people alike in the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. You still see random ass people driving these cars around.
Part of me kind of always wanted to buy an old Volkswagen bus and live in it and drive around America like a road rogue. I swear to god if I knew anything about cars I’d buy one just to work on it and drive it around.
But alas I can’t work on cars worth a damn. There are a lot of things I’m good at as far as being a “man” goes – but working on cars isn’t one of them. I don’t even know how to change my own oil. It’s kind of pathetic.
Oh – and I can’t tie a tie. Swear to god.
And I loathe putting shit together. Like buying a cabinet or a new piece of furniture or a bike and putting it together? I couldn’t think of something more I’d rather NOT do more.
The shot at hand? Me chilling next to a Beetle with a random car passing by providing a rainbow in front of me. One of the best light streaks I’ve ever captured.
Location: Chestnut St; Alameda, California (about 10 blocks from my apartment)
Taken: August 21st, 2009
Posted August 30th, 2009
Album of the Day: Pink Moon by Nick Drake
2021 Annual No-Show Air-Cooled VW & Vintage Bicycle Gathering - Kaysville, Utah
Camera: Yashica Mat-124 G (1970 - 1986)
Film: CineStill BWXX (Double-X)
Process: CineStill DF96 Monobath (3 Min @ 26° C)
Scanner: Epson V700 Photo
2024 Wasatch Classic VW Car Show - Provo, Utah
Camera: Nikon FA (1983 - 1988)
Film: Fuji Velvia 100
Process: TheDarkRoom.com
2024 Wasatch Classic VW Car Show - Provo, Utah
Camera: Nikon FA (1983 - 1988)
Film: Fuji Velvia 100
Process: TheDarkRoom.com
2021 Annual No-Show Air-Cooled VW & Vintage Bicycle Gathering - Kaysville, Utah
Camera: Yashica Mat-124 G (1970 - 1986)
Film: CineStill BWXX (Double-X)
Process: CineStill DF96 Monobath (3 Min @ 26° C)
Scanner: Epson V700 Photo
Poor Herbie, its like one of those "after they were famous" things like 'what Herbie did next' ...After Fame and Fortune...
Herbie drove around beeping at people who waved as he passed, eventually this wore thin and he began guzzlin' gas until know one recognized him anymore. In the end, his headlights fell off and his doors wont shut...and now he sits here in a daze dreamin' of the good times and watching the clouds fly by. :(
Thanks Gareth for the description!
=)
13th Annual No Show - Kaysville, Utah.
Camera: Yashica Mat-124 G (1970 - 1986).
Film: Kodak Verichrome Pan (Expired 9/1989).
Process: Kodak D76 (1+1) 10:00 Min @ 20°.
2024 Wasatch Classic VW Car Show - Provo, Utah
Camera: Nikon FA (1983 - 1988)
Film: Fuji Velvia 100
Process: TheDarkRoom.com
2024 Wasatch Classic VW Car Show - Provo, Utah
Camera: Nikon FA (1983 - 1988)
Film: Fuji Velvia 100
Process: TheDarkRoom.com
2019 Old Volks Show
Driving by last Saturday and seeing the 2020 show reminded me of ones from last year.
Slug Bug!
Camera: Leica M3 (1959).
Film: Kodak Color Plus 200.
Process: A very exhausted CineStill C41 Kit.
Utah Film Photography
2021 Annual No-Show Air-Cooled VW & Vintage Bicycle Gathering - Kaysville, Utah
Camera: Yashica Mat-124 G (1970 - 1986)
Film: CineStill BWXX (Double-X)
Process: CineStill DF96 Monobath (3 Min @ 26° C)
Scanner: Epson V700 Photo
Camera: Olympus OM-1N MD (1979)
Film: Brother Brigham's Polygamy Panchromatic 400
Process: Cinestill DF96 Monobath (3 Min @ 26° C)
Scanner: Epson V700 Photo
So I'm walking along minding my own business. . . Look left and BLAM! There it was. Like a set out of a movie. Just sat there screaming at me.. "Take my picture!"
If you can think of any tags that relate to Beetle cars... feel free to add.
2024 Wasatch Classic VW Car Show - Provo, Utah
Camera: Nikon FA (1983 - 1988)
Film: Fuji Velvia 100
Process: TheDarkRoom.com
Pentax 645Nii // 75mm // Kodak Lumiere (expired 1993)
Oh the light meter on this Pentax 645 is so perfect.
A VW I found by the side of the road back in 2011 and although it sure looks a bit more faded, has not changed much.
My son in law took me to a bug show. He was showing me all great old cars. I was standing there and I owned several models, and they were "new" at the time. Driving to the beach every day and enjoy the surf was so fun in these. Chicks loved them but gotta admit that making out in a bug was really hard.
I hope I have aged as well as these great cars. Most of them here are from the 1960s with the bug in the foreground a 1968.
Fun to view "LARGE".
If you want to know how to do this technique (and others) see "how to make objects appear toy-like in
2021 Annual No-Show Air-Cooled VW & Vintage Bicycle Gathering - Kaysville, Utah
Camera: Yashica Mat-124 G (1970 - 1986)
Film: CineStill BWXX (Double-X)
Process: CineStill DF96 Monobath (3 Min @ 26° C)
Scanner: Epson V700 Photo
2024 Wasatch Classic VW Car Show - Provo, Utah
Camera: Nikon FA (1983 - 1988)
Film: Fuji Velvia 100
Process: TheDarkRoom.com
2024 Wasatch Classic VW Car Show - Provo, Utah
Camera: Nikon FA (1983 - 1988)
Film: Fuji Velvia 100
Process: TheDarkRoom.com
2019 Old Volks Show
Driving by last Saturday and seeing the 2020 show reminded me of ones from last year.
Art by @tigersasha
Who didn't ever play slug bug as a kid? This vintage VW was on display at the weekly Olathe Cruise hosted by Michael Day at the VFW on Dennis St. A great looking ride that brought back some good memories.
2021 Annual No-Show Air-Cooled VW & Vintage Bicycle Gathering - Kaysville, Utah
Camera: Yashica Mat-124 G (1970 - 1986)
Film: CineStill BWXX (Double-X)
Process: CineStill DF96 Monobath (3 Min @ 26° C)
Scanner: Epson V700 Photo
Camera: Yashica Mat-124 G (1970 - 1986)
Film: Kosmo Foto Mono 100
Process: FPP-110 (1+31) 7 Min @ 68°
Scanner: Epson V600 Photo
Utah Film Photography
The sleepy looking 1970 Beetle Bug participate in the 2020 Basehor-Linwood High School Car Show. The VW has an interesting history and origin that involved an evil dictator.
The original concept behind the first Volkswagen, the company, and its name is the notion of a people’s car – a car affordable and practical enough for common people to own. Hence the name, which is literally "people's car" in German, pronounced [ˈfɔlksˌvaːɡn̩]. Although the Volkswagen Beetle was mainly the brainchild of Ferdinand Porsche and Adolf Hitler, the idea of a "people's car" is much older than Nazism and has existed since the mass-production of cars was introduced. In fact, Béla Barényi was able to prove in court in 1953 that Porsche's patents were Barényi's ideas, and therefore Barényi has since been credited with first conceiving the original design for this car in 1925.
This was noted on the Mercedes-Benz website, including Barényi's original technical drawing, dated five years before Ferdinand Porsche claimed to have made his initial version. Barényi also successfully sued Volkswagen for copyright infringement in 1955, whereby his contribution to the creation of the VW Type 1 was legally acknowledged.
Contrary to the situation in the United States, where the Ford Model T had become the first car to motorize the masses, contributing to household car ownership of about 33% in 1920 and some 46% in 1930, in the early 1930s, the German auto industry was still mostly limited to luxury models, and few Germans could afford anything more than a motorcycle: one German out of 50 owned a car.
In April 1934, Hitler gave the order to Porsche to develop a Volkswagen. The epithet Volks- literally, "people's-" had been applied to other Nazi-sponsored consumer goods as well, such as the Volksempfänger("people's radio").
In May 1934, at a meeting at Berlin's Kaiserhof Hotel, Hitler insisted on a basic vehicle that could transport two adults and three children at 100 km/h (62 mph) while not using more than 7 litres of fuel per 100 km (32 mpg US/39 mpg UK). The engine had to be powerful enough for sustained cruising on Germany's Autobahnen. Everything had to be designed to ensure parts could be quickly and inexpensively exchanged. The engine had to be air-cooled because, as Hitler explained, not every country doctor had his own garage. (Ethylene glycol antifreeze was only just beginning to be used in high-performance liquid-cooled aircraft engines. In general, water in radiators would freeze unless the vehicle was kept in a heated building overnight or drained and refilled each morning.)
The "People's Car" would be available to citizens of Germany through a savings scheme, or Sparkarte(savings booklet), at 990 Reichsmark, about the price of a small motorcycle. (The average weekly income was then around 32RM.)
In 1970, a new "L" (Luxus) Package was introduced including, among other items, twin map pockets, dual rear ashtrays, full carpeting, a passenger-side visor vanity mirror, and rubber bumper moldings. The optional 1500 cc engine now came with an engine lid having two rows of cooling louvers, while the convertible's engine lid gained two additional sets for a total of four. For North America, the 1500 cc engine was enlarged to 1600 cc engine and produced 57 hp (43 kW; 58 PS)
2021 Annual No-Show Air-Cooled VW & Vintage Bicycle Gathering - Kaysville, Utah
Camera: Yashica Mat-124 G (1970 - 1986)
Film: CineStill BWXX (Double-X)
Process: CineStill DF96 Monobath (3 Min @ 26° C)
Scanner: Epson V700 Photo
This 1965 VW Rat Bug appeared at the 2019 Back to the Bricks Car Show held on the beautiful Town Square of Baldwin City, Kansas. The viaduct is in the Kansas City Missouri near the West Bottoms area.
Sometimes I get bored with just having ten fingernails that all look alike....so I paint them all different. They may not last very long before they start chipping, 3 days tops, but for those three days I have ten bright little fingers to look at and cheer me up. Each little picture represents one of my many favorite things.