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Citroën DS
I had got in my car and started it up and switched the headlights on ready to head home when I saw this in front of me. It was actually a fender detail that prompted me to pull the camera out, but when I checked it over I decided this was the best shot. My aim in this shot was to capture a scene that presented itself to me unbidden - a beautifully designed car in a particularly fortunate light.
My daughter had fun taking this long-exposure shot. She set up her camera in the middle of a lonely road. Once she had started the exposure I drove past her and off into the night. (We were on a dead-end road where we could be sure that no other car would sneak up on us from behind.)
The rear of the California Zephyr as it passes Honsdale Station. The consist is looking far healthier than some of Amtrak's other Superliner trains (Ie. the Capitole Limited at just 3-4 cars and the Texas Eagle at 5 cars).
Copyright Robert W. Dickinson. Unauthorized use of this image without my express permission is a violation of copyright law.
Taken at the Pavilions Car Show in Scottsdale, Arizona, in July 2021. This visit was the first time back for me since they FINALLY(!!!!) started up the car show again in late May 2021 following the pandemic-caused shutdown of the show.
Shot with a Canon 70D and Canon 17-55mm f2.8 IS USM lens with circular polarizer.
In glorious late afternoon light 66009 heads north through the Lune Gorge with a well loaded 4S38 1416 Seaforth-Mossend. It was running around 30 mins late having been stopped at Carnforth whilst the driver attended to a reportedly unlit tail lamp. Good news for the small group of photographers present as it allowed the front of the loco to be fully lit, less so for the passengers on the Pendolino held up behind it.
1956 Chevrolet Corvette tail light detail as seen at the O'Reilly Auto Parts customer appreciation day cruise.
This piece began fairly straightforward. Somewhere along the yellow brick road, I missed a turn. That’s when things started to get spookier and more complicated.
So here is the challenge (for anyone) feeling spunky. Identify the make, model and year of this car based on what is being shown here - a tail light, of course. For those familiar with the (The) Appleman, and his previous contests, you probably have already guessed there is a big prize awaiting the winner………… Try to contain your excitement and beware that the challenge question contains a “clinker”.
Hope ya’all enjoy……………
I decided to try some vintage glass, specifically a mid 1960s Pentax Super Takumar 50mm 1:1.4 (a so-called radioactive lense) on my Olympus OM-D EM-5 via a simple adapter to see how it shaped up in the digital world. To be blunt, it is not as sharp as it seemed especially wide open in the film days. But it was fun to use wide open to mess around with shallow depth-of-field. It will likely be fun to try as a portrait lense. Anyway, I pointed it at a taillight on a parked car and deliberately found an angle that yield an abstract image featuring red, grey/silver and black diagonals. And thus this image is a Red Rule shot. - JW
Date Taken: 2021-03-27
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Olympus OM-D EM-5 fitted with an adapted M42 Pentax Super Takumar 50mm 1:1.4 (yes, the so-called radioactive one), Intelligent Auto mode, Auto WB, Matrix metering, ISO200, f/1.4, 1/3200 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Olympus RAW/ORF source file: set final image width to be 8000px, in the Color Management section use camera Standard and then change the Working Profile to ‘WideGamut’ and adjust the tone curve response to Custom with Gamma -1.594 and Slope to 3.58 and then set Output Profile to RTv4sRGB ( and the Output Profile to RTv4Wide, slightly boost Contrast as well as Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, apply noise reduction, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the Contrast/Brightness tool to slightly boost contrast, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 2048 wide for posting online, sharpen slightly, save.