The end of Day Two of the Colorado Grand back in 2005, saw all the cars collected in one spot behind a hotel. I wandered around that parking lot and shot probably 200 photographs. It was in a lot of ways, overstimulating. I look at my pictures now and think… “I should have shot that car a different way” or whatever. In reality I had maybe 30 minutes of good light, and 3 hours worth of subject matter to capture! A few gems were uncovered however, this being one of them.
It is a race-prepped and British Racing Green Jaguar XK-120, with a louvered bonnet. I have a few photos of it, from several different angles. I love how this one is abstracted to the point of near cubism… with the peek of car-porn through the louvers, the refelected sky and building, the dust-drops on the paint, and of course Sir William’s curvaceous panels… all at different depths and layers. It all adds up to a nice image.