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There are two “fakey-do” cars in this photo. One is very easy to spot. The other? It might be a challenge.
Bonus points for naming the underlying/previous identity of the donor chassis/engine combos.
This photo taken at the “Crusin’ to Colby” car show in Everett, WA, specifically to show two fakes in one photo… no artistic composition intended. 😉
Long time readers are aware of my predilection for shooting Aston Martin bonnets. So here’s a curve ball for you. Can you name this car?
Think you’re good? Then name all four cars visible in this photo!
It’s time for another round of “Name That Car” with the engine being the only hint.
Know this one?
My 30-day Apple Aperture trial expired. I ended up deciding not to buy the software though. Why?
$199 seems steep for an application that runs like molasses on my fairly well-spec’ed machine; a MacBook Pro 2.53GHz with 4 GB of RAM. I like Aperture’s RAW editing features. Once I got the hang of them that is. But… damn this application is slow. This was with a library of less than 100 photos. I note that iPhoto bogs down once its library exceeds 5000 images. Aperture was dog slow right from the very first image.
Every once in a while I would see some moment of brilliance, and think I was falling in love with the software. Then it would smack me with a spinning cursor and drive me away. I would hope that a trial period would show you all the reasons to love a new product, but in this case it just drove me back to using iPhoto + Photoshop.
I’m open to being convinced otherwise, so feel free to chime in if you have a differing opinion.
This photo is something of a “happy accident”, as I did not intend to result in this sort of effect. I was shooting as I almost always do, hand-held and no flash, when the camera had this odd malfunction that resulted in this bizarre lighting. I kind of like the result.
The event was an informal get together of E-type owners on a January evening in San Francisco a few years back. I didn’t have my car there at the time, as I was in town on business.
See these two guys and their Mini? I’m going to be their Service Crew Manager for the 2011 Monte Carlo Historic Rally. Yes that rally, put on by the same people who host the F1 and WRC events in Monaco, L’Automobile Club de Monaco. These two Mad Englishmen, John Morrow and Bill Richards have asked me to join their team and help them win their class at the 2011 event.
My duties will be wrangling the service team, and making sure we’re in the right places, at the right times, with tires, tools and fuel (for both the Mini and the guys in the Mini!), and documenting the whole experience via photographs, video, and the written word.
John sent me an invitation a couple of weeks ago, and we have been engaged in an email Q&A session for a while to determine if I am the right guy for the position. We met for a few beers last night at a spot in Snohomish, halfway between his home in Bellevue, and mine in Arlington, and I agreed to join this band of lunatics. Wish us well.
I started off the “documentation” part of my duties with a few photographs:
More news coming soon.
I was out for a beer after work with a colleague earlier this week and was introduced to a friend of his. Turns out he’s also a “car guy” so we ended up going over to his place to see his project car. It is a late 60s Muscle Car, of a variety I had not seen in ages. It still has its original paint, a nice metallic dark green showing a wonderful patina that only time can provide. His garage was very dark, and I forgot my camera, sorry. We talked about taking a drive and I emailed him a list of driving events coming up, so hopefully I’ll see the car again and be able to photograph it.
This chance meeting reminded me that I don’t put up enough photographs of domestic cars, despite having plenty of them around, so today’s CPotD is an American car just for my domestic-leaning car-guy brethren. Can you identify it?