I know what you mean. Regardless, it was a beautiful machine in any colour and configuration.

Thanks, Don. Appreciate your comment.

All red or did it have a white top? 2 or 4 door?

I wonder what today's kids will be mulling over as the "good ol' days" when they are our age? It's a difficult thing to imagine.

I agree - a little lighter probably would be better - especially if your screen is "normal". I think mine is a little bright because when I see the images I post on my wife's laptop they seem to me to be a mite on the dark side.

Thanks for your advice and your comments, I appreciate the critique.

Thanks Mark, Lotsa good ideas. However, as you may know, I rarely try for perfection as by the time it would take to achieve it my feeling for the subject would have been gone along with myself. I'll leave that kind of stuff up to you guys who care about it. My methodology is a kind of a "quick reaction" form of shooting. Where I think it might be helpful I will also use Topaz to varying degrees. In this case it helped create the feeling of the Bel Air logo on the steering column which I felt should be a kind of hazy memory sort of thing. I see and seek a different reality than so called "straight" photographers. The things you have mentioned would probably be of great value to that kind of photography.

However, I am happy to have your comments as they may be of value to other photographers.

I have never used a fish eye lens. Probably never will as I don't see in those terms.

Thanks for looking and commenting - much appreciated.

Is it just me, or do autos these days seem more a less the same. Impala - another great Chevy.

1929 Chevrolet Series AC International. My father owned one and crashed it to a heap in 1939. What a beautiful piece of machinery it was.

Thanks, Frank.

Not too sure ho to use the new site yet but I'll learn.

The Biscayne fostered a little jealousy on my part. It had better lines, in my opinion, than the Bel Air. It was one of those eras when an elegant style was important. I don't see it today. Maybe the Lincoln??? The Jaguar!

Thanks for your remark. Much appreciated.

I know about those reminiscences. Keeps me thinking about what there is left to do - if that makes any sense. This shot was taken at an auto museum in the upper Chicago burbs.

In 1959 I purchased my first car. A 1056 Chevrolet Bel Air, light blue paint job. What a lovely machine it was and just right for the pocket book of a poor man attending Millikin University on the G.I. Bill. I could have photographed the entire thing but I think depicting what I view each time I got into it would be a little different.

I think the spatial aspects have been handled fairly well. A slight touch of Topaz has been added for enhancement.

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Mark

Thanks for the clarification. As you may or may not know, I am no slouch when it comes to creating works of artistic merit. When I post something of this nature it's not due to a lack of skill or knowledge. Photography is, however, so much more than that. If you are knowledgeable of the contemporary world of art you are aware that so called "ordinary"
photographs seem to be the rule of the day - not the exception: i.e., Gursky's Rhine II - which recently sold at auction for $4.3 million.

Jim

Hiya Mark.

Liked your picture of light. Nice job.

As far as this piece is concerned I realize it's not up to my standards of fine art photography either. It is a snapshot and not a bit above the ordinary.

I very seldom visit this monument. I lost several close friends in the Korean Police action while attached to the 23rd regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division from the 30th medical group as a medic. A temporary assignment. After all these years it's still painful.

I was actually at this location trying to photograph the Vietnam memorial which is about a hundred yards to the north. I noticed these kids offloading from several school buses and congregating around the several monuments at the cemetery. This was one of the shots. It was not my intention to make anything pretty from this monument. It is what it is. It was posted not on artistic merit - it was never intended as such.

Thanks for you perceptive comments and I do understand where you are coming from.

Jim

Thanks for the compliment Billy. Let's hope we no longer try the folly of imposition of the "American Way."