"Weathered wonders": photos of abandoned classics

[ifcar]

The rusting Plymouth Fury sits behind a house off Route 140 in northern Carroll County, Md. Its paint faded and peeled years ago, but the chrome on its tail fin still gleams like new.

Marc Weinberg photographed that Plymouth and dozens more  "weathered wonders": once-gorgeous classics that are now ignored or forgotten, rotting away in scrapyards or back yards...

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[S204STi]

Reminds me of a car graveyard I read about in C/D back in the day... some guy in california just collects old cars and lets them rot on his property.

Makes nice still life art I suppose.

[Rupert]

Neat. I think it would be a fun project to look at old maps of national forests, etc., and go to all of the places that had some kind of human-built thing to take photos. Mines, lookouts, etc. There are often a lot of different things like that marked on maps.

[cawimmer430]

The pictures aren't bad but they are so few of them. Only 8. 

[ifcar]

The pictures aren't bad but they are so few of them. Only 8. 

I linked to more.

[cawimmer430]

I linked to more.

Will check it out later!

[JWC]

Well, I learned I don't charge enough for my work.

There is a "homestead" not far from where I live that I want to photograph.  About twenty or twenty-five Corvairs.  Coupes, sedans, convertibles, vans, Spyders etc....all rusting away.  The old man will not sell them and hasn't driven a single one since each was bought and parked in the back yard.  I remember this guy buying Corvairs when I was a teenager...back in the early seventies.

[giant_mtb]

Hm, a bunch of strangely colored, HDR photos of rusty cars.  Cool.

[ifcar]

Well, I learned I don't charge enough for my work.

Just because he charges that doesn't mean he sells any. It's not his day job.

[Soup DeVille]

Hm, a bunch of strangely colored, HDR photos of rusty cars.  Cool.

Another reason right there why I lost interest in photography.

Anything that looks well done is assumed to have been digitally tweaked.

[giant_mtb]

Another reason right there why I lost interest in photography.

Anything that looks well done is assumed to have been digitally tweaked.

...did you not look at the pictures, or what?

[JWC]

Just because he charges that doesn't mean he sells any. It's not his day job.

If it isn't his day job, he has no business asking that much....well, in my opinion.   I know about a bunch of photographers who would disagree.    They ain't selling anything either.

[Soup DeVille]

...did you not look at the pictures, or what?

I did, yes.

I have pictures that I've taken myself on print, B/W and slide film that have never been within three feet of a computer that could match or exceed that dynamic range and have a brighter color palette than those.

Everybody acts like a picture that doesn't look like it was shot with drugstore grade film and a Kodak 110 must be digitally manipulated.

[Soup DeVille]

If it isn't his day job, he has no business asking that much....well, in my opinion.   I know about a bunch of photographers who would disagree.    They ain't selling anything either.

It does seem to be his day job; at least according to his website,. Just not the art stuff, it looks like he's a standard protrait and wedding shooter most of the time.

[ifcar]

It does seem to be his day job; at least according to his website,. Just not the art stuff, it looks like he's a standard protrait and wedding shooter most of the time.

His day job is retirement benefits. He does photography on the side.

[Soup DeVille]

His day job is retirement benefits. He does photography on the side.

Well, his day job probably doesn't take up the whole day then.

[ifcar]

Well, his day job probably doesn't take up the whole day then.

What I mean is that he doesn't depend on photography as his income, so he doesn't need to worry about high sales.

[2o6]

...did you not look at the pictures, or what?

People did photograph before photoshop, y'know and achieved the same effects as the ones seen in this picture.

[JWC]

What I mean is that he doesn't depend on photography as his income, so he doesn't need to worry about high sales.

I wonder if he has to even worry about sales.

[JWC]

People did photograph before photoshop, y'know and achieved the same effects as the ones seen in this picture.

It was a lot more time consuming and probably worth what the artist charged. 

[Soup DeVille]

It was a lot more time consuming and probably worth what the artist charged. 

Which is why I've lost interest in it.

There's no point in spending half a day trying to get the perfect shot, and a day in the darkroom only to have the first a-hole who sees it go "Hey, I can do that on Photoshop in about 3 minutes."

[JWC]

Which is why I've lost interest in it.

There's no point in spending half a day trying to get the perfect shot, and a day in the darkroom only to have the first a-hole who sees it go "Hey, I can do that on Photoshop in about 3 minutes."

So true, so true.

[JWC]

Speaking of photography I need to get to bed.  I've got a high school student that I'm a mentor for, showing up tomorrow morning at 8am.  First friggin' beautiful, warm, weekend I have to work on my VW's and I'm with this kid doing landscapes for his senior project.

[Soup DeVille]

Speaking of photography I need to get to bed.  I've got a high school student that I'm a mentor for, showing up tomorrow morning at 8am.  First friggin' beautiful, warm, weekend I have to work on my VW's and I'm with this kid doing landscapes for his senior project.

At least tell me you're using a view camera.