Nostalgia Envisioned before it's Time
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Nostalgia Envisioned before it's Time

So I had a frame left on my camera when I was testing some film that had expired in 1947, I had used this roll to do comparison images just to have something to compare the scene too if the film came out horribly (which it did but that was expected) when I was thinking about the old cars and street shots we look at now and think how cool they look, and I thought it must have kind of been a boring shot at the time, so here's my boring shot of my car (the Saab) at a regular commuter gas station. Someday when I'm old, people will be fascinated with this image of people who actually put combustible liquid into their cars to propel them, "what a crazy idea, who would do that?" they will say. And before they say that, in a less far away time, they will say "OMG look how CHEAP those prices are!" ($3.59/gallon). Hence the title. Like a fine wine I hope this image will mature and become amazing as time passes.
Location
Milford, CT, USA
Equipment Used
Mamiya 7 II, 65mm Lens OR 43mm Lens I can't recall which I used.
Exposure
1/30th-ish @f/8 to f/11ish??
Film & Developer
Tri-X400 @400 in DD-X
Paper & Developer
EpsonScan - no exposure adjustment
Is this print for sale?
  1. Yes
I really, really like this. Beautiful banality. A faceless someone getting into, or out of, their car. A perfectly centered U-Haul trailer without a visible tow. Half of a cheap "MOTEL" sign. Crooked power poles. And a nondescript vanishing point roof to frame everything. All compressed into the middle third of the frame with an utterly meaningless, yet instantly recognzable, oversized foreground and a featureless, depressingly overcast sky as background.

If this isn't a perfect description of the 99%, I don't know what is...
 
Ken Nadvornick said:
I really, really like this. Beautiful banality. A faceless someone getting into, or out of, their car. A perfectly centered U-Haul trailer without a visible tow. Half of a cheap "MOTEL" sign. Crooked power poles. And a nondescript vanishing point roof to frame everything. All compressed into the middle third of the frame with an utterly meaningless, yet instantly recognzable, oversized foreground and a featureless, depressingly overcast sky as background.If this isn't a perfect description of the 99%, I don't know what is...
Thanks Ken! I actually agree with the 99% part for sure. I wanted the image to be sort of removed that's why it's so pulled back. I felt that any closer and I became part of the scene instead of a viewer. I certainly included the motel sign in there, but the power lines were luck :smile: the guy in the car was on purpose, but looking now it tells me I was probably at 1/60 not 1/30 or he would probably be blurrier, of course he is old, perhaps he's just slow :wink:
 
Quite right, I like your idea and title. We just don't shoot the everyday so much now, and this is a good one.
 

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