Nothing Fancy

The day started by getting ready to take a day trip up to Guffey, CO, to check out a car show and listen to a band called “Foggiest Notion”.

Once we arrived in Guffey and got the vehicles parked we walked around and looked at the cars that were in the car show. There were probably about 20 – 25 cars on display. While I was photographing some of the cars my wife Jamie and her mom Regina directed me towards a car they were sitting near. They had asked me if I had read the small story about the car that was posted in the rear driver side window. I told them I had not. I went ahead and took some pictures of the Ford Model A. Not sure what year this car was. The car car was nothing fancy. To me this car looked like an old barn find. I went around to the side of the car that had a small bit of history about the car on a sheet of paper in the rear driver side window.

The paper read:
“This car was put into storage in 1959, in North Dakota. It was taken out of storage in 2009. Fluids were changed, rewired, tires and cleaned fuel tank were all that were done.
With fresh gas it statred right up.

We have been driving it since with no other work to it. It has 56,000 original miles and appears as it was in the 1950’s. Most model A’s were not all shiny when they were 25 years old.

They were used as a utilitarian vehicle to go from point A to point B. A steel top saved the wood and original upholstery. The repaint was probably done in the 40’s.

We plan to keep it like this as an example of a car that was typical of one with 25 years of use.”

By looking at the car you could see that it was all original. The paint was faded and you could also see another layer of paint below the top layer. The interior had definitely seen better days. You could also see some rust on some of the chrome, although there was not alot of chrome on this car.

This is the history of the car that was in the window.

Colorado Gold

This image was recently featured in Fine Art America Travel group.

When I took this photograph I was out with the family enjoying the fall colors in Teller County, Colorado. This landscape scene captures the bright vivid colors of autumn in Colorado. In the center of the image there is a lake that is on private land. I photographed this image from a road that is known as Gold Camp Road, which is a popular road between Colorado Springs and Victor. Every year during the fall Gold Camp road is packed with Leaf lookers, trying to get that perfect photo. When the sun light hits the Aspen leaves it is almost like gold. When you are in the middle of an Aspen Groveand the sun hits those aspen leaves it casts off a golden glow.

Colorado is a great place to visit in the fall season.

Picking Out The Flowers

Every year in May my spouse heads to the local greenhouse with her mother. While my spouse and her mother are picking there flowers to plant in ther flower garden, me I am wandering around the greenhouse with camera in hand photographing the flowers. There are so many flowers to photograph.

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I try to find the flowers with bright colors and multiple colors. I also look for the ones with good blooms. The Red Dahlia above had a nice big bloom and the red was so vivid. I put a black background to make the flower stand out more. I thought with the original backgraound it took away from the flower. As you can see on the Red Dahlia I did manage to capture some good detail.

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The Columbine is a favorite flower of mine. I photographed this Columbine just shortly after it was just watered. The Columbine comes in different colors as well. The Columbine is the Colorado State flower. This image I also went with the black background and there were other flower pots and plants that just took away from the Columbine.

After spouse gets all the flowers she wants then its time to go home and plant them. Once she gets them planted I will go out there in her garden and take photographs of her flowers in her garden.

Cool Coast Camp Ghost Sign

While on vacation visiting friends in Rockport, TX I photographed this ghost sign on the side of a building downtown. At first when I photographed it, I never gave it any thought until my best friend told me about it. After finding some information on the internet, this ghost sign is an adverstisement for a resort for the Ku Klux Klan back in the mid 1920’s. According to the brochure it was located about 4 miles from Rockport, TX. not really sure what direction from Rockport. The Ghost sign has been on the side of the building for 30+ years.

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A Cool Ol’ Tow Truck

In the small mining town of Victor, Colorado there is this old tow truck that sits on the side of J.E.T. Service. The truck is a 1942 Chevrolet. I believe the nickname for the truck was “Betsy”. This old tow truck is pretty popular amongst photographers. I am not sure how many times I have photographed this truck but it is definitely a favorite subject of mine to photograph. I can remember when I was a boy growing up in Victor and seeing this tow truck driving down the street or towing a wrecked car. I am not sure when it was retired. It has been sitting in the same spot now for several years.
I last photographed the truck back in 2011 and its that image that has been one of my most popular images. I titled that image “Retired”.

I need to get back up to Victor and photograph this old truck again. I know that since I have photographed last that a lot of the paint has faded. I think from what I was told by the daughter of the original owner said that it was last painted in the 70’s. The truck is still owned by the family. The grandson owns the garage and the truck now. I would really like to see this old truck on the road again.

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