081 - Yellow Car

081 - Yellow Car
Originally uploaded by gingerpig2000

This one is a step back into my past, when I was a car mechanic and later a development engineer, when I used to build motorcycle and car specials. I never had much interested in whatever was the most recent car out of the showroom - I did not need to be as I could do my own design work.

I took this car, sitting in the same traffic as I was because I liked the lines of it sitting there, even though I have no idea what it is. It looks bigger and more powerful than my car, but we were still stuck in the same place.

I learnt something interesting while playing around with this shot, and that is if you hike the contrast then surfaces with images in them can become shinier. this car was clean, but it did not have the reflectiveness that my image suggests.

However, at the end what I had achieved was a pretty shot, and it was as I leaned back in my chair that I said to myself "OK, it's a beautiful image of a car, but what meaning does it have for me?" I gave it some apparent speed, and I inserted the text, and then it was no longer a simple image but now expressed that feeling I have, that contrast of love of power and knowledge of the innate destructive impact on the environment..

It's funny, I never think that I am going to make car pictures, but they keep on coming. My real fascination is with tarmac - have you ever noticed the way it gleams with reflected light when the sun is close to the horizon?