100 - Blue Car Jazz

100 - Blue Car Jazz
Originally uploaded by gingerpig2000

This image was part done on my computer for several weeks, with only the blue treatment and the black background done. I wanted to add some kind of light treatment to the background to show the traffic bending away into the distance. The problem - my lack of drawing skills.

Then I came across some images of lights from an even older stalled project where I failed to photograph the lights of cars at night to anything like close to my satisfaction - it was freezing, I could not find a good location to take the picture, and the traffic was bolshy.

OK, the lights showed the camera had moved, but that was the effect I was after in comparison to the precise focus of the foreground.

Our expectations are a great thing when we are looking forwards to an event, with our minds filling in the gaps in the unknown future with our expectations from the past. Sometimes the actual event is better, sometimes it is worse - but it is always at least partly unpredictable.

Not knowing fully where a picture will take me is part of the interest I have in them, they allow me to explore things that would otherwise go unregarded in my mind.