I’ve been pretty busy over the last week and as a result haven’t been able to get out as much during the evenings as I would like. In fact, there have been a few nights when it was already dark when I made it home. Throw a family reunion weekend into the mix and the image archive begins to run pretty low. So today’s image takes me in a completely different direction from where I’ve been focusing over the last month. I...

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The fifties and sixties were characterized by dreams of the fantastic future that awaited those of us living today. These forward looking thoughts and ideas can also be found in the accents adorning the vehicles of the time. In today’s photo, we see the streamlined fender mounted lights that in some ways resemble the bullet trains found in Japan and Europe today. While the chrome surrounding the fender light definitely stood out in this...

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We’ve all seen that end-of-the-world movie at some point with abandoned cars lining the streets their owners long since gone. Walking through the mass of discarded vehicles over the weekend scenes like this would occasionally flash through my mind. The arrangement of some of the vehicles seemed to work perfectly for a shot that could embody that same sense of abandonment. This particular row stood out since the cars are facing in opposite...

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Vehicles from the mid-1900′s were covered in countless extravagant accents – large hood ornaments, sweeping taillight fins, over-sized fenders, tons of chrome – you name it and there was probably a car that had it incorporated in some form! I don’t know what model vehicle this was but the arrangement of three chrome encircled exhaust ports really caught my eye. I think what most interested me was the simplicity of...

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There were so many wonderful shots to be had in the junk yard that we visited Saturday that I’m actually having a hard time choosing the images to post! Today’s image is of what I think is a 1962 Ford Thunderbird. The iconic “Thunderbird” hood emblem gives away that much but the year was a little more difficult to identify. I knew what the 1950′s Thunderbird looked like (come on … who hasn’t seen...

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