I finished processing my L.A. trip photos a while ago, but I haven’t gotten around to posting any of them. I probably won’t end up posting many, as the vast majority are, of course, photos of Nola and even I can only handle so many of those. The rest of the material is pretty thin, with one notable exception.
During our drive to L.A., just after a gas stop, we visited a quirky little museum devoted to General George S. Patton. The inside portion of the museum was a little dingy and extremely musty, filled with fading photos and moth eaten memorabilia, but the outside was a glorious field full of rusty vehicles. I was positively giddy.
I love me some rusty old trucks with lots of dials and buttons. I actually didn’t spend a lot of time on these particular images, as I was whipping through the almost 500 photos I ended up processing.
I’m thinking I’ll go back through them and try some black and white conversion and/or really punching up the grunge factor. But I did want to get a few posted, so they don’t completely fall off my radar. I’m feeling very photographically inspired these days.
The first image almost looks like there is ice on the rusty dashboard. The texture is great with that image. I really like the reflection of the glass in the second image. Red can be such an overpowering color and that bright spot of the reflection adds nice balance. I love dials and knobs too. Can’t wait to see what you come up with when you play around with these more – especially if you do black and white or add some grunge.