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"I have been wanting to photograph these trucks/wander around this
place for a while. I have met the fellow who owns them in passing
several times but not lingered long enough to request an invite. He traps
mountain lions for a living. He drives
a 1968 short bed F-100 4wd that has a 390, a top-shift fourspeed, 3/4
ton axles and 16in wheels. I shoulda shot that one too but you'll have
to be content with the "scraps" as it were. More than a lifetime worth
of 68-72 Ford parts and an few from other eras as well. He plans to
swap his '68 frame for a '79 3/4 ton "sometime soon." From the look ofit he has a line on a few."--DB
Very nice shots. Did you take anything other than middle-distance, middle of the day, eyelevel shots?
ReplyDeleteI went out here looking for truck parts and hadn't really planned on taking pictures. It was mid to late afternoon and the light was just changing. I had it in my mind to document the whole pile (easily 20 trucks) and wanted to be fairly straightforward about it. I did meet the owner and he agreed to let me look over his cache but I hadn't specifically asked to photograph them and I was making a mental note of parts as well. Many of the images suffer for the rigidity of that approach. A lot of the method came from the proximity of the trucks to each other. But, I was really pleasantly surprised at some. Perhaps if I go back I could try for some more artful details with better lighting. As it is, PHB still has another dozen images of this place pending release. We'll just have to see what the market is for that stuff after the bottom drops out with this glut of junky Fords.
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