In case Mr. Bragg didn't ask you I will. How come that new-fangled
camera of yourn (with 1 zillion ISO) cain't take no pitcher of of a
black Model T roadster in a dark and dingy garage... even if'n it were
midnight? It's prolly even got anti-shakin' stuff in the lens so you
don't need no silly tripod for a half hour. How come? How come?
Chuck Norcutt
On 5/10/2011 2:43 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> I fear I may have greatly offended you in advance earlier today.<g>
> Was driving back from Augusta (A-guster if you're a Mainer), when, on
> a rural road I happened upon a lineup of old trucks. As it turned out
> I turned around and went back and got out to look at them. They were
> all built on Ford Model A frames, and one of them had some Model T
> parts as well. All had been heavily customized for work in the Maine
> woods. I was thinking there were some excellent HDR possibilities
> there when an elderly gentleman and his elderly Chocolate Lab came
> out to see what I was doing. About two hours later I finally
> left.<g>
>
> Mr. Bragg was born in 1922, and has lived in the same house for the
> past 40-something odd years. He used to run a junk yard and parts
> store, and because I was interested, he brought out his own hand-made
> on a Model A frame work tractor. I got him to pose with it. Then he
> took me into his garage to see his Model T Roadster, which was a
> thing of real beauty. Not customized at all. Lovingly restored. But
> it was under wraps in heavy darkness, so no opportunities for
> pictures of the Touring car.
>
> I'll be working on the images in the coming weeks, and will post some
> at a later date. But I know several of the shots deliberately put the
> foreground out of focus to get what was in the background. The
> hand-made sawmill-on-a-Model A-frame-trailer comes immediately to
> mind.
>
> Hope I got something useful, but the best part was the time spent
> with Mr. Bragg and his dog.
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On May 10, 2011, at 7:29 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> It was my favorite too... and also shows that I can occasionally
>> (and heartily) embrace a photo with blurred foreground.
>
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