Sunday, 22 November 2009

A lucky find

While out for reasons unrelated to photography, I came across a burnt out car at the Holiday Inn next to the football stadium. The car had obviously either caught fire or been set alight, either way it had blown up and not only gutted itself but also ruined the British Gas van next to it, melting the wingmirror and destroying the window.


I took the oppurtunity to grab some quick photographs but then it began raining. I think they're a good prelude to the images I'll hopefully be taking at the scrap yard on Tuesday.

For now, these images fit well with the idea of looking at what happens to a car after journeys are over and it's not wanted anymore or it becomes unusable. Also, I'm hoping to get to the same scrap yard that the images in my previous post were taken at when I'm home on Saturday.

2 comments:

dominic said...

that is pretty lucky , what camera you using to get that lovely contrast ? film or digital ?

and rain is no reason to stop taking pictures :P

Alexithymia said...

Yep, for once I had some luck! I just used my digital camera, tried to get it as contrasty as possible while taking and upped it slightly post-editing.

Would love to use film but obviously didn't have it on me.

It's an excuse but i didn't want my camera to get drenched :)