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The challenge beginning March 26, 2010 is:
Bumper to Bumper suggested by me,
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I take a lot of photos on the road.
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I am pretty sure I’ve posted this one, or similar, before. The view is the main street driving into Loveland, about 3 miles down the road and when traffic is bumper to bumper as you see here, it takes a while to move the short distance to home , Ohio, USA. I really enjoy taking night photos lit with lights from anywhere or anything and night traffic lets me practice. What I don’t have are things of real interest like the stadium or the river front. I keep hoping.
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This is maybe 20 minutes from home, traffic going north, away from the Kenwood Shopping Mall. The building under construction has been like you see it for two or three years now. I am guessing money problems here in the states is the culprit.
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I knew when I saw this scene I wanted the photo. It reminds me, in a distant warped way, of the Running of the Bulls in Spain. When I was in my teens, cars owned by boys my age were always souped up. Looking at this photo I recall the sound of engines reving and the sweet sound of glass pack mufflers as cars lined up as you see them above, getting ready to tear off, racing the streets to see who had the fastest. It was a running of the bulls in a way and a lot of times, just as dangerous. A cult classic movie for a view of what those years were like is, “American Graffiti“. It’s a loved part of my movie collection and a lot of well known actors/actress more or less had their start in it, Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss, Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Phillips, and Suzanne Somers. Ron Howard was already well known from the Andy Griffith show. I like cars, then and now and love those that date back to Model T’s. All of them are appealing to look at, even those Bumper to Bumper.
Thanks always for your comments, have a good week
and keep taking those photos.
Comments (7)
Nice!! Esp. the first one!
I remember seeing ‘American Graffiti’ and enjoyed it. I recall one American lady I met commenting about the volume of traffic here being so heavy, too small a country being the reason for that I suppose. America and ‘automobiles’ are words that go together in my mind and these are confirmation shots of that to me, I especially like the night one – reminds of the Door’s line, ‘Keep your eyes on the road and your hands upon the wheel’. Great atmosphere there!
The photos show well the traffic jam and the flock of cars at night or in the wait at a light ready to rush .
Love
Michel
Love the 3rd shot — before reading your description, I thought it looked like a starting lineup for a race of some sort — running of the bulls was a good description!
Can’t say I would like to be amongst that lot, getting to old for it now, though in my misspent youth I would have enjoyed it. Those photo are just like the Cities in the UK as regards traffic. I reckon the UK must be the biggest car park in the world! I see you have changed your background to your Spring edition, very nice. ~ Tim
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Love
Michel
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