On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 03:16:05PM -0400, frank theriault wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > These pictures were shot on the West side of Hellyer for a > > change. There's a little red International tractor parked in a field > > next to a company parking lot. I stopped by for a quick shoot when I > > left work yesterday: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157616541528855/
> Whenever I see an old caterpillar tractor like that which was used for Actually, this is an International Harvester, not a "Cat". > pulling farm implements, I think of The Grapes of Wrath. The > "corporate farmers" who pushed the sharecroppers of the farms in > Oklahoma used those things (as described in the book), both the till > the farms and to raze the buildings of the sharecroppers. One of my favorite short stories was written by Theodore Sturgeon and featured a Cat D-7: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killdozer!_(story) I was totally jazzed when it was made into a movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzqhAmP-gq4 > > I really like this set of photos. Thanks. There's something really cool about shooting old farm equipment. A buddy of mine up in Sonoma has a tractor with the same motor as his Triumph TR-2s, as well as a bunch of cool cars. I want to go up there for a photo shoot sometime. > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post the wrong answer. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
