Excellent! nice image of the hood ornament, and it is really great the way you surrounded it with the reflected clouds.
Dan On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 7:58 AM, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > I love hood decorations on cars. As you may know, they evolved from > radiator caps. Initially they were handles on rad caps, used so you > wouldn't burn your hands as you removed the cap to add coolant when > your engine overheated (as it often did in the old days). Gradually > those handles became decorative and featured manufacturer logos or > symbols. > > With the advent of bodies that covered engines, these works of art > were moved to the front of the hood (bonnet to you Brits). Gradually, > most disappeared, but a few remain. The Mercedes Benz Tri-Star comes > to mind, as does the beautiful Rolls Royce Spirit of Ecstasy (often > misnamed "The Flying Lady"). My favourite by far is the Jaguar cat, > Leaper: > > http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2010/09/among-clouds.html > > I saw this one last evening on (I think it was) a Jag S-type parked on > Yonge Street here in Toronto. > > Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. > > *istD, lowly 18-55mm zoom. > > 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. > -- 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.
