When I was a kid The Garage was where our parents took cars for repairs. There were no domestic garages on our street, just rows of "duplexes" (which I later found out are really fourplexes but we called them duplexes).
So The Garage was the auto repair shop. They were usually (but not always) part of a gas station. It never occurred to me that gas stations no longer repair cars and auto repair shops are so specialized that we don't call them garages any more. I guess that's progress. Well, that's a wonderful shot, Darren! I daresay there aren't many of those left and you captured it exquisitely. Even a vintage truck for atmosphere. Wonderful, evocative. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Darren Addy <[email protected]> Sent: August 6, 2013 8/6/13 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: PESO: Vintage Garage - Rogers, Nebraska Rogers is a Nebraska village on Hwy 30 (historically known as the Lincoln Highway) and is almost exactly at the midpoint of traveling between the larger Nebraska "cities" of Columbus and Fremont, Nebraska. According to the 2010 census, there were 95 people living in Rogers. This "old timey" auto repair shop (also known as a "garage") has long captured my attention while driving past, but this is the first time I took the opportunity to stop and photograph it. As luck would have it, after one shot my camera battery died and I didn't have another with me, so I got only one shot. I had some settings wrong, so it came out with the wrong color balance and exposed improperly but I didn't get rid of it. A long time later I tripped across the image and decided to have go at it with the Nik software filters of Color Efex Pro 3 and then Silver Efex Pro. This was my favorite of the various iterations that I made. I may share the others later for a comparison. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/9452427776/in/photostream/ Taken with a Pentax K-5 and the Sigma EX 28mm f1.8 1/6400 @ f4.5, ISO 1600 -- "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - Peter Galassi -- 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.
