DALE BROS COFFEE

Punch a few holes in the sucker and it could be an oil filter for your De Soto.

Stopping to smell the coffee, aren't we? I usually do not approach your work from the purely--drily, if you will--"aesthetic" POV, as I think your work is usually not about the thing, but the essence behind it, but this one works equally as a study of rust against blue, of the permanence of the sky versus the fleeting works of man.

I hadn't thought about it until your comment, but it's pretty interesting that this really does kind of fall into that category I kind of mockingly call, "pretty." As you stated, I usually try to say something about our condition or poke fun at something in an image. The only real commentary I can even remotely see here is that perhaps this rusting relic is representative of our once robust economy and social structure, and now things are a bit tarnished. But if that had been my intent, I probably should have made this a whole lot uglier and grittier. Well, I guess it's okay if I do a pretty one now and again.

Ohhh ! You have new staff here. I like this image, that fading and peeling colour, the oversized billboard, or how you name it, symbolizing the; "nobody care anymore", attitude.

 

Cheers; Bela

Yes, I've added a lot of stuff and created a most recent posted folder. Glad you like this decaying relic.

good morning, do you want a coffee?

I like the warm colours and the simple image. I hope you will have a look to my view of the world... ciao! Elena

You have got to be one of the luckiest son of a @#$% photographers I know. Besides myself being able to shoot such sultry and willing beautiful women. Your photographical finds must mean your are charmed by the Gods of the Kodak realm. You have an excellent eye and an abundance of opportunity to capture these little gems of optical indulgence. Wonderful.

"Optical indulgence?" Oh, man, I love that! I'm a big believer in having "The Eye." Many of us on Pnet have it, but it is a fairly rare trait found in the general population. There are gems all around us if we only have the eye to see them. I've taken many of these images in Fresno, Ca. Now ask any average bloke and he will tell you there is not a more deadly dull place on earth. But, in reality, it's chock full of super subject material. With models, you create the scene. In nature it's handed to you on a silver platter.