Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Those old boats are fun to drive!? My first car was a 64 Impala 2dr ht with a 2 speed powerglide tranny behind a 327 4bbl!? The car had one heck of a passing gear, you don't need to go around corners, just in a straight line(really fast of course)!? Once I went around a corner and did a 180 by accident(crappy tires and wet pavement).? Those were the days! Curt On Friday, April 4, 2014 3:55 PM, Chris Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote: I think a lot of the love for old cars like this is that they're more beautiful than modern cars. The complex styling found on cars like this costs more to build and in some cases is less aerodynamic, which affect fuel economy. Todays cars all look alike; in the past each model had its own style. Another thing is simple nostalgia for the past. These cars are 50 years old; they're antiques, relics, and few have survived relative to the millions of them actually produced. About my site: The CMS I use allows me to load larger images, and it automatically sizes them to the sizes needed for the thumbnails, main image, and enlarged image. I set the sizes each of these should be when I set up the site. I do not want my images any bigger because it encourages theft, but I do have a couple that I want to allow a larger version of, and I cannot turn off the ENLARGED IMAGE link on some pages while allowing it on others. I could write a subroutine that would allow that but I have been lazy. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com/ My portfolio http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 4/4/14 4:19 PM, "Douglas Barry" <imra at iol.ie> wrote: >Interesting car, but it baffles me why these wallowfish are so idolised. >My >cribs are probably based on longstanding Euro journo biases. The only >time I >drove an old american car, it lurched around corners, so just confirmed >all >those pre-drive scribblings and prejudices I had absorbed. As I live in a >land, and, in truth, a continent where straight roads are an occasional >abberation we use to tune our radios, I have to say wallowfish don't >appeal. >I prefer something tauter that handles. But then again, I'm not a flaneur. > >Of course Chris, there's another bafflement in this and others of your >photos. Why, when I click on the ENLARGE button, do I get the same size >photo as I got before I clicked on the ENLARGE button??? > >Do enlighten me. > >Douglas >_________ >Douglas Barry >Bray, Co. Wicklow >Republic of Ireland > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Chris Crawford" <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> >To: <lug at leica-users.org>; "Olympus Camera Discussion" ><olympus at thomasclausen.net> >Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 7:30 PM >Subject: [Leica] 1961 Buick LeSabre > > >> This beautiful old Buick is sitting by an abandoned building on US-27 >> south >> of Fort Wayne, Indiana. I photographed it a couple days ago. >> >> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=1876 >> >> -- >> Chris Crawford >> Fine Art Photography >> Fort Wayne, Indiana >> 260-437-8990 >> >> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com/ My portfolio >> >> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 >> Become a fan on Facebook >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lugfor more information >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lugfor more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lugfor more information