Exif data: NIKON D300, Focal Length: 105 mm, Aperture: f/5.6, Exposure: 1/500 sec, ISO Speed: 200, Flash: Not Fired
07/03/2010 at 21:27
Categories: [abandoned]  [automobiles]  [beautifully decayed]  
52 comments
 

• Back when cars were made out of steel and went vroom vroom. best...jerry
  ordinaryimages @ 2010-03-07 22:29:47
• I love this! There is such warmth in the shot from the light and the tall grasses. The rust is perfect and I just love your composition. Nice one Sherri!
  bluechameleon @ 2010-03-07 23:43:24
• I like the light of this photo.
  Valérie @ 2010-03-08 00:00:28
• Aged things are beautiful and here is the proof. Light and tones are superb!
  Standley @ 2010-03-08 01:43:08
• I am in total agreement!
  Ginnie @ 2010-03-08 01:48:16
• this is really beautiful the way you've shot it
  yz @ 2010-03-08 01:49:57
• interesting shot i like point of vieux
  fabrizio @ 2010-03-08 03:04:48
• What a great find!! Wonderful rusty colors!!!
  Marcie @ 2010-03-08 03:14:01
• Interesting find and point of view.
  frankdejol @ 2010-03-08 03:23:21
• Hi Sherri, nice shot of an oldie but a goodie... my dog died last night, i'm sad
  Elaine- @ 2010-03-08 03:53:43
• Your photograph is really good!
  foto-rolero54 @ 2010-03-08 03:53:54
• The wreckage color coordinates well with the grass. Love how nature is taking over, as it should.
  Michael Skorulski @ 2010-03-08 05:23:04
• Excellent abandoned shot, I like the low pov.
  BoB @ 2010-03-08 05:44:03
• Ooh I really like this, everything from the tones to the DOF, the feeling that we're taking a glimpse of something forbidden from our hiding place behind the grass. A great frame!
  Craig @ 2010-03-08 06:57:42
• Gorgeous! With the colors on the car it almost looks like it is actually growing out of the earth! Superb photo!
  martie @ 2010-03-08 07:52:52
• Nice find. Makes me think of Christine. You know...the jealous car movie.
  hoi @ 2010-03-08 08:16:20
• Beauty is here, Sherri - though my first thought was 'this is sending shivers down Evie's back.' - roll on...
  Stephen Phillips @ 2010-03-08 08:26:18
• Cool Cool!! I love it!! Great one:)
  kyungmee @ 2010-03-08 09:16:36
• Love the textures, beautiful image.
  Ashish Sidapara @ 2010-03-08 09:28:28
• What a great find. Love the colors here.
  Terral @ 2010-03-08 09:29:10
• What a great find Sherri. I like the composition and the warm colors.
  Frida @ 2010-03-08 09:49:52
• I like this rusting relic nestled in the brush. It looks good to see a genuine chrome bumper. A fine, nostalgic image.
  don @ 2010-03-08 10:07:21
• Forgotten in the wild ... Great shot!
  Robert Kruh @ 2010-03-08 11:23:50
• excellent mood, colors and textures
  yiannis krikis @ 2010-03-08 11:37:43
• fantastic shot. artwork of "nature" like the colors on this beutifull compostition
  Beat @ 2010-03-08 13:08:40
• the golden tones of the dry grass work so well with the rust of this old car so well makes for such a brilliant shot, love this
  JJ @ 2010-03-08 13:37:24
• excellent find. just my type. :)
  Otto K. @ 2010-03-08 15:57:12
• Nice rust photo. I have to wonder about the history when I see these wonderful old cars just abandoned somewhere. Looks like some green leaves are coming in there!
  Mark Johnson @ 2010-03-08 17:43:11
• Interesting. I see the effects of entropy leading into the wreck gradually transforming itself to the surrounding landscape.
  Anshul @ 2010-03-08 18:13:41
• beautiful shot, Sherri! i like this rustic feel
  Charles Dastodd @ 2010-03-08 18:19:20
• great find, i do like how you framed it with the weeds and greens.. very nice shot.. :)
  rian @ 2010-03-08 20:01:41
• Interesting find. Leave it where it stops.
  Nick @ 2010-03-08 20:35:41
• A very nice find you got here. I like the sort of hidden position of the vehicle.
  Andrés @ 2010-03-08 20:43:35
• beautiful indeed! oh poor wreck!!
  crash @ 2010-03-08 22:10:09
• Si simple et si beau en même tant, c'est bien là que réside tout ton talent de photographe.
  Grand bravo à toi!
  JMS* @ 2010-03-08 22:44:31
• The muted tones are fabulous...great shot!
  Pavan Kaul @ 2010-03-09 04:14:30
• Great shot, i like the colors and perspective! Beautiful image!
  Andrei Barbu @ 2010-03-09 06:23:57
• I always find it amazing that "man" can mess up the landscape with a piece of junk that he can't seem to figure out where to put, but Nature over a period of time conceals it.......for us photographers to find of course. Great shot Sherri!
  Don @ 2010-03-09 11:59:49
• I love finding abandoned stuff, makes the best pictures!
  Robin @ 2010-03-09 12:08:48
• this is really beautiful the way you've shot it
  Chris B @ 2010-03-09 12:22:33
• beautiful composition and framing..
  Yashar @ 2010-03-09 13:39:45
• I love to find these old cars out on the road and photograph them. There is an inherent sadness about decaying objects. All of them were someone's dream at one time or another. The designer loved his creation, the owner was proud of his auto, and maybe the second owner bought it because he or she had always dreamed of owning one.
  
  Great shot indeed.
  Jim Browning @ 2010-03-09 16:31:48
• That`s a motive, which I would have also gladly before the lens. Beautiful - I like it.
  Cerstin @ 2010-03-09 18:11:55
• yes, beautiful wreckage. He's so sturdy looking too isn't he despite all the rust and neglect. A warm and storied shot.
  Diane @ 2010-03-09 19:30:18
• Excellent quote to go with your image, Sherri - fantastic!
  Toni @ 2010-03-10 01:17:30
• Hiding in the hedges, waiting for some ambitious teenager to restore her (or perhaps they don't do that anymore).
  Turnbill @ 2010-03-10 06:00:13
• A beautiful old star.
  Still @ 2010-03-10 14:33:20
• that must have been sitting there for ages!! This is such a cool find!
  Arjan - PlasticDaisy @ 2010-03-10 16:00:23
• As much as I hate old junkers littering the world I love finding them for the photos.
  This is a gorgeous shot.I like the weather beaten paint tones.
  Michael Rawluk @ 2010-03-11 12:23:35
• Cool find. Wonder how it got there?
  Andy @ 2010-03-11 14:21:12
• Love these finds....but I confess to sometimes being too lazy to stop.
  12bitphoto @ 2010-03-12 11:59:57
• Superb!
  Omar @ 2010-03-14 01:55:37

The taint of age can be very beautiful. The wreckage of man-made objects is something more beautiful than the new. Rust and weathering adds a patina of elegant gorp.
- Brett Weston, (Photographer)