With a few days off during the Christmas break, and with the weather being absolutely beautiful, I decided to take a long walk with a camera and make some monochrome (black-and-white) images.
As is often the case, I do or see something that kick starts an idea. In this case, I got out my Nikkor 200mm f/2.0, simply because I hadn’t used it in a year or more. I made this image, and it looked great in black-and-white, so off I went on a new monochrome challenge.
The camera I chose for my walk was the Canon SX700HS, a higher-end point and shoot model from 2015. A friend of mine gave it to me earlier this year.
I cast a deep shadow on the wintertime dry grass.Just past the far northwest end of the patch, there is a very old Chevrolet pickup. It might belong to the neighbors, or it could be a lost relic no one will claim. In the years since I’ve been photographing it, nature has taking more and more of it back.
The hike took me to the back portions of the property where I live, to a derelict pickup I have photographed a number of times. I became familiar with the route when I wanted to walk Hawken, my Irish wolfhound, longer distances in the winter.
Little remains of the interior of the truck. Even the chromed steel is rusting.The speedometer doesn’t even have numbers any more.The sunlight was bold on the windshield wipers.It’s probably been 40 years since this truck had any intact glass.You can almost hear the wind in this dry grass.This oil well resides on the north end of the patch. It was evident from fallen trees and other signs that no one has been to this site in quite a long time, months or years.All the pressure gauges read zero.Paint peels back from this rusty separator barrel.I finally worked my way past the cell tower, shown against a perfectly clear shy.
