Here is another of the pictures taken Thursday at the J. Strom Thurmond Dam. Light was coming from the side, so the sparkley red car looks more maroon, but I kind of like it. I don’t know what kind of tree was shedding on the grass there, but the leaves were quite big and oddly shaped.
Went out this afternoon looking for a fall like background for Miata photos. I’m working on a 2006 Garnet Red Miata Calendar. I’ve gathered about 16 images in a directory for me to choose from, but I wanted a couple more choices…
This was taken at the power station at the J. Strom Thurmond Dam. I’ve a couple other possibilities from today’s photo safari. One from an intersection not too far from home, plus one or two more from around the dam area.
I’m only halfway through pruning 2004’s entries. There is a lot of trash entries in there. I’d like to maybe not write so many inane posts, forcing one, even when there is nothing to write about, but I’m afraid if I don’t write something every night, the “good” will never materialize. FYI, this is exactly the kind of post I am deleting…
One of our routes to Augusta has an old abandoned industrial looking building on it. I always thought it would be a nice backdrop for a Miata photograph, but it is always locked up. But a few times recently the gate has been open, so it is must be used for something. Unfortunately those times we have been on a mission and haven’t had the time to stop.
Last Saturday, Miata photographs were my mission and the gate was unlocked. I drove in and parked near a loading dock. There was a sign that said, “Please check in at office.”, but with its patinaed look I had no idea whether it was current or a holdover from when this place was actually in use. As I turned the corner I noticed a trailer with a door open so I called inside, “Hello.” A fellow in coveralls appeared and said hello right back. I asked him what was this place and he told me it is used as a training facility for heavy equipment operators. (This explains the half dozen old bulldozers, ranging in size from big to real big, parked there (not visible from the road.) It is open on every other Friday and Saturday, but today there was classroom training at a different location because they were installing new classrooms at this site. The rusty buildings aren’t used anymore, but they were a part of a Huber Clay Co. kaolin mine processing plant. I asked if he minded if I parked my car around the other side of the building and took a few pictures. He said no, so off I went.
Spent the morning out cruising looking for Miata photo backgrounds. Time to start gathering images for my 2006 wall calendar. Here are the images I used for the 2005 calendar. I snagged about 4 images that should work today and I must have pretty close to the other eight stored on the hard drive already. For this photo the sun was on the wrong side of the car and seeing as I couldn’t really correct the contrast to my satisfaction I added some grain and pumped up the saturation. I kind of like the effect and this one will probably be for October 2006.
29,000 pairs of socks. 29,000 knives. 29,000 VHS tapes. 29,000 out of date bottles of asprin. And 29,000 used chainsaws.
Today we went to the Jockey Lot outside of Anderson, SC. Someone thought it would be fun, so we planned a trip with the MMC and it was a nice day for a drive. While the Jockey lot is a huge ass flea market, pretty soon it all starts to look alike, did we have fun? You bet. Will we go back? Doubt it. About halfway there the Emperor passed through the 29,000 mile mark. We bought this Miata just before Thanksgiving in 2003 so it looks like we will make it past 30k before the 2 year mark.
Most of the time the skies were blue with scattered clouds, but on the horizon, in every direction you looked there were dark gray clouds. The weather forecast called for a chance of rain and while it never did (on us anyway) everytime we stopped for any lentgh of time everyone put their tops up in case. On the way back we stopped in the quaint little town of Abbeville for lunch. We parked over on the same street as we ended up at the last Trivia Road Rally the MMC did in May. I had snagged a picture of one of our member’s cars as it was parked and the wall and art there made a nice back drop, today the Emperor had it’s portrait taken there too.
Can’t really tell from the picture, but the car was really dirty. I did wipe off the big stuff with a towel I keep handy, but when we got home the car got a much needed bath.
Nope, just moving back into the old place, with the new furniture. Reclaimed the old name too.
Added a Mr. Fletcher’s Ride Photo Gallery and placed links to all the galleries in the sidebar for your ease. Don’t confuse the Miata Photo Gallery with the category Miata Photos, the Gallery will contain my favorite Miata shots, while the category will be populated with the everyday Miata pictures.