Last shot of the 1939 Pontiac: a tight macro close up of a very small part of its left front fender. Only three inches edge to edge. Stars? Fireworks? Rust flowers?
I used the tripod for this, of course, and was careful to line up the plane of my camera's sensor parallel with the plane of my subject - not an easy task because my subject was slightly curved.
It's like stepping back through time, seeing these layers of old paint. Very pale blue-green or even turquoise, underlain by blue, with dark green beneath that. Exposed to harsh winds and blowing grit, baking sun in summer and cracking cold in winter for more than sixty years. An incredible journey despite never leaving the lonely prairie field where it lies.
Photographed in the unincorporated community of Rosefield, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2025 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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A small area of the 1939 Pontiac's front left fender... the right fender is missing... every time I spend some time looking at this old car's surface, I see something interesting. The changes are gradual, but I can see noticeable differences in some areas as the paint continues to peel off and the rust spreads in often surprising patterns. Neil Young got it right in 1979: rust never sleeps.
More to come...
Photographed in a field in the middle of nowhere, Rosefield, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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Last shot in this brief set of abstract ice images. The entire surface area seen here - only a few inches in each direction - is flat. The entire frozen puddle surface was only about 18 inches in diameter, maybe less. I liked how some areas of the ice were opaque, some transparent, and some in-between.
The ice was very thin, maybe a quarter inch, and would melt away in the warming sun. Whether it re-formed into another miraculous configuration of shapes and lines and textures like this, or evaporated, or was mostly absorbed into the earth beneath, I will never know. It was one of those "Be Here Now!" moments.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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This is the same bubble seen in yesterday's upload, perhaps a little less symbolic due to the tighter crop. Note, too, that the colours are warmer. This was because my body was blocking the direct light in the previous shot, whereas here I have moved around the little icy puddle to find a different framing, and a touch of direct sun has taken away the cool blueish cast. That brown reminds me of some species of kelp found on the west coast. Here, it appears to come from last year's dead grasses under the water, and fine particles of prairie earth suspended in the water.
But none of that really matters. I was just looking for pleasing shapes - something interesting, that perhaps I haven't seen before. Call it a deep dive in a shallow pool - and I didn't even break the ice!
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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Is it really ice? Or is it blown glass... seaweed in a tide pool... no, it's ice. A small puddle, maybe 18 inches in diameter, with a thin coating of ice. I know the bright parts appear convex, but they are air pockets beneath the ice surface. I positioned the tripod directly above, and shot straight down. That's all there was to it.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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