The Creep Factor - Volume 3

(All pics. snapped between 7/25/12 and 10/27/12 - using an iPhone and Instagram filters)

 

Random #27

(Snapped on 11/07/12 - using an iPhone and Instagram filters)

Playin' It Safe

(All pics. snapped on 11/15/12 - using an iPhone and Instagram filters)

This rambling, old feed and seed compound caught my eye a few weeks ago, while I was driving out of town to watch my son play in a soccer game. 

I mentally added it to my permanent to-do list...

...because I was certain that if I did ever go there, I'd find plenty of intriguing subject matter to shoot.

Thing was though, I wasn't in any particular hurry to scratch it off the list - since I had umpteen juicier options ahead of it in line.

Having recently curtailed going out on more adventurous outings, however (following my surprise run-in with Johnny Law) - has left me with far fewer locations from which to choose for my shoots...

...and so the other day, out of sheer necessity - I chose the old feed and seed as my next photographic destination.

Despite the absence of any sort of element of danger, it still felt good to get off of my tuchus and take some new snaps with my phone.

Thanks ever so much to the kind peeps at the feed and seed, who gave me permission to take pictures of whatever I wanted... 

Takin' it to the Streets

(All pics. snapped on 11/15/12 - using an iPhone and Instagram filters)

I got to the point the other day, when I thought I might actually lose my mind if I didn't force myself to go out and take some new pics..

I decided to start out by exploring a short street that I'm not yet familiar with - not too terribly far from where I live...

...and I was absolutely delighted that I had...

...because at the end of the road...

...I found this cluster of abandoned houses just begging for me to make their portraits. I was a very good girl and obeyed each and every "No Trespassing" sign, by taking all of my pictures from the street...and that was the only real downside to the otherwise restorative outing...

Random #26

(Snapped on 11/16/12 - using an iPhone and Instagram filters)

Simply De-VINE

(This is an older post that I started writing more than a year and a half ago, but for whatever reason - I never completed/published it - ...I found it while going through all of my old entries, as I determine which ones are suitable to repost. I decided to finish writing it this morning...)  

(Snapped on 4/03/11 - using an iPhone and an Instagram filter)

I try and always remember to send "thank you" notes to the kind folks who allow me to tromp around their property taking pictures, and the one that I sent to the junk car graveyard owner - showed the back end of an old Ford Fairlane. While on the phone with him one day, asking if it'd be all right for me to come back and take more pictures there at his place - he inquired about the car in the photo that I'd glued onto his "thank you" card. He wondered if the photo had been snapped on his lot. I said, "Yes" and he puzzled, "Huh...I had no idea that car was even back there"

(Snapped on 4/03/11 - using an iPhone and an Instagram filter)

Next he asked if I thought I'd be able to take him to where the Fairlane sat on his lot, and I was absolutely certain that I could...after so many repeat visits to his vast, old car graveyard, and so much time spent meticulously scouring the acres of permanently parked, antique cars - I had a pretty good mental inventory of the treasures kept there.

(Snapped on 4/03/11 - using a Holga 120)

(Snapped on 4/03/11 - using an iPhone and an Instagram filter)

(Snapped on 4/03/11 - using a Holga 120)

(Snapped on 4/03/11 - using an iPhone and an Instagram filter)

(Snapped on 4/03/11 - using a Holga 120)

(Snapped on 4/03/11 - using an iPhone and an Instagram filter)

(Snapped on 4/03/11 - using an iPhone and an Instagram filter)

The car graveyard owner and I met at the edge of the lot, one afternoon - and as we methodically scooted between tight rows of cars, and climbed over, under, and through intricate networks of tightly woven vines - on our quest to find the prized Ford Fairlane - I snapped a slew of new pics. with my iPhone and Holga (some of which I've shared with you here in this post). By the time we reached the forgotten, old Ford - I was beyond grateful to have had yet another fortuitous photo session with the scrummy, old cars, and the property owner was stoked to be face to face with the dream car that he'd sought but never found, for many years. Figuring out how to go about extricating the Fairlane from literally the center of the lot - definitely had the guy stumped, but his joy in having simply found it - seemed to override sorting out the complicated logistics. We thanked each other, said, "Goodbye", and both of us left feeling happy and content...