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abandoned bus
GinaRothfels


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Challenge: Hidden Gem -- 1,000th Challenge! (Advanced Editing VII*)
Collection: Challenges 2009
Camera: Olympus C-2100UZ
Location: Gauteng, South Africa
Date: May 11, 2003
Aperture: F2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/100 sec
Galleries: Abstract, Vintage
Date Uploaded: Mar 10, 2009

[Mar. 12th, 2009 07:29:02 PM]

I was interested by comments that people would like to see more of the bus. Unfortunately, in it's present setting it is surrounded by pots of flowers and other such things and it is not possible to take a decent photo of the whole thing.

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Place: 862 out of 1129
Avg (all users): 5.0925
Avg (commenters): 5.4884
Avg (participants): 5.0843
Avg (non-participants): 5.1375
Views since voting: 729
Views during voting: 676
Votes: 519
Comments: 47
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/17/2009 11:04:43 AM
Interesting shot... i like the colours of the bus, and the light stands out nicely.
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 03/17/2009 08:35:07 AM
We have quite a few trucks that color around here.... primer gray
Interesting study, like the grungy look. +1
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 03/17/2009 06:34:26 AM
I like how close up you got with this, but it lacks a bit of depth for me.
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 03/17/2009 02:49:53 AM
Nicely captured and processed.
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 03/16/2009 05:45:01 PM
It didn't know how long it had sat there, gathering dust in that empty, abandoned, and dusty old garage. For years, perhaps, or decades. All it knew that at one time it had been loved and tended like no other. Used to ferry children to and from their schools, or to bring people to long imagined and much needed vacations across the state. It knew that once, it had been happy.

Now, after all these years, sitting here in this dark and dankness, for time uncounted, it had seethed in bitterness and despair. It had fed on its own anger and helplessness until its very heart had grown black.

So it was when one day, the dark and haunted gloom of the garage in which it rested was broken by a shaft of light. A door had been thrown open, and silhouetted against the painful glare of the forgotten sunlight was the figure of a man. From the darkest recesses of its memory, came a vision of the people of before. The people that had loved it, and then abandoned it here to an evil and lonely fate. The people that so resembled what stood in this doorway, which it knew now as a path to its renewal and revenge.

As the man in the door began to enter the garage, a red and angry light flashed to life on the fender of the seething evil that rested there, and an engine long forgotten flared in outrage and vengeance.
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 03/16/2009 01:57:13 PM
Like the derelict feel
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 03/16/2009 12:40:03 PM
like old junk pictures...this is great...
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 03/16/2009 09:32:07 AM
I want to see the rest of the bus...
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 03/15/2009 11:52:04 PM
cool capture
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 03/15/2009 10:57:06 PM
Well captured and presented.
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 03/15/2009 09:31:29 PM
Great composition, nice use of color.
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 03/15/2009 06:37:07 PM
Interesting how good photography can make the most mundane almost art like ... well done
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 03/15/2009 11:45:57 AM
seems very overprocessed
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 03/15/2009 10:06:54 AM
I really like the dull colors and that POP of orange!

Not voting yet.
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 03/15/2009 08:37:59 AM
Composed and framed to maximum effect.
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 03/15/2009 08:05:35 AM
Good detail, especially in the orange reflector.
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 03/15/2009 06:59:53 AM
I like the composition but the focus could have been a little sharper
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 03/15/2009 05:51:09 AM
nice detail but I dont like this quality.. just 3 from me sorry
brano
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 03/15/2009 05:43:44 AM
post processing brought out the light which added interest
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 03/14/2009 11:53:34 PM
there is potential in this shot, post processing could have been a little different, 6
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 03/14/2009 07:04:40 PM
nice old find
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 03/14/2009 04:06:07 PM
Worn! As I expected.
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 03/14/2009 02:46:36 PM
Great capture of texture.
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 03/14/2009 10:37:09 AM
Very nice geometric forms here. The composition works well.
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 03/13/2009 08:24:03 PM
good job transforming a bus into an abstract.
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 03/13/2009 11:14:38 AM
Beautiful details. Nice to see some bright colors also.
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 03/13/2009 10:38:26 AM
Nice sense of design and placement. Good contrast of colors! 7
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 03/13/2009 10:13:15 AM
I like the crop. Good shot. Almost looks like the red light is working and on.
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 03/13/2009 07:12:51 AM
cool and unique
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 03/13/2009 04:32:05 AM
Yeh well that orange indicator has really given the image some impact, great shot
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 03/12/2009 10:59:12 PM
not a lot of interest
 03/12/2009 03:54:17 PM
A good artifact study.
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 03/12/2009 08:42:15 AM
Is it not amazing how a simple red light, can turn a photo of a old fender into art.
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 03/12/2009 07:48:36 AM
I would have loved to see more of this vintage bus. I think a full shot of it would have been more powerful.
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 03/12/2009 04:38:58 AM
Interesting abstract. Nice you saw the art in this. A little grainy for me tho.
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 03/11/2009 08:41:26 PM
I like the close crop and the beat up look with the bonnet raised slightly and the wires from the headlight. Good capture.
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 03/11/2009 08:02:47 PM
i did not know it was a bus until i read the title...would've liked to have seen a little more of the bus
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 03/11/2009 07:07:27 PM
Interesting shot. I like the this is not a typical shot.
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 03/11/2009 06:59:28 PM
A Ford? interesting edit.
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 03/11/2009 03:37:25 PM
Good choice with the crop.
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 03/11/2009 12:03:10 PM
nice and simple, great lines in this
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 03/11/2009 09:33:13 AM
the crop is too tight in my opinion, but i like the feel of the image.
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 03/11/2009 09:30:59 AM
I like your crop but would like to see some more color.
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 03/11/2009 08:35:23 AM
Awesme desat! A real sense of history here.
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 03/11/2009 06:20:46 AM
Interesting textures
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 03/10/2009 10:08:53 PM
Funky.. I likee it.
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 03/10/2009 09:31:37 PM
The color gives a nice contrast.
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