2022 – My Kind of SUVs (Stretched-oUt Vehicles) in March
(ignore April 30, 2017 publish date – this was published on May 4 , 2022)
So I took a little license with that title – sue me – but I’m really starting to like this stuff.
The few examples of this particular type of photography that I can find online usually list them as “panoramic fails” and caution you to stay away from any images that show motion, lest your subjects become “elongated and distorted”!
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Oh, horrors!
Are you kidding me? I spent a couple of decades capturing hundreds of performers whose minds and motions could be labeled “elongated and distorted”. Motion was my specialty. If anything, I run towards this stuff – not away from it.
And now I suddenly have a whole shirtload of these images and find myself constantly thinking about where I can find other roads/places where I can really make these images stand out.
I hope you guys like this stuff because I’m gonna be doing it for a while. I’ve already got about 35 images lined up from April and another 22 just from the first day in May, when I did a highway exit shoot (lots of curved, snaky vehicles).
So let’s ease into this with about a dozen from March 30 when I took a walk around town on some busy streets (truck traffic is fun to shoot this way).
Note: These are ALL large files (well, not so much for the first one), so click them all to enlarge (some will go two clicks, but then you might need to scroll a bit).
Let’s begin…………
I’m facing south as a northbound car makes a left. Its front end appears to have been absorbed by the traffic light pole:
A southbound bus at the same intersection:
Everything you see here is all the same SUV. I’m not sure how this happens, but at least you can tell what the long part originally came from:
It’s fun trying to read what the sides of the trucks actually say. This one says “Parkway Toyota”:
It appears that my camera may have visited the liquor store behind the truck just prior to this shoot and imbibed enough to come up with an image that looks like this.
Here’s your first view of the new, sort-of-familiar-looking SPU delivery truck:
Despite what you see on the left end, the front of the truck is on the far right:
This one won’t enlarge too much, but look at the “wheels” – especially the back ones (which are actually the front ones). Despite appearances, this vehicle is actually moving from right to left. The only indicator of that is the outside mirror, which is facing right:
Maybe it’s a good thing that this occurred in front of an auto body shop.
Here are 3 cars making left turns at the same intersection – one away from me and two towards me:
Two blocks away, two vehicles are heading to the right:
Good luck trying to read what’s on the white one (though I DID make out “Watch Your Step” in the lower left).
Going around a corner on a one-way street a block from home – once again, these are all the same black SUV:
Now that wasn’t so bad, was it? If these are “fails”, I don’t wanna pass.
Does anybody else like this stuff? April’s should be a bit more imaginative with maybe a couple of crunchmobiles thrown in.
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