{"id":16351,"date":"2017-04-30T22:30:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T02:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=16351"},"modified":"2022-05-23T17:08:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:08:20","slug":"2022-mayday-mayday-more-vehicular-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=16351","title":{"rendered":"2022 – Mayday! Mayday! More vehicular weirdness!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This picture has nothing to do with Mayday or vehicular weirdness, but you KNOW I have a reason for including it that will pop up later.<\/span><\/p>\n

So what\u2019s this \u201cMAYDAY!\u201d noise all about? Nothing special\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.I went out on May 1 to try a new angle on this vehicle length\/iPhone\/PANO obsession of mine (good news to anyone who\u2019s sick of this: the end is in sight\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026maybe).<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead of mostly straight-line, flat ground, I decided to try shooting vehicles coming off a highway onto a curving, half-circle, upward ramp. For all you locals, the spot I chose was the Hackensack Avenue north exit off eastbound Route 4 (across from Riverside Square).<\/span><\/p>\n

Ignore most of that because this first pic shows a car going onto the highway from Hackensack Ave (from this point on, click all pix to enlarge):<\/span><\/p>\n

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These 3 show a van-type truck, a red car and a pickup truck:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I wasn\u2019t expecting an obstacle course, but EVERYTHING (trees, signs, sloping ground) is an obstacle when you\u2019re trying to smoothly cover half a circular motion without tripping, tipping or falling.<\/span><\/p>\n

To add to the fun, the driver sees me the entire time I’m aiming my phone at him\/her and is wondering what the hell I\u2019m doing. Beginning to feel self-conscious, I\u2019m mentally yelling at them to keep their eyes on the curving road.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there\u2019s no time to feel uncomfortable as a motorcycle rumbles off the highway into view:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I decided to cross the ramp and get them from the other side:<\/span><\/p>\n

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That got old fast\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.plus, I\u2019m now closer and totally in the way of them viewing oncoming traffic that they have to merge with.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Back to the previous spot to shoot a nice long yellow vehicle:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I decided to get closer to the highway and further from the vehicles:<\/span><\/p>\n

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While I was in that spot, I saw a school bus in the distance coming toward me on the westbound side. I didn\u2019t expect that on a Sunday, but the side of the bus explained why I shouldn’t think that way:<\/span><\/p>\n

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But the best thing about this pic was that I had to quickly switch the pan-direction arrow on the phone from left-to-right to right-to-left to accommodate the bus. Of course, doing that made me hope there wouldn\u2019t be any eastbound traffic because the cars would all get scrunched.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortunately, there was only one such car and look how it came out! Not only was it shrunk, but no wheels\/tires showed up!<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a perfect hovermobile!<\/span><\/p>\n

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OK – it\u2019s explain-the-t-shirt time\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/span><\/p>\n

During my shoot, a VERY unexpected vehicle turned off Rt 4E onto the Hackensack Ave north ramp – something I hadn\u2019t seen in over a decade, but knew right away what it was (and managed to get TWO long shots of it):<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a 1938 Ahrens-Fox fire truck that belongs to the Maywood, NJ, Fire Department. How do I know that?<\/span><\/p>\n

It was part of the Hackensack Columbus Day Parade in 2011 and I took a couple of shots of it in the parade\u2019s staging area two blocks from home (Maywood is immediately west of Hackensack):<\/span><\/p>\n

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That MayDay sighting of an 84-year-old fire truck Mayd the shoot worthwhile.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And to my siblings: Happy 5\/23!<\/span><\/p>\n

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