There’s still a week left to check out those prints hanging at Rhodo’s Café in Courtenay… there were two themes, Vintage Colour and Perspective.

And of course, Vintage Colour is the perfect excuse to head off to Shields Industrial to check out that collection of fire trucks, old buses, trucks and automobiles that are scattered around the property and hiding in the blackberries…

Special Deluxe is an old Buick, from the late 50s… I like what the weather has done to the colours, while the chrome still catches your eye. I played around with the print size… I liked this one that emphasises the length of the hood… kinda like those Sunday drives in your grandpas car, or one of those cars your dad drove when you were little… no seat belts and three or four kids in the back seat holding on to that strap that ran behind the front seats.

Special Deluxe

Smilin’ Vee is the hood of one of the fire trucks parked in a line along the border of the property… I like the simplicity of the print… while it still shows off the textures to the faded paint. And I’m sure that this truck has many stories to tell if it could!

Smilin' Vee

A Matter of Perspective was an attempt to catch reactions to one of the exhibits at the Vancouver Art Gallery… the security guard kept trying to move me along, so I had to keep coming back to try and catch some visual reactions… women seem to have a different perspective than men when looking at this artwork.

A Matter of Perspective These hangings at Rhodo’s, with the monthly themes are ones I try to work with… when I get busy with other things, I always make sure I shoot something for the upcoming themes… we have them six months ahead… and it forces me to print at least three prints. And there are always prints that don’t make the wall… either not enough room or I don’t like what I’ve ended up with on paper.

I really like the colours on the hood of the fire truck in Shades and the colours reflected in the chrome International label. But the out of focus parking lights get in the way… next time I’m back, I’ll shoot some different images. A friend, Laura Tait, has a different shot of the same truck hanging close to mine… check it out as well.

On The Landing is a print I’m going to continue to work on… I’ve tried it in both black and white and colour… and the colours make it a different print… I like how there are two stories in the image, I have three different versions of the pair on the top landing… and I want to lighten it up a bit, so their faces are showing…I like how the stairs frame the print… and lead you up to the top landing. This one was the same, I couldn’t set up my tripod… and the security guard kept trying to move me along… but there was no traffic coming down the stairs or wandering in the hallways.

On The Landing