Josh, thank you for including my image. This was a very fun project and I’m so impressed with the all of the submissions. Thank you for organizing this and hope to collaborate on another project soon.
🤣 “No easy task” that is true. For the past few days I’ve been saying to myself “what did I commit myself to?” but, it was worth it.
Now back to writing the architectural photography class I’ve been asked to give, finishing my article on a neo formalist architecture in the Bay Area, getting more photo walks listed on my website, finishing my printed reflections guide for my weekend photo walk, etc. You wouldn’t know I left the busyness of the corporate world a few months back!
I was gifted a Pentax K1000 in 1982 and days later landed in London when I was in 8th grade. Immediately I ran out into the middle of the street and photographed a black "Magnum PI" Ferrari. I came home and that was the only image I had enlarged into an 8x12. The small prints went into a scrapbook that's probably not around anymore. That 8x12 is still in the same frame my grandmother handmade for that photo. I looked for it to include in my blog post for Car Week. I think I gifted it to a friend when I downsized to live full-time on a sailboat and travel full-time. It's funny that a car photo started my love of photography and I'm still shooting something every day. Mostly birds from the cockpit of my home.
Thank you for organizing this Josh, and for including my post. I now have another 10 or so tabs open with posts that I need to go investigate a bit more, but just seeing the highlight pictures here in your compilation, I was not wrong to expect that some talented photographers were participating in this.
Thank you, Josh! You managed to pull all this together and we are off to a great start. I have enjoyed reading and viewing everyone's photographs and stories. Many thanks for doing this and delivering great results!
I've also realised that cars can be hard to photograph and I was finding a sameness to my images that was frustrating me.
I've made what seems to me to be an obvious pivot: I'm now working on making portraits of the car owners with their cars.
It gives me the opportunity to chat with them about why they have that car - there's usually a good story - and I think I have been able to capture some of the passion and pride these folks have for their cars.
And there's an almost endless supply to photograph.
Thank you so much for inviting me to such a wonderful event. I am looking forward to reading the articles written by the other participants. I can only imagine how much hard work it must have been to organize a project like this. I truly admire your passion and dedication.
I am new to this process on Substack - is car week over? I received a notice from Todd Takes Picture and Aminus3, and I'd like to share some. Please advise
Thanks for the mention, Josh, and for organizing this: your idea has prompted some brilliant posts!
Josh, thank you for including my image. This was a very fun project and I’m so impressed with the all of the submissions. Thank you for organizing this and hope to collaborate on another project soon.
I'm by no means a car photographer or even a photographer, but my wife's 2013 Jaguar XJL emblem just begged to be photographed.
Thank you for curating all of this! No easy task.
So many wonderful images! So many cool cars!
🤣 “No easy task” that is true. For the past few days I’ve been saying to myself “what did I commit myself to?” but, it was worth it.
Now back to writing the architectural photography class I’ve been asked to give, finishing my article on a neo formalist architecture in the Bay Area, getting more photo walks listed on my website, finishing my printed reflections guide for my weekend photo walk, etc. You wouldn’t know I left the busyness of the corporate world a few months back!
I was gifted a Pentax K1000 in 1982 and days later landed in London when I was in 8th grade. Immediately I ran out into the middle of the street and photographed a black "Magnum PI" Ferrari. I came home and that was the only image I had enlarged into an 8x12. The small prints went into a scrapbook that's probably not around anymore. That 8x12 is still in the same frame my grandmother handmade for that photo. I looked for it to include in my blog post for Car Week. I think I gifted it to a friend when I downsized to live full-time on a sailboat and travel full-time. It's funny that a car photo started my love of photography and I'm still shooting something every day. Mostly birds from the cockpit of my home.
Thank you for organizing this Josh, and for including my post. I now have another 10 or so tabs open with posts that I need to go investigate a bit more, but just seeing the highlight pictures here in your compilation, I was not wrong to expect that some talented photographers were participating in this.
Thanks for the mention, Josh. It’s amazing how much emotion people have tied up in automobiles, but it is undeniable. This is a fun topic to explore.
Thank you, Josh! You managed to pull all this together and we are off to a great start. I have enjoyed reading and viewing everyone's photographs and stories. Many thanks for doing this and delivering great results!
Thanks Josh. It’s been fun to see car’s interpreted. Thanks for including mine.
Thanks for the mention Josh.
I've also realised that cars can be hard to photograph and I was finding a sameness to my images that was frustrating me.
I've made what seems to me to be an obvious pivot: I'm now working on making portraits of the car owners with their cars.
It gives me the opportunity to chat with them about why they have that car - there's usually a good story - and I think I have been able to capture some of the passion and pride these folks have for their cars.
And there's an almost endless supply to photograph.
A few examples: https://planbphotography.com.au/drivers/
What a great idea! I added this to the Car Week post.
Thanks for the mention, Josh, and many thanks for organizing Car Week. I’m going to be kept very busy reading all of the posts.
Thank you so much for inviting me to such a wonderful event. I am looking forward to reading the articles written by the other participants. I can only imagine how much hard work it must have been to organize a project like this. I truly admire your passion and dedication.
Thanks for the mention Josh! Love the different ways people see cars :)
Thanks for the mention Josh. Come to think of it, I think cars and coffee is on today. I’m going to take a spin over that way and see if it is.
What a lovely collection you’ve gathered here, bookmarked to read in full later.
Thank you for the initiative, Josh, and for the mention. Quite interesting to see the diversity of approaches on the topic.
I am new to this process on Substack - is car week over? I received a notice from Todd Takes Picture and Aminus3, and I'd like to share some. Please advise
Share a link and I’ll add to my post. Follow A - 3 ‘s instructions to alert him. I’m not sure if he’s still updating his