This Tin Snail was tucked away in a corner in a French village. Because of the dry climate you can see them there a lot and they remain in good condition. By the position of the headlights it seems to muse about the good old days.
At first I thought I was going to do the photo in black and white, but by playing with the colours a bit I saw that the colours of the car matched very well with the colours of the wall and the so characteristic colours of the shutters in front of the windows.
I think this work would do very nicely on the wall of nostalgic car fans. Or with a Francophile like me....
I came this close to not being involved in photography. My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic, with the biggest parallax error you could wish for! So I always had pictures of people without heads. I used these cassettes with 12 or 24 photos, black and white (that.. Read more…