Found on some farm land is this magnificent old work truck…
After some careful examination, I can decipher that the door once had R&R Well & Pump written on it. This angle allows us to see all of the bizarre looking equipment, as well as the rust. R&R is still in business in my home town.
The same image in B&W with a different angle has a dramatic feel.
If you have an interest in some really fine photography, check out Michael Glover’s blog at Justshoot.me
Very nice. The B&W photo is so dramatic.
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Thanks Neil!
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This is an awesome distraction from my search for the perfect promo package items. That truck is amazing! Both pictures are kind of fearsome. I love the angle on all the equipment and the way it looks incredibly dilapidated in the black & white.
Brings to mind burly, dirty men who work fiercely, and love the same way. And an oil well fire or two….
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You know you crack me up, right? Burly men are one thing. The fine and appreciative woman who wait for them at home are something else again.
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I aim to please. 😀 But coming from one of the women who wait at home, the burly men are yummy.
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I think I love you.
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Aww Mike, you’re such a sweetheart. *kisses your cheek*
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Awesome. I love these … especially the black and white (but, I tend to have an affinity for B&W). Great shots. 😀
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Thanks!
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This is really nice work, Michael. I love the different perspective that the black and white photo provides. This looks so like some of the depression era photo’s we see, but I believe this truck was still in service in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s, even though the truck might be a 1930’s vintage vehicle. I am probably wrong, here.
It would be nice to have a story to go along with the picture.
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Sorry, no story as that would involve work. I just wonder what year this truck might be?
Thank you Bob.
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Read the description too quickly and thought you were trying to pass this heap of junk off as Rolls Royce (“RR”). Reminds me a trip to the opticians is overdue.
Both are great shots but the mono swings it for me Mike.
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And for me too Adrian, but I needed to show the rust and equipment.Thanks bro.
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LOL Adrian
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this truck is gorgeous….I can only imagine how fine it looked when it was new. I love the shape of the grill.
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Hi E! You were gone for awhile. Glad you are back. I think the truck is really beautiful, and I love how strong it looks with all the equipment.
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Yes! Family trip up north. The truck rocks!!
E.
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A very interesting truck Mike and really well captured. These old trucks all had faces and this one’s face with the turned down bumper looks particularly sad and in need of someone to love and care for it. If I could afford the shipping fees.. better not go there. The black and white shot is really nice.
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Thanks chill. Left there to rust and rot, that truck will melt into the earth. I would like to see it restored too.
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Interesting how the drama changes between the two shots. I like the warmth of the rust in the colour photo, it’s very friendly and comfortable.
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Nice, a vote for the color shot! I like them both, but what I really like are intelligent Scottish women.
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Cars are like people. The young ones are beautiful a beauty that shows very nicely on photos, the old ones show no longer that young beauty but instead a weathered character. In that respect both these photos are fine portraits with the color photograph being my favorite.
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Beautifully expressed Joseph. So you and I both are like old cars in that respect. I’m still running and refuse to stop.
Thank you sir.
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Yes, but what do you run on. It ain’t no gasoline for this boy, no sirree, modern and running on alcohol, don’t use much either to keep on running.
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These are awesome Man! I want to drive one of these clunkers over the edge brotha! Hey, there is tribute to you on my blog today 🙂
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I’ll go over the edge with you Mike, but first I’ll see what your blog says…..
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Tell me about it and I’ll take the photos!
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Joseph, you are volunteering to record our mutual demise? That is really great of you! LOL.
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Someone ought to do this. I am sure we can make this go viral. triple lol. Sorry couldn’t stop myself from getting involved.
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Joseph man I so welcome you to be involved. I want to go out from eating too much dim sum and noodles. That you may record, and also please line up the Chinese restaurants in Vancouver. Death by dim sum.
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I think is Rust & Rust, Smell and Bump. 🙂
Nice shot! Mike.
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Cool. Thank you.
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Hey! I see you finally bought a truck to help you carry all those old doors into your basement dungeon, very nice! LOL. I’m kidding, very nice photos, the black and white one is awesome.
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I would like to show you my basement dungeon, Marielba. I have HBO there. I would love to own that old truck. I think it kicks butt.
🙂
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Great images Michael! The older trucks and cars always seem to exude a lot of character that newer vehicles can’t touch. Very interesting find!
Thanks so much for the link to my blog! Your friendship and support mean a lot to me!
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My pleasure Michael. You do GREAT work.
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I love old trucks! I did a whole series of an old fire engine and another of an old pick up, but no one except me liked them! Glad I’mm not the only crazy person. Doesn’t it seem to you that they are watching you while you are shooting them?
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I always think the objects of my camera’s attention know I’m there. Just a feeling I get. I like you.
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You’ve outdone yourself (again!) with these two beauties, Mike! I really kike the contrasty B/W…but being a lover of rust, my vote is for the color…BTW, back when I worked on “The Blues Brothers”, I was mistakenly ordered to ‘rust down’ Cab Calloway’s vehicle. Did a beautiful job, with vinyl paints and sponges…looked pretty much like your color shot…and the next morning on location, I was told by John Landis, the director, to clean it up. A couple gallons of kerosene, some Tide, lots of Windex and in a few hours, it was shiny clean. That’s how I met the great Cab Calloway, who wanted to help but could not (union rules), so he hung out with me the whole time!
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Aren’t you the interesting one! I knew you had a background in the film industry but didn’t know about anything specific. Pretty cool!
Yeah, I like the B&W image but had to post that beautiful rust.
Thanks my friend.
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Worked them all, Mike…film, video, theatre, display. I written produced and directed videos–mostly corporate things…I worked (at his request) three times with/for the late Oliver Smith, the grandad of all Broadway designers…hard to remember how many “stars” I’ve worked with…but my favorite of all time was Itzhak Perlman, the violinist–a truly beautiful human being!
It’s been an interesting life…and you are a contributor! Thanks, from ME, on the very last day of my 65th year on this, our beloved Earth!
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So that means you are either about to kill yourself or its your birthday tomorrow. I’m hoping its the birthday option! Will try to remember that, but if I don’t…..happy birthday, you, my friend with no name, but lots of heart and talent.
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Oh, thanks so! Yeah, the b’day is the only option!
Taking myself down into the ‘City of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, Mayor’ (UGH!) to shoot at the Lincoln Park Conservatory (plants, flowers) and a short walk south to the Lincoln Park Zoo (animals, people–sometimes the same thing).
As for ’66’, nothing to celebrate…moving right along!
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And I be moving right along with you….have fun birthday girl!
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Thanks, kiddo! You are some kind of man, I just have to say…pity we didn’t meet years ago, but so happy we met now!
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My pleasure, I insist.
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What is that…”insist we much”? You are too cool, Mike!
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Both are lovely shots, Mike. The B&W really is my fav though. Very nice find! 🙂
Getting things sorted out for the trip??
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I take the rig in at 10 am tomorrow. If its a quick fix and I get it back tomorrow, then we decide on one of two places to go for Fri and Sat. I f not we go the following week. I was stressed yesterday, not so today. Its all good, and I am lucky to have a cyber world of blogging friends, like you.
Thank you.
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Awww, well we’re all lucky to have one as dear as you! I’m very happy your stress level is down today! 🙂 I do hope it’s a quick fix and you’re off to a good couple of days.
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Thanks my friend.
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😀 My pleasure
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What a lovely old trucks… I loved these photographs… they are both so impressive… Thank you dear Mike, I am afraid it doesn’t work anymore… is it? Love, nia
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No Nia, that truck died decades ago. Nobody has yet told me how old it is, I think someone said from the 30’s?
Thank you dear friend.
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WOW! It is almost a history now… but I am glad standing there as a sculpture… No body took any part of this truck… you know nothing could have been remained after all… You are welcome dear Mike, Thanks and Love, nia
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Hey, Mike, I’m on the fence … love them both! Thanks for referring us to Michael Lewis Glover at JustShoot.Me. 🙂
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Cool comment about Michael Glover. You are very welcome.
You are on the fence and I was close to the fence when I took them. I like them both.
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🙂
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Great! I wonder how the company would react if that old rig mysteriously reappeared at their front door overnight! hehe 🙂
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I wonder if the property it was on, which is in a town close to mine, doesn’t belong to the current owner of the company. Perhaps a descendant.
How old do you guess it is?
The company would have a real reaction if there was a skeleton inside of it when it presents itself!
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I love the fact that you developed this image in both black and white and color. If you carefully study the black and white image you can see the deep mysterious story screaming at you, where as the rusty vehicle tells a completely different tale. Both are good, the black and white immensely better. Nicely done!
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I am a big fan of B&W, so I hear you. Thanks for taking the time to comment. Look for some more B&W posts.
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hi and thanks for you like on my photographic post. I love your blog!! and your black and white pics, Im now following you and would love to have another photographer follow me…I post a photo every day that I hope brings a smile anyone who needs one…cheers chris bernasconi
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Done!
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The black and white rocks it! Oh my, I just noticed all tires are flat! How cool is that??? I can almost see this making an appearance in Disney’s “Cars.”
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The tires are all flat and there are still hand tools in a bin, that must have been there for the last 50 years. Its like an outdoor museum piece. Modern art.
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Nicely done. I’m partial to the B/W shot.
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Thanks. That certainly seems to be the consensus.
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Love this truck! What personality! Love both shots.
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Thanks Patricia!
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Hi Mike,
Really great shots. Have you ever considered Sepia? That might work out nicely for such an old truck, too.
Best regards from southern Texas,
Pit
P.S.: Here’s one of mine in Sepia [http://fc-foto.de/16167905]
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Sepia and I go way back. Thanks for the peek.
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You’re welcome!
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That’s one big ass rooster you got there Pit.
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Well, Luckenbach/TX is not only Waylon and Willie and the Boys. 😉
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I liked those ‘outlaws’. Had that music in the 70’s.
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HBO AND a dungeon? I think I love you. 😀
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LOL!!
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*grins*
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I love this old stuff, Nice photo.
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Thanks David.
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whoa. did you see my recent post of an old rusty truck? are we twins, separated at birth?
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If we might be twins, than I am younger than I thought which is very consistent with how I feel 🙂
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ah, yes, i see the age difference, creates a kink in my twin idea doesn’t it?
goodnight from plucky umbrella who is on east coast time…
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And good night from mountain zone time, you night owl.
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Love this contrast. And love old trucks like this. Wanna climb inside & all over it, inspecting…
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c’mon.
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