Photographs and commentary by Dick Snoke
A trip with the North Georgia Photography Club. More commentary following the pictures. The pictures are in the order they were taken. There is no significance to that ordering.
This place eccentric, to say the least. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 4000 cars scattered over 30 acres among the trees, remains of buildings, and who knows what all. Along with the cars is a very wide variety of “other stuff”: old toys, farm equipment, motorcycles, buses, travel trailers, old stoves, and on and on. And none of it is for sale, even the parts.
Not being much of a car buff, I don’t find much joy in pictures of whole cars, new or old. I much prefer the closeups of hood ornaments, headlights, etc. I also looked around for whatever else I could find, of which there was plenty.
Technical details are included with each picture. Just click on the i to see it. All these were taken using a Nikon D7500. I started with a f.18 35 mm lens, and I also used a f3.5 85 mm macro lens. I could have one of those on the camera and the other in my jacket pocket, and so I didn’t have to take off the backpack. That made me much more nimble without passing up any shots.
I chose not to use a tripod. I did have both tripods in the truck with me, but elected not to haul one through the tangle of cars. In retrospect, I probably should have put the light tripod on the backpack so it was available in a few of the shots. Could have done a lot lower ISO if I had camera support.
All these pictures were shot in raw format and processed with Affinity Photo. A few required tone mapping, but most have a bit of cropping and minor adjustments to saturation and contrast.