Check out Back to the Future
in our other blog, Abstract Reflections.
Dogs Looking For Homes(DLFH).
Copyright © 2009 by Preston Surface. All Rights Reserved.
Check out Back to the Future
in our other blog, Abstract Reflections.
Dogs Looking For Homes(DLFH).
Copyright © 2009 by Preston Surface. All Rights Reserved.

A beautiful paint job on a cool 1960 Chevrolet Corvette at the car show.
Check out the Hot Yellow Classic Chevy
at our other photoblog, Abstract Reflections.
Copyright © 2009 by Anna Surface. All Rights Reserved.
Dogs Looking For Homes(DLFH).
Copyright © 2009 by Preston Surface. All Rights Reserved.

I hope everyone (USA) had an enjoyable and safe Fourth of July weekend. We went to a small town carnival and car show at the Wamego, Kansas city park. This is an annual event. There was more of a crowd around the beautiful classic cars instead of the carnival rides. The carnival wasn’t like it used to be where all the rides were filled with lines of people waiting. Many of the rides would sit empty for awhile and maybe one or two would take a spin. The tickets for per ride was $3.00! Preston and I bought two tickets to ride the Ferris Wheel. I don’t care to ride any rides, even the Ferris Wheel, but up we went, the only customers with our cameras in hand. I found it hard to concentrate while spinning backwards swinging way up high while trying to snap shots. I got photos of equipment, poles and bolts up close. One bolted pole was wrapped in Duct tape that I had taken a very good picture of… and I wonder what that held!

I was a good distance away when I took this shot. The weather was cloudy and overcast having rained and stormed the night before.

I noticed a good number of people, children too, going barefoot.

These two enjoyed this ride so much, they took it several times and they were the only cumstomers.

While in the Ferris Wheel, I took shots of the town, Wamego, Kansas. I slightly posterized the photo.
For another view of this scene, see Small Town Carnival at our other photoblog, Abstract Reflections. I’ll be posting digital photographic art of classic cars and carousel horses at Abstract Reflections for the next several weeks.
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Anna and I took pictures and video at the Wamego, KS park on the afternoon of the 4th of July. There was a huge car show. This photo of the DeSoto was taken in full daylight with many people around it. In processing, I did my best to showcase only the car.
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North of Harveyville, Kansas is a nonexistent town called Bradford on a country road. Perhaps this town was settled long ago because of a railroad and the Dragoon Creek but now abandoned with truly only the name to remain. There is what appears to be one lived-in house and rural decay on a property where a trailer burnt to the ground along with an old blue car. The creek is filled with debris that will not decompose and with a sign stating dumping not allowed.
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One of the many old cars found in Vermillion, Kansas, and with this junk car… what is left resting against the trees.
See the abstract rendition, Painted Junk Car, at our other photoblog, Abstract Reflections.
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I believe the cars of long ago had a lot more character than the ones of today. Now-a-days vehicles are broken down into categories such as sedan, mini-van, SUV, and truck. Other than the category they are in, they all look the same.
Dogs Looking For Homes(DLFH).
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