A Digital Inland Empire

Ford Park, Redlands

jamielcurtis — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:16:08 +0000

Ford Park, Redlands

jamielcurtis — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:14:23 +0000

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Regional Park, Yucaipa

jamielcurtis — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:12:24 +0000

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The Rails Go Ever On…

chattybastard — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:03:46 +0000

Rolling, rolling, rolling...

Once upon a time, doubled steel lines girded the length and breadth of this nation, and wrought-iron carriages steamed along them from one end of the country to another, carrying people of all classes and walks of life, carrying letters, carrying cargo and innumerable other things. Once upon a time, America was a nation of railroads, and the social interplay that occurred on them sparked friendships that crossed the boundaries of distance and circumstance. Today, our nation’s remaining rail-lines are suborned to massive freight-hauling. Is this a good thing? A bad thing? And what does this mean for the Inland Empire?
Taken by me, with my Nikon Coolpix L5.

The Transience Of Love

chattybastard — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:56:19 +0000

Pic related.

This was written on the sidewalk outside of a church near my home. I didn’t have my camera with me when I found it, but by god I went back and got the camera for the purpose of recording this. It’s a good thing I did, too. This message is gone, now, whether worn away by the tread of shoes, or washed away by a groundskeeper. Let’s hope the feelings it records will last a little longer than their visible expression.
Taken by me, with my Nikon Coolpix L5.

Lego-Shaped Blocks of Coke

chattybastard — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:51:23 +0000

No, not the white kind. Where do you think I've been, Columbia?

So! Moving away from the dearlordIhatethatcamerasomuchIwishIcouldburnitwithfire VistaQuest VQ515, we’re back into ‘Things I Ran Into While Wandering Around’. These were dumped out along the back of a convenience store. It looks like someone came along and started playing around with them, making them into various shapes. I found that very amusing.
Taken by me, with my sweet, sweet, glad-to-have-it-back Nikon Coolpix L5.

Interstates And Old Cars

chattybastard — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:57:01 +0000

This is the last of the pictures from the Riverside airshow. Next up, I’ll be dipping into the shots I’ve snapped around town during my subsequent wanderings. No more math and no more lectures on age and longevity for this shot.
Taken by me, with that devil-sent VistaQuest VQ515.

Assorted Dirty Car Pictures

chattybastard — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:52:59 +0000

Okay, maybe these aren't so dirty. They're actually rather shiny.

Just a couple more shots of these beauties, and a little math. It has been 81 years, folks, that’s 45 million, seven-hundred-twenty-seven-thousand, two hundred minutes, and 2 billion, seven hundred forty three million, six-hundred-thirty-two-hundred-thousand seconds, since that Model T rolled off the assembly line. In that span of time, the population of the United States has grown by two hundred million people. Of the over one hundred million – 100,000,000 – people alive when this car first hit the road, a scant few thousand are left, today. Of the Model T’s, numbers are likewise dwindling. But if you take good care of yourself, there’s no reason that you can’t live to see 2100. Like cars, people need proper care. Give it to yourself, and, well…
You might end up like this Model T. You see that picture at the lower right? That’s the original engine, in there.
Taken by me, with that spawn of Yog-Soggoth, the VistaQuest VQ515. Collaging done with the Gnu Image Manipulation Program. I also had to digitally edit my finger out of the upper-right-hand picture, which was also done with the Gnu IMP. GIMP is property of its creators.

Model T & A

chattybastard — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:35:22 +0000

This is a 1924 Model T and a 1931 Model A. I was able to view both of these cars up-close and photograph them during the Riverside airshow. Their owners are great ol’ guys with good senses of humor, and they both belong to unfathomably-old-car clubs. I was heretofore unaware that the Inland Empire had a Model T & A Club. I wonder if they had to buy that name from some seedy joint in San Bernardino…?
Taken by me, with that inexcusably-bad VistaQuest VQ515.

VVv

chattybastard — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:42:09 +0000

Caaaaaaaaaaaaaar...

This is a corvette. I wish I could say it was my corvette, but I do not own a corvette. My attempts to purchase this one with five dollars and a really crappy camera came to naught.
Taken by me, with that worthless VistaQuest VQ515. I can’t blame the guy for not wanting this camera, really.