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Patina is the value that age puts on an object.
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Form, which should be the clean - cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic. - Raymond Loewy
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My daddy bought this car before I was born Sure like the radio, I love the horn I love the great big shiny steerin' wheel Here in my daddy's Oldsmobile - Hal Ketchum
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The California poppy is a cup of gold; it holds the sunshine. – Luther Burbank
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Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light. - Leonardo da Vinci
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Palm trees, always palm trees.
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Balloon glow.
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"I don't press the shutter. The image does, and it's like being gently clobbered." – Diane Arbus
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"What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?”
– Julia Margaret Cameron
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"Just think of lovely things. And your heart will fly on wings" - Jule Styne and Comden and Green
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Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more. - Elliott Erwitt
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"It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them." - David Hockney Well I can't paint but I have a camera...and the palm trees are hard to miss.
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It doesn’t cost any more to make something pretty. — Jaguar Cars founder Sir William Lyons
#classic cars#photographers on tumblr#automotivephotography#black and white photography#jaguar#cars#car photography
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1957 Buick abstract
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