I have about a hundred pix that scroll through when the screen saver goes active. I bet you folks have some pretty cool pix saved on your 'puter too. Here is a baker's dozen of my favorites (in no particular order):
My current one, shamelessly taken from this forum……. My favourite photos are those with just two main colours, - this fits that.
I keep the same one until I find something I like bette and I've had this one over a year. I met Rich Guasco at a gas station in Bakesrfield about 10 years ago. A cooler dude I have never met.
most of mine are not car related. my Chevy is "photo-dropped" in the pic, the low rider family is from a magazine ad.
I randomly catch the guys at work staring at my Screensaver scroll with great interest. Nothing but B&W pics I scavenged from here and elsewhere. Keep's the stress of the day at bay.
1932 Phaeton So Cal style (old cold winter photo) Hello, So, why is the topic a “screen saver pix” and not one photo is located on anyone’s laptop or home computer or even a tablet? It is not a screen saver photo until one puts it on the screen. A simple process by going to settings and display. Now, the choice is yours, so take a photo of your favorite car and put in on the laptop/home computer screen as the topic says… not just random photos posted like the other threads. This one shows a specific topic. Then take a photo of your own laptop/home computer/tablet and show how it looks on the item specific. One of my favorite photos was taken on a cold December morning deep into So Cal, near the snow covered local mountains. The difference from our coastal apartment to this location was night and day. Sure, it was cold and our leather jackets kept us warm. But, it was pure luck that I had an extra heavy weight sweater in the sedan delivery to keep me from freezing. Yes, gloves were worn, but it is difficult to push the camera shutter button with gloves on. So, my hand was exposed to take the photos in, what I call…”freezing temperatures.” As the morning wore on, it still was “freezing” but, I managed to get some good color photos. Aren’t normal photos for magazines color? Well, yes. It is a standard item since we all want a color cover shot or a centerspread two page enlargement poster in the middle of the magazine. But, when I mentioned the preliminary photo to the editors, they said there is no color other than the red interior. The results speak for themselves… Then many years later, I decided to put that photo on my old laptop at the time. Color or black and white? At first, the black and white version was used on my laptop home screen. It was the similar photo, but gave a good contrast on my black laptop sitting on my table. But, then is the color photo of the same angle better? Note: So, the style of the open Phaeton was the attractive point to begin with in the build or are there other 1932 options? In 1932, FoMoCo assembled 5,251 Phaetons worldwide, compared to a total production of 322,962 vehicles, which equates to less than 2 percent. So, does that make it a rare choice or does a 1932 Ford Woody Station Wagon become the rare item for the hot rod build? “A mere 1,383 Station Wagons were produced, of which only 331 were V-8 Model 18s—thus making it the rarest 1932 V-8 Ford offering. Finished on the same, 106 inch wheelbase chassis as all of the other Deuces, the Woodie Wagons were produced at Ford's Iron Mountain, Michigan factory. Using timber from Michigan's hardy, old growth forests, these wagons were both beautiful in their richly grain wood sides and practical in the multi-row seating and spacious storage capacity.” One just has to like the 1932 model as a starting point for the creative build… Jnaki When I took this colorful, but cold day photo, it was a long time coming. At the time the 32 Ford was the most sought after hot rod body style and for me, this one was the best of the best. I had a preliminary photo of the phaeton that I showed the editors of several magazines. They all looked, said how nice and moved on to the next project. So, which one was going to feature the color shot when I presented the final written photographic journal? I took my time finishing up the whole presentation and tried to see several outcomes. Color or black and white. Which photo showed the most color, despite being grey and white. They liked the red interior and perhaps they would use that color shot to showcase the aspect of “color.” I had details to enhance the article, so perhaps that would help in the selection. Thanks, J. It was not my choice, but the final article was an inside color page with additional photos for a great looking photo-journal display. Sorry to say, the rest of the color slides and other b/w photos are gone. We moved several times since the original photos were taken. Those boxed up photos/slides got lost in the shuffle… Those slides were given to the magazine and now they are gone, too. So, this is all that was left of a very nicely built 1932 Ford Phaeton from So Cal… a very cold So Cal.
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