All alone on the overpass ...

[Owain Shaw]

Hola!

From the badlands of the Nottingham ring-road comes ... this.

Moonrise over abandoned hoover, Nottingham:
http://frome.digitalbrain.com/frome/accounts/pupils/owains/web/Uni/Le-Hoovre.jpg?backto=/frome/accounts/pupils/owains/web/Uni/

C and/or C most welcome ...

Owain.

[canonloader]

Maybe the Hoover was just out for a walk. :)

[stathunter]

well that sucks :)

[joayne]

^^ LOL :)

[BottomBracket]

Lol, you get an A for cheekiness :)

[Owain Shaw]

Maybe the Hoover was just out for a walk. :)

Well, pretty much. There is a story of how it came to be there ...

well that sucks :)

Ironic Sadface.

[acchildress]

I like this. But what caught my eye first was the sign that is oof. Then I realized it if across the street. but the juxtaposition (is that the word I'm looking for?) is great.

So tell us the story.

[marcdpalmer]

ha ha class one.

[Mike-DT6]

Great capture! :-)

I expect the owner was a couple of miles away, unreeling the extension lead! :lol:

Mike

[Owain Shaw]

I like this. But what caught my eye first was the sign that is oof. Then I realized it if across the street. but the juxtaposition (is that the word I'm looking for?) is great.

So tell us the story.

That sign has always been a slight distraction I was unhappy with but, couldn't avoid ... without cloning. f/2.8 @ 100mm doesn't do much when your subject is entirely confined to the infinity symbol on the focus ring ...

I'm not sure about juxtaposition, at least I don't see what the opposition is between but, maybe you see something I don't ...

The story goes that I originally acquired (not to be confused, under any circumstances, with purchasing ...) the hoover for the purpose of another entirely different photograph but, I ended up using a kettle for that instead, so I just had the hoover lying around and having struggled to house a door and a kitchen sink from earlier projects, there wasn't going to be room or a welcoming parent willing to accomodate this hoover when I took my belongings back home from University for the summer.

So, I did what any responsible person would do, I borrowed a medium format camera and took a couple films of the hoover in various places around Nottingham, eventually ending up on the overpass. Where I had to leave it one night, unable to cross the remaining two lanes of traffic ... and having failed to realise there was a pedestrian tunnel just down the road. I went back every day and night for a while and it was still there on the last night before I returned home for summer, when this picture was taken ... That is the story, in Balamory.

Thank you everyone with the kind words ...

[amckenzie4]

Very nice! (The story is good, too!)

[acchildress]

The juxtaposition for me is that the hoover is not something one usually sees on the side of the highway/motorway.

[Owain Shaw]

The juxtaposition for me is that the hoover is not something one usually sees on the side of the highway/motorway.

Ahh, genau!

Thanks again to everyone,

Owain.