Weekly #835 - The Horseless Carriage Competition

The Horseless Carriage

No Horses Here by davidtrout – Brilliant! This is just the sort of subject that I love to discover and I'm sorry to hear that it's no longer there. The decision has been made to keep it simple and let the subject speak for itself, and it works beautifully.

The Fire Cart by sueriley – Sharp, well exposed and well composed as well within the difficult confines of perhaps some museum or stately home. It fits the brief and is a colourful and pleasing horeseless carriage.

Not the cough you're coffin by tyronet2000 – A difficult subject because of the severe ighting coming from the left. This has led to washing out the image at the left side, but the main body of the carriage does record the blacks extremely well. The other problem is having a wide enough lens to get all of the carriage into the shot, but there's not much we can do about that as we have whatever we have with us at the time. The best that was possible has been made of this.

Sea Tractor III by MikeInDevon – A gorgeous part of the world, and a most unusual carriage, at least one that we would find unusual up here. Good placement in the frame and a very interesting subject make a very interesting image.

Horeseless Advertising by noelcmn – Now that's unusual! When I glanced at the thumbnail it looked a bit like some sort of bubble car, but when looked at full size we find something much more interesting. Photographically, it is very tight in the frame, but where it is might well have dictated that approach to avoid including irrelevant distractions. Nice one.

A One-Cee-Vee by drofmit – a good quality shot of something downright odd. Whatever next? Well done finding this and making it into a great image. There is so much around by way of oddities and I must admit that the interest I had years ago is resurfacing. More things to photograph! I also noticed that this was shot using a Pentax *istDS, proving yet again that we don't necessarily need huge pixel counts to make great pictures.

Not many pictures this time, but good ones nonetheless, so many thanks to all who entered.

It's a tough call, but I'm going to go for a bit of humour this time and declare drofmit as our winner. Well done!

Snapping at his heels for second place is david trout, excellent as always.

Third place goes to MikeInDevon for his very strange horeseless carriage.

So thanks again everyone, and it's over to drofmit to pick up the baton and find us a new competition!

Congratulations drofmit! What an extraordinary car modification!

And to David Trout, that's no a way to 'store' a vehicle.

Thanks John for running the competition, very prompt judging and useful comments, and thanks for the 3rd place!

And what will the next competition be!

Best regards
Mike

Thank you for the win and congratulations to David and Mike….
John, there are now six of these very strange conversions floating around…. I call them Citroën Twizzlers… because of their resemblance to the equally strange Renault Twizzy. This, back then, was the first!
New competition on its way.

Thanks John for rescuing the weekly competition after a shaky start. Not many entries but they were god entries. Congrats to Tim and Mike and thanks for my 2nd place.
David