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Ice Cream Take-Away

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Fri, 17 May 2013 03:22:35 -0700

Taken down in Margate, Kent a few weeks ago and given an HDR treatment.

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The Writing's On The Wall... (Well Amost)

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Fri, 17 May 2013 01:22:28 -0700

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Taken down in Margate in Kent a few weeks ago.

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Crude

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Tue, 07 May 2013 04:33:02 -0700

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An HDR image of an American WW2 Army utility/tow truck engine. I took the mult-shot image at a transport show at Merton Farm in Kent over the weekend. Although it looks like a mono conversion, I've actually desaturated a little and added some tonality in pp to give a 'grimey' appearance.

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Times Gone By

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:48:13 -0700

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A shot taken on a really cold and windy day in Margate, Kent a couple of months or so ago. I took the kids to a retro gaming day at the Winter Gardens and took this shot of the old lido monument. I've added a sepia tint in pp.

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Green For Go

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:24:00 -0700

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Haven't had a chance to use my Sunbeam Alpine much recently due to the rubbish weather so I thought I'd cheer myself up with a studio style image of the car.

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Old Iron

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:57:53 -0700

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A shot of a custom Fordson van called Old Iron that's been around a while but still looks pretty cool.

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'Vette Dream

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 04:45:11 -0700

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A subtle two-tone 1961 Corvette captured at a local car show in 2010.

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Pocket Rocket

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 13:41:51 -0800

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A shot of a Renault Clio V6 taken at Brands Hatch in Kent a couple of years ago. I've removed the background and put my own in to make it a bit more presentable.

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Seaside Special

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:42:39 -0800

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A cracking little two tone VW split screen camper van. It's 60's all the way to the beach!

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The Dark Side

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:04:55 -0800

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A shot of a Maserati GranTurismo with a slight split tone added and a square crop.

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The Moonlit Wood

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:17:31 -0800

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A shot of some mushrooms taken in a local wood which I've given a kind of mystical/magical treatment to in post production. Just needs a fairy or two!

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To The Point

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:16:16 -0800

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This is the top of a metal sculpture/structure in London's Docklands. I don't know anything about it apart from it might have been designed by Anthony Caro. It's a stretched and twisted pyramid shape and quite imposing when walking around the precinct.

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Up In The Clouds

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:01:24 -0800

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A harder edged image from my last posting. This is a view of the Centre Point building in London's West End. It was built between 1963 - 66 being one of London's first skyscrapers and is now a Grade II listed building.

Centre Point was built as speculative office space by property tycoon Harry Hyams, who had leased the site at £18,500 a year for 150 years. Hyams and Seifert engaged in negotiations with the London County Council over the height of the building, which was much taller than would normally be allowed and was highly controversial; eventually he was allowed to build 32 floors in return for providing a new road junction between St Giles Circus, Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, which the LCC could not afford to build on its own. Hyams intended that the whole building be occupied by a single tenant.

The building was designed by Richard Seifert with engineers Pell Frischmann and was constructed by Wimpey Construction from 1963 to 1966.[5] It is 117 m (385 ft) high, has 34 floors[6] and 27,180 m2 (292,563 sq ft) of floor space.

On completion, the building remained empty for many years. With property prices rising and most business tenancies taken for set periods of 10 or 15 years, Hyams could afford to keep it empty and wait for his single tenant at the asking price of £1,250,000; he was challenged to allow tenants to rent single floors but consistently refused. The prominent nature of the building led to it becoming a symbol of greed in the property industry. Some campaigners demanded that the government of Edward Heath should intervene and take over the building, and at one point in June 1972 Peter Walker (then Secretary of State for the Environment) offered £5 million for the building. Eventually Hyams agreed to let the building by floors but the arrangements were stalled.

A more intriguing speculation was that the government was paying Hyams "a heavy but secret subsidy to keep it empty" for its own purposes. Various conspiracy theories circulated about what those purposes might be. One common theme was that since the building was 100% air-conditioned (a rarity in London at that time), and sited over Tottenham Court Road tube station and its deep tube lines, this would somehow make it useful to the government in the event of nuclear war.[citation needed]

Since July 1980, the building has been the headquarters of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). In 1995 Centre Point became a Grade II listed building. Noted architecture critic Nikolaus Pevsner described Centre Point as "coarse in the extreme". In 2009, the building won the Concrete Society's Mature Structures Award.

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Hippy Daze

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:40:19 -0800

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Looking around the hard drive for a bit of inspiration and I came across this creation that I did last summer. A fusion of a guitar, flowers and tree trunk that resulted in a bit of a 1960's hippy type image. Far out!!

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Dark Days

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:39:03 -0800

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I took this shot yesterday morning on my usual dog walk. I've photographed this lone tree standing in a wheat field many times but it always grants me something a little different each time.

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I N T E R C E P T O R

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:07:49 -0800

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A shot of a Jensen Interceptor III taken at a car show in Whitstable, Kent. The original model was introduced in 1966 but this particular model would have been made between 1971-76. Although the car was British, it was powered by an American Chrysler V8 (330bhp 7212cc in this version) which had a top speed of around 135mph. I had to clone out another car in the background and I've used subtle HDR to bring out the detail a little.

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Pickmeup

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:49:02 -0800

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A shot of a split-screen VW pickup taken at the Hempstead Valley car show in 2011. The texture is by kind permission of 'HeedingtheMuses' www.flickr.com/photos/nancee_art/8367295890/in/contacts/ which I've altered slightly in post production.

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Old Skool

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:51:21 -0800

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A 1950's custom Ford Anglia complete with roof chop and Wolfrace wheels taken at the Sittingbourne Rod & Custom show in 2011.

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Winter's Delicate Offering

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 01:49:49 -0800

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I thought I'd try out my new Christmas nifty fifty 1.8D lens out in the garden and this is the first shot taken with it. This is a dead Hydrangea head which I didn't cut back in autumn, as I wanted to take pictures of them in winter as I love the delicate petals and muted tones.

Hope everyone enjoyed the New Year celebrations. ;^)

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German Flair

nobody@flickr.com (alpine64andy) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:39:16 -0800

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The original model Audi TT which I have a real soft spot for and think this is still the best looking model in its range. I had the pleasure of driving a soft-top version and it went like a little rocket on rails!!

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