"Rear Window - '53 Dodge B Series Pickup"
Another view of this relic of a truck, which I spotted last Saturday while shooting the first photo of this series. That image is of a storage rack for boats at one of the nearby boatyards owned by Treasure Island Marina, which is about 1/4 mile west of where I live. I also shot a few frames from behind and to the right of this truck that day. Yesterday, though, I returned to take some more pictures of it, as I needed more details of the front to be able to identify its year of manufacture.
Aside from the obvious one, there are two other reasons I prefixed this pictures' title as Rear Window. The most recent reference in my life was that Sally and I watched the classic Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same name last Saturday night. I had never seen it before, in its entirety, and it was very well done. Any movie with Grace Kelly and James Stewart can't be totally bad, and the fact that he portrayed a photographer was a plus, for me. There was a small detail in the film that bothered me, though. While Mr. Stewart had a beautiful old Exakta Varex VX 35mm camera, with a 400 mm f5.6 Kilmitt Fern-Kilar lens on it, he handled that camera as if it weighed next to nothing! The camera body weighed about 2 pounds (this is before the advent of plastic's wide-spread use) and the lens alone - which was just over a foot long - weighed 3 pounds & 14 ounces (you can look it up). So the whole package was about 6 pounds!
The second related occurrence was mentioned in a book that I was reading - Thunderstruck, by Erik Larson. The book concerned the interwoven stories of Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communications, and Dr. Hawley Crippen - a "very unlikely murderer." The murder so captivated Alfred Hitchcock that "he used elements of the story in several of his movies, most notably Rear Window.
I have a few more images of this vehicle ready to go, for posting over the next few days. After that, I'll be shooting a street scene tonight here in Manhattan, during a break from work, that will most likely appear here at least once.
Camera Data
Canon
Canon EOS 5D
1/197 second
F/5.6
105 mm
50
Apr 30, 2011, 1:10:35 PM
Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
66mm
Aside from the obvious one, there are two other reasons I prefixed this pictures' title as Rear Window. The most recent reference in my life was that Sally and I watched the classic Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same name last Saturday night. I had never seen it before, in its entirety, and it was very well done. Any movie with Grace Kelly and James Stewart can't be totally bad, and the fact that he portrayed a photographer was a plus, for me. There was a small detail in the film that bothered me, though. While Mr. Stewart had a beautiful old Exakta Varex VX 35mm camera, with a 400 mm f5.6 Kilmitt Fern-Kilar lens on it, he handled that camera as if it weighed next to nothing! The camera body weighed about 2 pounds (this is before the advent of plastic's wide-spread use) and the lens alone - which was just over a foot long - weighed 3 pounds & 14 ounces (you can look it up). So the whole package was about 6 pounds!
The second related occurrence was mentioned in a book that I was reading - Thunderstruck, by Erik Larson. The book concerned the interwoven stories of Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communications, and Dr. Hawley Crippen - a "very unlikely murderer." The murder so captivated Alfred Hitchcock that "he used elements of the story in several of his movies, most notably Rear Window.
I have a few more images of this vehicle ready to go, for posting over the next few days. After that, I'll be shooting a street scene tonight here in Manhattan, during a break from work, that will most likely appear here at least once.
Camera Data
Canon
Canon EOS 5D
1/197 second
F/5.6
105 mm
50
Apr 30, 2011, 1:10:35 PM
Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
66mm
