Beauty and a Beast
As I inhale my Big Mac and fries after a busy day photographing and driving on the surrounding roads, the distant sky works through a post-sunset colour pallet of ochre and magenta before finally turning deep purple and blue; even the wind farm on the horizon somehow looks quite pretty. Maybe it helps that it’s several kilometres away, giving the giant power generators typical of this mid German countryside an appearance more akin to cute windmills. But it’s not the rolling countryside nor the wind farm on the horizon that are captivating me here; it’s the simply lovely shape of a beautiful 1970 911S – long since updated to S/T spec – a few metres in front that’s capturing my attention.
My burger tastes all the better after a day’s hard work running around the aforementioned countryside capturing this fabulous car, culminating in the kind of gorgeous sunset us photographers dream of (but despite forecasts promising as much, often don’t quite happen). It’s not every day you get to shoot a car this pretty, this rare, this special, so of course you want to do it justice. You, dear reader, can be the judge of that, but right here and right now I’m feeling happy with the day’s work.
I’m sure the debate could rage for a
