Cadillac Ranch

rwells

Just outside of Amarillo, TX you'll find the Cadillac Ranch. I have no idea why it is, what it is. You'll have to decide that for yourself. Edit: OK, I just looked it up.

I've passed by it for years before I finally took the time this week to take some pics.

Maybe you can see in pic #4 how thick the spray paint is over the years.



No HDR used. All adjustments made in Lightroom2 except for watermark in CS2.

dlplumer

Very cool Randy. I bet these would be really cool with some HDR processing.

Jack'll do

thumb We used to call it Psychedelic. Makes me miss my pony tail
Great shots.

alvinrs

Nice pics Randy
Great job. Did you listen to a little Greatfull Dead on the Ipod while taking the pictures?

anvilimage

Great coloring! I just took the Digital Days workshop last weekend and we went over a lot of Lightroom use. It's definitely a very powerful tool as you've shown here and I haven't been using anywhere near its full potential.


-joe

rwells

dlplumer wrote:

Very cool Randy. I bet these would be really cool with some HDR processing.

Thanks Dan.

rwells

Jack'll do wrote:

thumb We used to call it Psychedelic. Makes me miss my pony tail
Great shots.

Jack,

I thought we were still calling this Psychedelic

rwells

alvinrs wrote:

Great job. Did you listen to a little Greatfull Dead on the Ipod while taking the pictures?

Thanks Alvin. If I had been doing that, I would have forgotten what I was even in the field for

rwells

anvilimage wrote:

Great coloring! I just took the Digital Days workshop last weekend and we went over a lot of Lightroom use. It's definitely a very powerful tool as you've shown here and I haven't been using anywhere near its full potential.


-joe

The originals were so colorful, I didn't have to do that much processing on these. I did push things in pic #4 though.

Thanks for looking and the comments.

redleash

Great stuff, Randy. The last time I drove by there was in, um, er, 1981 or so, in my college, I mean junior high days . . . and all the Caddys were single colors. I've never seen them painted up like this--Wow!!

Lauren

leaforte

Pretty cool. I think you got it for me in #'s 1, 4 and 7. Thanks for posting.

rwells

redleash wrote:

Great stuff, Randy. The last time I drove by there was in, um, er, 1981 or so, in my college, I mean junior high days . . . and all the Caddys were single colors. I've never seen them painted up like this--Wow!!

Lauren

I remember seeing them a few years ago when they were all pink.


While I was shooting these pics, there were several people spraying them, putting their "mark" on them, so to speak.

Just outside the fence, the State of Texas has a sign that says not to spray paint anything outside the fence.

rwells

leaforte wrote:

Pretty cool. I think you got it for me in #'s 1, 4 and 7. Thanks for posting.

Glad you liked them leaforte. Thanks for looking.