Old Farming Machine (Sepia)

SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
edited May 8, 2007 in Other Cool Shots
Found this shot the other day when I was searching my hard drive.
It was Taken in Montana.

Looked better in Sepia than in colour :D
Enjoy.... Skippy
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2007
    Very nice sepia conversion SkippY clap.gif

    Pic is cool too mwink.gif Love the cloud, could almost be a puff of historical smoke :D
  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2007
    BigAl wrote:
    Very nice sepia conversion SkippY clap.gif

    Pic is cool too mwink.gif Love the cloud, could almost be a puff of historical smoke :D

    Thanks Al :D the clouds were few and far between on that day... Skippy.
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  • ShepsMomShepsMom Registered Users Posts: 4,319 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2007
    Hey, you've got to put an original, ya know, so we can praise you some more!! No HDR?? Laughing.gif
    Good shot Skippy!!! clap.gif
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2007
    Great photo skippy mwink.gif nice sepia looks perfect
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  • ultravoxultravox Registered Users Posts: 776 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2007
    Well done Skippy, love the conversion.
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  • z_28z_28 Registered Users Posts: 956 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2007
    Fantastic catch mate !!
    Great Country must be there far, far away and down under !?
    Do you really got Montana there too ??
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2007
    ShepsMom wrote:
    Hey, you've got to put an original, ya know, so we can praise you some more!! No HDR?? Laughing.gif
    Good shot Skippy!!! clap.gif

    I'll try and do that tonight, I'm pressed for time right now gotta get off here and headed to work :D .... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2007
    Great photo skippy mwink.gif nice sepia looks perfect

    Thanks Awais, I will try and find the brochure I kept from where I actually photographed this piece of equiment and find the name of the Town.

    Thanks for looking :D .... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2007
    ultravox wrote:
    Well done Skippy, love the conversion.

    Thank you :D ... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2007
    z_28 wrote:
    Fantastic catch mate !!
    Great Country must be there far, far away and down under !?
    Do you really got Montana there too ??

    Montana is in USA I took this picture about 2 years ago when I was there.
    Montana is an awesome state to visit, and 40+ Dgrinners are about to find that out in September clap.gif :ivar can't wait to go back there again :D

    Thanks for looking.... Skippy
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  • RogersDARogersDA Registered Users Posts: 3,502 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2007
    Hey Skippy, neat shot and conversion. I, too, ocasionally tweak a photo or two with sepia.

    Hope you don't mind, but I tweaked yours a bit more. Added some light noise for that aged look, and some vignetting and another filter tossed in for kicks just to see how it came out.

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  • quarkquark Registered Users Posts: 510 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2007
    For what it is worth I believe this is a steam driven tractor. No rubber on the tires means very old. Glad you caught it before it rusted to nothing!
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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 23,764 moderator
    edited May 6, 2007
    Skippy,

    Nice shot! thumb.gif

    Interesting equipment.

    Great job on the conversion.
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  • ShepsMomShepsMom Registered Users Posts: 4,319 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2007
    RogersDA wrote:
    Hey Skippy, neat shot and conversion. I, too, ocasionally tweak a photo or two with sepia.

    Hope you don't mind, but I tweaked yours a bit more. Added some light noise for that aged look, and some vignetting and another filter tossed in for kicks just to see how it came out.

    150172825-L-LB.jpg

    Love what you did with it, very antique looking!clap.gif
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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,167 moderator
    edited May 6, 2007
    That is indeed a unique antique and sepia shows it off well.

    Now Skip, I'll let you in on a little secret... that is not a tractor. It is my old GMC misery van, which is still in service (barely). I have decided to rent a car to make the trip to Montana again this fall.
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  • GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2007
    WOW nice shot Skipster!!thumb.gif

    That thing looks older than Dinosaur poo!
    Any idea as to it's actual age?
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2007
    RogersDA wrote:
    Hey Skippy, neat shot and conversion. I, too, ocasionally tweak a photo or two with sepia.

    Hope you don't mind, but I tweaked yours a bit more. Added some light noise for that aged look, and some vignetting and another filter tossed in for kicks just to see how it came out.

    Hey that looks cool clap.gif I like it thumb.gif its fun to mess around with these kind of shots .... Good One ! .... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2007
    quark wrote:
    For what it is worth I believe this is a steam driven tractor. No rubber on the tires means very old. Glad you caught it before it rusted to nothing!

    I remember where I was when I took it now :D
    We were in Nevada City in Montana (Ghost Town)

    There was some pretty interesting buildings there too.

    Thanks for the Info ..... and thanks for commenting :D ... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2007
    ziggy53 wrote:
    Skippy,

    Nice shot! thumb.gif

    Interesting equipment.

    Great job on the conversion.

    Thanks Ziggy it was a town I'd love to go back to, they have restored so much of it, great little Town to take your time and walk around. :D
    .... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2007
    David_S85 wrote:
    That is indeed a unique antique and sepia shows it off well.

    Now Skip, I'll let you in on a little secret... that is not a tractor. It is my old GMC misery van, which is still in service (barely). I have decided to rent a car to make the trip to Montana again this fall.

    David, the car I had before the one I have now was so rusted out, that if you opened the boot you could see the road rolleyes1.gif

    I had it for 18 years, didn't owe me a cent, went straight to the tip after I got the new one :D .

    The one I've got now is already 10 years old and I tell you I will be running this one into the ground too.....cars are such a waste of money but unfortunately I have to rely on having one to get to and from work.

    ..... Thanks for looking, hope your Tractor (Van) lasts a couple more years for you thumb.gif ... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2007
    WOW nice shot Skipster!!thumb.gif

    That thing looks older than Dinosaur poo!
    Any idea as to it's actual age?

    Age? ohhhhhhhh geezz now your asking, I wouldn't have a clue.
    But it's in your country so that might help you figure it out rolleyes1.gif
    ...just joking, I really don't know :D ... Skippy

    .... UPDATE.... Apparently its from the 1860 era
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  • SerratorSerrator Registered Users Posts: 227 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2007
    Skippy, your big sky image looks wonderful. The sepia retouching suits this very well.
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited May 8, 2007
    Serrator wrote:
    Skippy, your big sky image looks wonderful. The sepia retouching suits this very well.

    Thank you :D ... Skippy
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