Author: bahgheera
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Cedar Rapids Car Show
I attended the Independence Day Car Show here today, in the hopes that I would get some artistic shots of some classic cars. I did indeed.
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Cedar Rapids, IA
Here are some creative edits from photos I took in the downtown area of Cedar Rapids.
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Wallula Gap, Washington
I recently had the experience of hiking through the mountains alongside the Columbia River in Wallula Gap, Washington. I saw the river from the vantage point at the top of a cliffed mountain, which I estimate is around 400 feet high. It’s a difficult hike – the gravel-strewn trail is steep and it’s fairly easy…
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Wilmington, March 2025
There is a building near Greenfield Lake that used to have a handful of old cars and trucks parked in the yard. I took photos of them about 15 years ago. Today I talked to the man who owns that building and found that he used to rent old cars to the movie studio here…
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Gastonia, NC
Here are a few shots of some well worn buildings in Gastonia. The Martinizing shop is what initially caught my eye. “Martinizing” shops used to be everywhere. I haven’t seen one in decades until I stumbled across this one.
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Auto Shop in Central Illinois
Somewhere in a small town southwest of Chicago, there is an auto parts and service shop. The building looks like it must have been erected in the 1950s or 1960s. I noticed this building quite a few years back, as I drive past it on the way to work when I’m in this area. I…
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Vintage Cameras
Here are a few of the vintage cameras from my collection. There are two Polaroid Land Cameras – an Automatic 210, and a J66, then there is a Kodak Instamatic 304 and a Kodak Pony 135 Model B. These cameras all date from around the late 60s to early 70s.
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Tiger Cruise, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
Here are a few scanned images that I took during the 1996 Tiger Cruise on board the USS D. D. Eisenhower. The squadrons attached to the ship put on an airshow for the civilians on board that day.