This post goes for Qurator's Photo Quest.
This week prompt was: "Technology".
I have a little dirty visual pleasure for you. The photo I took recently at the International Cars exhibition at St.Petersburg. There were a lot of kidz and nice shiny old cars restores... and this part if what have been left of the ones that were dismounted. Beautiful examples of the XX century technology.
| location: | St.Petersburg, Russia | April 2021 | lamp lighting |
| camera/lens: | Canon 5D | 16-35mm 2.8 | ex-jpg |
| f X | t 1/40 | ISO 640 | --- |
It seems the said society members are outcasts, a minority, at least here on Hive. Nobody shares their posts to Antique & Vintage community, none of my posts are getting a decent evaluation ... stop, stop, seems I'm starting to whine, and I'd rather not say any more.
I better share another captures and nice example of old technology.
This is a trolleybus chassis. The trolleybus itself was built in 1948, and lost its job in the late 1960s - for 30 years its body, without an engine, served in a secret Soviet military laboratory (served as a test object, hehe). Cannot be restored, the remaining parts were used as donors for the restoration of other old buses. But! The museum workers made a perfect use of what was left: they turned the chassis into an exhibit!
And believe me, I spent several hours next to it (with my camera ofc) - it turned out to be on of the exhibition highlights and most popular spots, always crowdy - there always was a line of children waiting for the opportunity to evaluate this device, sit in the driver's seat, touch a real steering wheel and turn it - thats worth a lot! There was also a brake, but most of the children did not get their feet up to it :) I made a lot of happy children's faces shots, the range of emotions written on them was eye-catching!
Это шасси троллейбуса. Сам троллейбус был построен в 1948 году, и потерял работу в конце 1960-х годов - 30 лет его кузов, без мотора, служил в секретной советской военной лаборатории (служил в качестве тест-объекта, хехе). Восстановлению не подлежит, оставшиеся в наличии части были использованы как доноры для восстановления других старых автобусов. Но! Музейные работники нашли прекрасное применение тому что осталось: они превратили шасси в экспонат!
И поверьте мне, я провел рядом с ним несколько часов (держа камеру в руках) - это был один из самых топовых и популярных экспонатов на выставке, очередь детей, ждущих возможности оценить это устройство, посидеть в кресле водителя, прикоснуться к настоящему рулю и покрутить его - стоит многого! Там был еще и тормоз, но у большинства детей ноги до него не доставали :) Я сделал немало кадров счастливых детских лиц, спектр написанных на них эмоций был вмечатляющий!
A racing car inside. Splendid!
{ You may check my previous post about the cars exhibition here. I didnt dig specifically into the old-timers in that post, its is an account of everything I saw there. }
Now its time to do some other things. Now I gonna use a good old technology of scrambled eggs, a cast-iron pan will be included, too!