The Whitby series #4

Posted by Curly (South Shields, United Kingdom) on 17 August 2010 in Transportation and Portfolio.

A lovely example of an old van on display during the 1940s weekend in Whitby, North Yorkshire.

Processed in Photoshop and Nik Silver Efex.

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Prarthana from Singapore

very apt processing for the old van. fabulous.

17 Aug 2010 6:05am

Richard from Duns, United Kingdom

Very good, looks like a postcard!

17 Aug 2010 6:09am

Albert from Hamburg, Germany

Nice treatment! You succeeded with the "old times"-feeling.

17 Aug 2010 7:36am

jeanclaude from st mande 94160, France

top one congratulations*************

17 Aug 2010 7:43am

Calusarus from St Sorlin en Valloire, France

Congratulations for this shot.
And a great processing. 5 stars !

17 Aug 2010 8:13am

Florence from Paris, France

Vintage, vintage and vintage ! Great process.

17 Aug 2010 8:23am

Sonia Nansid from Barcelona Stockholm, Sweden

Very well chosen antique palette for that car and the ships before!

17 Aug 2010 8:40am

Eric Cousineau from Sherwood Park, Canada

Super processing on this vintage automobile! 5-stars!! Bravo! ;-)

17 Aug 2010 12:23pm

Mici from Tg Mures, Romania

Beautiful car and great processing

17 Aug 2010 1:08pm

Amanda from Jersey City, United States

Cool vintage feel--I can even hear that old horn in my mind.

17 Aug 2010 1:39pm

marc from Granby, Canada

nice post process I love old model nicely done...

17 Aug 2010 1:40pm

Paul from summerside, Canada

Nice one Curly

17 Aug 2010 1:56pm

Sara from Jackson, WI, United States

Great pov and lovely processing...makes the old look even more old-fashioned :)

17 Aug 2010 2:42pm

Putter from Brugge, Belgium

Nicely done!

17 Aug 2010 4:15pm

STEED from Somewhere, France

What a work !!! Superb !!!

17 Aug 2010 6:09pm

Nigel from Avening, United Kingdom

Timeless - well done

17 Aug 2010 6:53pm

António Pires from Lisbon, Portugal

A photo with a 1936 look.

17 Aug 2010 8:20pm

Thea from Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Wow..they really made beautiful cars way back then!
Beautiful processed!

17 Aug 2010 8:35pm

Skyriani from Nelson, New Zealand

the processing lends a old picture postcard feel to the image

17 Aug 2010 8:36pm

MadScientist from Düsseldorf, Germany

A true gem you've found there, the processing is more than adequate!

17 Aug 2010 9:30pm

DowsherVision from PARIS, France

Great shot and good work on the processing.

17 Aug 2010 9:33pm

Formerly Known as MontereyJohn from Waterbury, Connecticut, United States

I wabt Silver Efex!. Not in the old budget right now. Nice job.

17 Aug 2010 9:39pm

endlessnight from dayyer, Iran

excellent shot and a better processing.

17 Aug 2010 11:36pm

Steven from Chicagoland, United States

A great composition with your angle of capture. And your processing in B&W, along with the white vignette, adds the perfect nostalgic look.

18 Aug 2010 12:33am

Seraphine from San Francisco, United States

whoa, look at all that chrome!
you did an excellent job making the photograph appear as vintage as the automobile depicted.
beautifully shot, curly.

18 Aug 2010 12:42am

Stephen Phillips from San Francisco, United States

Great photograph of a worthy piece of engineering excellence. And dig the 5 digit phone number. Talk about lost-in-time...

18 Aug 2010 1:27am

Kate from Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Cool! I love the fading on the edges.

18 Aug 2010 3:15am

Richard from Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Nicely done!! great effect!

18 Aug 2010 10:57am

Anthony Morgan Lambert from Bielefeld, Germany

There´s a real feel of history to this picture !!

18 Aug 2010 11:44am

Val37 from Tours, France

very nice processing ! I like the sepia tone !

18 Aug 2010 1:29pm

Susan from Pompano Beach, by Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States

Beautifully processed....what a great thing, your 40's weekend!! sounds like a photographer's dream !!!

19 Aug 2010 1:22am

Julie from Easton, United States

I have to agree that this looks like a postcard, very nice coloring and edging!

19 Aug 2010 4:43am

StarCosmosBleu from Bedford.Qc, Canada

Love the tones...very nice..

21 Aug 2010 4:46am

Pentax K100D
1/180 second
F/6.7
ISO 200
36 mm (35mm equiv.)

black-and-white
whitby
van

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