At the car cemetery Bilkyrkogården Kyrkö mosse near Ryd in beautiful Sweden, I came across this blue car. I imagine that once someone chose this car with care. He looked critically at the available colours and fell in love with this beautiful blue. And then he had to wait impatiently for the car to be delivered. How proud he must have been when this beauty stood shining at the door. Visiting the friends and family to show it off and on Saturdays washing off the dirt and polishing it until it was like new again.
Despite all the good care, the car's life gets tougher as the bearings start to wear out, the paint becomes duller and the engine starts to fail more and more. Until the moment came when the owner put it here. Maybe he had to swear and push on the old junker during the last drive. And now it stands here sadly in the woods. The blue paint does still stand out nicely against the green, which is why I took the photo to save this Blue Diamond for oblivion. In time, when the car is completely absorbed into the forest floor, we will fortunately still have the photos.
I came this close to not being involved in photography. My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic, with the biggest parallax error you could wish for! So I always had pictures of people without heads. I used these cassettes with 12 or 24 photos, black and white (that.. Read more…