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Ducktail Run

James Brosher — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:57:39 +0000

For the second year in a row, I self-assigned myself the Ducktail Run Rod & Custom Show in Gas City, Ind. The show is part of James Dean weekend in Grant County, Indiana where the film star grew up. The weekend marks the anniversary of his death in a car accident in 1955. As a kid, I grew up going to car shows with my folks and always had a blast at this show in particular. Being the last weekend of September each year, it unofficially marks the end of the car show season in Indiana. It’s an extremely visual event with colorful cars, colorful foliage from the park trees and colorful personalities. As someone who gets paid to make pictures for a living, it’s nice sometimes to get away from the office and the daily grind to make some pictures for myself for fun. I didn’t have any deadlines, picture count quotas or time constraints. I wandered around the park several times and shot things I found interesting.

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Father’s Day

James Brosher — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:35:32 +0000

Spent Father’s Day hanging out with my dad as he helped host a car show with his car club down in Kokomo, Indiana. Didn’t shoot much, but after the show was over got a frame of dad relaxing after a long day in the heat. I’ll make sure to put this picture on his Father’s Day card next year.

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2:50 a.m.

James Brosher — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:00:26 +0000

I usually don’t find myself taking photos at 2:50 a.m. very often. But I made an exception a couple nights ago when my folks got ready to depart my apartment for Indiana at that very time. About 18 hours later my folks were sitting in their driveway in Dunkirk, Ind. Not too shabby.

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Europe through a plastic lens

James Brosher — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:34:37 +0000

Now that I’ve had a chance to go through all the film from my trip to Germany and Austria, I wanted to share my favorite photos I took with my Holga earlier this summer. Using the Holga for the first time was a great challenge to someone like me who hasn’t shot film since high school. It was a lot of fun to challenge myself to make pictures in a foreign environment with a camera that was foreign to me.

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Salzburg, Austria

James Brosher — Fri, 21 May 2010 22:12:06 +0000

In Salzburg, Austria today, I tried to continue a general theme I established in Munich on Thursday. Instead of photographing the buildings and the sights (the things that are photographed most often by tourists), I tried to look beyond what’s there for a less-often represented feature photo. I did a better job of this in Salzburg than I did in Munich because I spent more time walking around Salzburg. Also, I finally put the Holga to use and shot a couple of rolls including a multiple-exposure collage of sorts with a few of the Salzburg sites. Here’s a few of my shots from today sans the Holga shots:

A horse carriage driver pets one of his horses as he awaits customers on Friday, May 21, 2010, in the Old Town area of Salzburg, Austria.

Salzburg's Old Town is seen through window bars inside the city's famed Festung (Fortress) on Friday, May 21, 2010, in Salzburg, Austria.

A man browses a selection of books on Friday, May 21, 2010, in Munich's Central Train Station.

Visitors make their way down the Getreidegasse past shops and restaurants on Friday, May 21, 2010, in Salzburg, Austria. The pedestrian-only street is the Old City's central shopping district.

Tourists view portraits of former Archbishops of the Archdiocese of Salzburg during a tour of the Salzburg Festung (Fortress) on Friday, May 21, 2010, on Salzburg, Austria.

A large selection of several decorated eggs sit on display at the Christmas in Salzburg shop on Friday, May 21, 2010, in Salzburg, Austria. The shop, which is open year-round, features thousands of decorated eggs.

A horse carriage driver puts a blanket on his horse as he awaits customers on Friday, May 21, 2010, in the Old Town area of Salzburg, Austria.

Tom Brosher peers out a window at the passing countryside during a train ride on Friday, May 21, 2010, near the German-Austrian border north of Salzburg, Austria.

Visitors make their way through the Salzburg Cathedral on Friday, May 21, 2010, in Salzburg, Austria. The baroque cathedral, built in the 17th century, is dedicated to Saint Rupert of Salzburg.

Church and cathedral steeples reach into the sky on Friday, May 21, 2010, in Salzburg, Austria's Old Town. Many of the city's old buildings were featured in the classic musical, "The Sound of Music."

Visitors climb a staircase into the Festung (Fortress) on Friday, May 21, 2010, in Salzburg, Austria. The Festung is one of the city's most well-known landmarks.

Visitors look northeastward on Friday, May 21, 2010, from the Salzburg Festung (Fortress) in Salzburg, Austria. The fortress was built starting in 1077.

A German village is seen through a train car window on Friday, May 21, 2010, in Southern Bavaria.

Tourists take pictures of the Salzburg Old City on Friday, May 21, 2010, from the Salzburg Festung (Fortress) in Austria.

A man, right, waits to meet someone on Friday, May 21, 2010, in a shopping center in Salzburg, Austria.

Tourists enjoy a view of the Salzburg Old City on Friday, May 21, 2010, from the Salzburg Festung (Fortress) in Austria.

A horse carriage driver reads a book as he awaits customers on Friday, May 21, 2010, in the Old Town area of Salzburg, Austria.

A couple, center, make their way through a courtyard atop the Salzburg Festung (Fortress) on Friday, May 21, 2010, in Salzburg, Austria.

A couple walks down a set of stairs into the gardens at Mirabell Palace on Friday, May 21, 2010, in Salzburg, Austria.

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What lies beneath

James Brosher — Fri, 07 May 2010 05:11:15 +0000

Since I’ve been done with finals since Tuesday, I came home to spend a few days at my parents’ place in Dunkirk, Ind. While I was home today, my dad was working to install a new 5-speed manual transmission in his 1957 Chevy Bel Air. I made a few pictures of his work as he uncovered some rust and interesting patchwork under the carpet in the interior of the car as cut a new hole in the floor for the shifter lever.

Tom Brosher dangles a leg outside of his 1957 Chevy Bel Air as he looks to cut a hole in the floor of the car for the shifter of his new 5-speed manual transmission on Thursday, May 6, 2010, in Dunkirk, Ind.

Tom Brosher works on a shifter for a new 5-speed manual transmission inside of his 1957 Chevy Bel Air on Thursday, May 6, 2010, in Dunkirk, Ind.

Tom Brosher imagines where his shifter knob would be as he prepares to bolt a shifter lever to a new 5-speed manual transmission in his 1957 Chevy Bel Air on Thursday, May 6, 2010, in Dunkirk, Ind.

Georgia Brosher waits for her husband Tom, lower right, to finish installing a new shifter for his 5-speed manual transmission in his 1957 Chevy Bel Air so he can come and eat supper on Thursday, May 6, 2010, in Dunkirk, Ind.

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