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30-JUN-2006

Rod Rees

Hippie Bus

Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel ,Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 Macro II USM
1/400s f/8.0 at 28.0mm iso200 hide exif
Full EXIF Info
Date/Time30-Jun-2006 17:14:48
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS DIGITAL REBEL
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length28 mm
Exposure Time1/400 sec
Aperturef/8
ISO Equivalent200
Exposure Bias0.33
White Balance (-1)
Metering Modematrix (5)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Programaperture priority (3)
Focus Distance

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henuly1photography28-Aug-2011 23:54
nice composition!
Guest 04-Jul-2006 22:27
A gorgeous shot, Rod, and your sentiment very poignant as well. But don't despair!
Your generation had the courage to voice and carry forth with a movement for peace and justice long rooted in this country for many generations (think of the labor activists, the abolitionists, the suffrage movement.) The baby boomers carried on this tradition with their own unique style, and many are still moving forward.

The vision isn't dead...nor the movement. It just adapts to the times.
Now we're moving on the internet, organizing by instant messaging, fighting back locally AND globally. And I'm so grateful to the generation before mine, for the paths they made. And I'm looking forward to my own children's generation, and their own sense of creativity they will bring to healing the planet and sowing more seeds of peace.

Incidently, this bus resides at a school, Erkinder Meadowhawk, where the kids are learning to steward the land, communicate non-violently, salvage and recylce, and
get creative about imaging their own vision for their generation!

Lisa
Margaret Hadderman 04-Jul-2006 19:11
William Irwin Thompson, in books published during the seventies, wrote of the "sunset effect" he saw coming for bad ideas (and pursuits) like religious fundamentalism, authoritarianism, war, social/racial/economic inequalities, anomie, alienation, etc. Because these were so deleterious to humanity and the planet, Thompson believed they would eventually die out--some going out in a blaze, not necessarily of glory, before "sunsetting" forever and allowing new waves of awareness, interdependence, etc., to transform our everyday lives. Perhaps we, in this horrific start to a new century, are seeing these sunset effects now, but don't realize it yet. I do think Jessie's hippie bus might be only temporarily sidelined. It could certainly use a coat of paint and some hand-made decorations. Then the bus should be converted into a modest "model home" for someone who needs it! The bus and others like it could herald and embody a more back-to-basics kind of dwelling and lifesyle needed to face an uncertain, post peak-oil future.
Andree 04-Jul-2006 17:55
Great, and poignant, reminder. I don't think we were naive about the dream, only about what it would take to manifest. Years ago, astrologer Liz Greene said that we may be headed for the Aquarian Age but the process would force up everything we've denied and ignored -- racism, the perils of nationalism, and so on. Between that and the reaction of entrenched power to any threat, here we are.
I'm guessing that the best thing we can do is continue working to recapture the dream on a small scale and then link together like campfires on the frontier. But right now it sure feels lonely out here.
Andree 04-Jul-2006 17:44
Great, and poignant, reminder. I don't think we were naive about the dream, only about what it would take to manifest. Years ago, astrologer Liz Greene said that we may be headed for the Aquarian Age but the process would force up everything we've denied and ignored -- racism, the perils of nationalism, and so on. Between that and the reaction of entrenched power to any threat, here we are.
I'm guessing that the best thing we can do is continue working to recapture the dream on a small scale and then link together like campfires on the frontier. But right now it sure feels lonely out here.
Jan 04-Jul-2006 17:08
The Hippie Days were great days of freedom and adventure. I am so glad I was born at the right time to be a part of it. I think most of our history since has been an effort by the "establishment" to regain and keep control out of the hands of the people of our country. Yet the pendulum will swing back someday. Thanks for the memories!
Guest 04-Jul-2006 16:42
Rod.. Great shot, brings backck memories of the 69 beetle bus a group of us shared in my Air Force days way back in 73... ohh if walls could talk that bus would be a library of stories
thanks for the trip back
Jason Hammond 04-Jul-2006 15:03
And today (July 4th) the Rainbow Gathering is in full and glorious swing in SW Colorado....The dream of Loving
Community is NOT dead ! We have aged yes but let us never forget the miracles we have seen.Remember..
the pendulum swings back and forth. We were blessed to know those days. Yet...I sigh deeply when I see all
of the "Hippie Ghost Towns".....
Guest 04-Jul-2006 14:15
Great shot -- lots of visual interest.

Linda K
baxter 04-Jul-2006 04:14
This could be a visual for the lyric snippetts that I have been writing for years about the "Land of Broken Dreams" when I am feeling nostalgic or sad for all of those unrealized dreams of my own. I see the images of small stores closed up and farms and vehicles in disrepair. The bus could just as easily be a visual for dreams that served well at the time but now no longer fit the latest choices in life. People and dreams change.
Guest 04-Jul-2006 00:44
Lovely shot - beautiful color/sharpness, and most certainly there's a good story in the memories of this one!
Ron Shaffer 03-Jul-2006 23:36


Looks to me like it is waiting to come alive again.
Phil Gallo 03-Jul-2006 22:28
A bittersweet memory of days that will never return.
Guest 03-Jul-2006 22:26
nicely done, I bet it could tell a few tales lol
Guest 03-Jul-2006 18:43
Lovely memories of days gone by, and so quickly they do go..
Joe Lasker03-Jul-2006 18:25
That's so much nicer than the pink and green VW bus we used to party, I mean, drive in when I was younger.
ifotog03-Jul-2006 18:06
Oh that is sweet! It's nicer than my house. Is it for sale? :)
CJ Morgan03-Jul-2006 18:02
ROTFL. Oh man, that is so great. And it seems to me
you photographed it in "good light."
Janet Forjan-Freedman03-Jul-2006 17:50
Wonderful photo that has a story to tell. Nicely angled shot with good DOF. Janet
J Bryan Kramer03-Jul-2006 17:46
LOL. it's hard to believe he could drive that for a mile now without being pulled over by the nanny-cops