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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Forty One: Ruins and wrecks: photographing the rusted, busted past > Truck in the sage, Benton Hot Springs, California, 2006
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19-OCT-2006

Truck in the sage, Benton Hot Springs, California, 2006

As with the car in the previous image, this truck has also been left in Benton’s bushes to rot away. Yet the lovely flowering sage growing around it ironically seems to offer a fragrant and beautiful salute. I take a vantage point that stresses the flowers and abstracts the truck behind it. A long mirror extends diagonally from the truck, as if to better see the flowers. But the mirror is black and the cab empty.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50
1/500s f/8.0 at 38.9mm iso100 hide exif
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Date/Time19-Oct-2006 09:22:29
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ModelDMC-FZ50
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length38.9 mm
Exposure Time1/500 sec
Aperturef/8
ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias-0.66
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Phil Douglis06-Nov-2006 19:31
The sage also brings an incongruous bed of beauty to the rusting truck -- I think the symbolically colorful sage has convinced you that this truck will someday be restored to life, Ai Li.
AL06-Nov-2006 09:39
The warm colored sage did provide a nice shade and resting ground for the truck. Somehow without seeing the faded or rusty texture and that the windows seemed to be in good condition, I pinned a hope that someone may recover the truck one day and use it again.
Phil Douglis31-Oct-2006 18:19
Your imagination, Jenene, is as rich as the rustic colors in this image. Thank you for taking my story and building your own upon it.
JSWaters31-Oct-2006 17:12
It's the secret of the ghosts that haunt this place. They know the sage will be beautiful and so position their relics to best take advantage of the surrounding scenery. The mirror will flash with the passing of a memory when it comes back to once again enjoy the flowers, as you did.
Jenene
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