Friday, January 27, 2012

Weekend black & white

There is a story behind this shot.

Last summer we were in NYC, one of the streets just to the east of Central Park; we came across this beauty and a film crew. It was the BBC filming a show that went out last night on BBC4 "We'll take Manhattan", the story of how David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton went to the States to do a fashion shoot for Vogue magazine, and changed forever the way fashion shoots were done.

In the program, the scene using this old taxi was shot and cropped so that absolutely nothing of 2010 shows up in the shot.

Anyway, lovely old car shot using my little Olympus XA with HP5 film; enjoyed the program as well.

8 comments:

Lachezar said...

Great shot, beautiful car, nice story!
congratulations!

Dragonstar said...

Wonderful! I love imagining the "real" streets behind the film scenes.

lina@home sweet home said...

Love the way you captured it. Hope one day I meet a film scene too :)

Tatjana Parkacheva said...

Very good black and white photo.

Regards and best wishes

Shanna said...

Beautiful shot of a great old car. What a serendipitous find for you.

Rejen said...

Very nice car, and interesting...;-D

RuneE said...

Interesting to see how the professionals work. BTW - the photo looks professional too.

James said...

A real classic! Nicely captured!