Buick wagon afflicted by mysterious illness!!! (cute pics! :-)

NEWS FLASH!!

We've all heard of the terrible flu season this year, but now even our cars are at risk!! Could an epidemic of the mysterious "Orange Pox" be looming? Affected cars develop orange pustules on the lower parts of the bumpers. Here is a recent victim:



What could be causing this mystery illness?

Perhaps the following photo provides an explanation:



Seriously, we are having some really cold weather here in California. A few days ago, I had rushed to save as many oranges as I could before the frost hit. The oranges needed to be washed and obviously I couldn't leave them to dry outside with the cold expected. So I piled them in front of my trusty wagon and used a fan to dry the fruit off. It has been crazy around here so I hadn't picked up the oranges. This morning I pulled into the garage with our Buick Century and saw: "Orange Pox!" Between the nice shiny bumper and the right background lighting - there it was!!

Hope it brings a smile to you face!

Cheers, Edouard

 

I'm trying REALLY hard to lend a sympathetic ear... no, really.

 

It was 81 F here today. And yesterday........
Of course here in Florida where the oranges are sweeter than anyplace else, we learned long ago that they get to maximum sweetness AFTER the first frost(not freeze).
Enjoy your juice.
Some vodka and ice will make it even better.

(Great pictures, though.)

 

You know...yeah -5 degrees when I went out for a smoke this morning. Just killed my brass monkey.

Funny pic though Edouard.

 

Cute! But of course Orange Pox is always better then Rusty Pox...

 

There goes the price of OJ!!!!!

 

Just a 24 hour "bug" . . . . .

Dear Station Wagon Lovers,

Just a quick update on the patient with "Orange Pox." It turned out that it was only a "24 hour bug." By the next day that bumper was looking just fine:



So if your vehicle gets "Orange Pox" - worry not!!

Thanks for all your station wagon support!!

Cheers, Edouard

 

What colour is your car? Is it green? Maybe I already asked...don't remember.

 

Trusty wagon is "Seafoam Green."

Hi Fanny and Station Wagon Lovers,

The car's color is actually what was called at the time "Seafoam Green." It appears to be a fairly hard color to match. Fortunately, I got hold of a paint chip on eBay and the body shop used that to match.

Now that the color is correct, I'm having a horrible time photographing the car!! I'm not entirely sure what it is about this color, but with too much light it washes out. I always have a polarizer when I have my DSLR. Even with that, I took 12 pictures around Lake Cascade and only that one was really decent.

Cheers, Edouard

 

Edouard: The problem with taking photos of that colour is that there is a LOT of silver in it. That is what gives the softness to the green colour. Bright light makes the silver flakes in the metallic finish shine more, and the green is not strong enough to come through. If you look at the pictures I posted of Arthur on his 23rd, it looks like 2 different cars the blue is so different, and the only difference was the angle of the sun against the paint. The two pictures were taken about 3 seconds apart. In real life, Arthur is about half way between the two blues in the pictures.

 

The silver content would explain how trusty wagon appears.

Hi Michael and Station Wagon photographers,

Yes, your explanation makes perfect sense. I hadn't thought about it like that. I have learned to try to pick the lighting conditions carefully and avoid direct sunlight. However, the car does look a bit washed out on a cloudy day, so it is something of a "can't win for losing" scenario.

The other thing is that photographs taken with a digital camera seem to have more problems with da' trusty wagon because of their limited dynamic range. I don't recall having as much problems with film cameras. Although, I didn't spend a lot of time photographing the car just after it was repainted in 1994 either!!

Cheers, Edouard

 

That's where Kodachrome was the standard of the photography world. It had just the right amount of colour saturation to get these 'odd' colours just right. Too bad Kodak stopped making it years ago, and now can't even process any of the stock that is still out there. I don't know if they still make it, but Koday Ectachrome for slides is also nicely saturated for colour reproduction, and you can take a print off the slide negative. I agree, though, that digital just does not catch some of these colours correctly.

 

good pics

these are some good pics

 

I loved Kodachrome, ASA 25 and 64.
It was like painting with light.

 

Let's face it, was there anyone who did not love Kodachrome? The only people who likely hated it were the manufacturers of competing films. For digital photographs of the old Buick, I wonder if a green filter would help it reproduce the colour properly.