Spinning My Wheels

Jul 27, 2007 - The Glow of a Friendly Radio

Sometimes you take a photograph without realizing what you've captured. Doesn't the stereo to my 98 Corolla look happy? I can't really explain the glowing "mouth". SOMETHING caught the light just right, that's for sure! This was taken with my Olympus FE-100 digital camera, at the parking lot of SuperTarget in Edmond, Oklahoma at about 8:30 or 9 at night. I often drive over there and just sit in the car for some much-needed peace - as well as to watch the cars as they pull in and out! Night photos are so interesting with a low-end digital camera in that you never get what you set out to! This time out, though, the illumination of the stereo was downright eerie! My car has one of the last of the cassette players, but it's the part below that, where the digital radio dial is, that is casting such an eerie glow. I can't remember, now, whether I used a flash, but I kind of think not. I hate the way flash washes out a photo, and I oftentimes do without if I think the natural lighting is enough, even at night. My Olympus does have a night setting that at times seems rather useless, but at other times makes me want to jump for joy!

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