I love the POV on this! It's funny imagining how long that truck was both there and not there. I suspect it was moved there a lot later than it seems, but has been there long enough for voraciously territorial wild grapes to colonize at least one side of it. What really works in this shot is the POV and that nice, glaring red. I spent so much time getting the holdfasts of the grapevines that I scarcely even noticed the truck, though I did notice the coat of hand-applied primer and the odd bits of wood (and cardboard beer cartons of a local microbrew) in the rear bed. This is a really nice shot of a dead vehicular contrivance, and I'd love it if the thing stayed there long enough to be a truck-shaped mass of living grapevine! This is super. I particularly like the rust and the dead leaves still clinging to the tire; the textures and richness of the colors are amazing.

amazing POV, lighting and colors

TERRIFIC RUSTY PICKUP

So many ideas cross my mind! Maybe the guy who owns the parking lot owns the truck, and he's leaving it there as a long-term art project. It's a bit like a drunk owning a bar, to have a parking lot owner with a penchant for non-running vehicles, but it's none of MY business! LOL!

Looks to me that the parking lot was cleaned by some truck used for street cleaning and some dirt remains under the old Ford, so I'm guessing it was there all along and the painting was done with the Ford in place as well.

A mystery indeed, but what a great find! This is a powerful compo.

Love the POV and subject!

Superb capture my friend. God Bless.

It is a great expression. I thank you for it. 5+!!

Tires look pretty good for a truck that on the surface of things hasn't been street legal since 1997 (15 years ago). Please keep an eye on it for us:)

I've not commented on so many pieces of yours, so when I get here I have to choose representative samples; and the problem with that is that it looks like I like the ones I choose 'better' than the ones I don't. Well, I don't. I'm a great fan of all your work, so choosing is hard. I choose more to get an array of your work, pieces that strike me as samples of the many sides of you. And because I'm slow at commenting (I don't know, for example, how chip does so many long comments in a night, it takes me 10 nights to do that), I have to make these choices even if I don't want to. But, here goes: Why do I like this piece, and why do I think it works as a representative example of your eye? First, it's a real knockdown, kick of an image. Ba-da-boom. The image is a street guy with guts and poetry, who says whatsa-fucks-a-matta-you, and has real beauty inside. It's so 'what it is': a big rusted heap of a thing, with an in-your-face crop---ie letting the arrogance of this heap slap us in the face, with no effort (at least visible to us viewers) to pretty-the-thing-up or make it a more pleasing photo. That tells us something about your honesty as a photographer, with this type of image and with other types too. It also about your wonderful eye for the dignity of something in decay. Like old barns, these old cars and trucks and other urban sights you photograph get to flaunt their ornery identities with unblinking directness to the world. They're knockouts, as far as I'm concerned. The angle, here, allows that back corner of the truck to jut out---ba-da-boom---which is why I say "arrogant". Like it's saying, "up yours if you don't like it," or just "ba fanguul". And oddly, that vine (or those leaves) are like adornments, a wreath, a laurel of honor for the beast---set off all the more by the brash redness of that tail-light. Of course, you call this "trellis," so you're acknowledging that this beast is a holder for plants---a great a title, considering that the vine is a very small part of the shot. And you gave us the underside, sunken in black shadows which make the beast look like it's emerging out of a black hole, all leading to a clear blue sky above. Poetic, a mess, grand and snooty, like it's daring us to say something; and a shot of ornery beauty. You have a lot of eyes, ie a lot of approaches, etc, most of which I can't name; but something about this just hits me between the eyes as a shot of yours: It's spontaneous, beautiful, natural and 'honoring'. And you got the tilt, once again without a trace of artifice (as in, "that tilt is a bittttttttttt pretentious, don't ya think?"---your tilts never feel that way).)And that wheel looks like it devoured a pizza and either spilled it all over itself or out-and-out threw the thing up, and didn't give a fig. Bold, ornery and poetic. I love it.