Managed to catch the Northern Lights outside of Sebringville.
Bright enough to see with the naked eye, late enough at night that a police officer stopped to see what I was doing standing on a gravel road at 11:30.
15 seconds, f/2.8, ISO 1600
20 seconds, f/2.8, ISO 1250
20 seconds, f/2.8, ISO 1250
At the end of the summer dad and I headed down to Sarnia for a day of chasing trains. There’s a CSX train that runs into Chemical Valley on weekdays that I can’t see while work is on, so we both set the day aside to pop down to the Imperial City.
We didn’t end up seeing the CSX train but we did catch a few others on the main line and moving cars between refineries. It’s a great landscape for photos and makes for something a bit more interesting than the usual “trains at rural crossings” photos.
It’s been a few years since I made it out to Zurich’s annual Beanfest. Prior to COVID I usually helped flip burgers and hot dogs at a food stand with The Cultural Collective, but now that most of the food has been outsourced I was free to wander around and see what was going on!
When I arrived at 2 probably 1/3 of the cars in the festival’s famous car show had left as dark clouds rolled past off in the distance. It didn’t come close to raining, but the show was still good nevertheless. Besides classic cars I had a beer and listened to a country-pop cover of Watermelon Sugar, caught up with a few people I hadn’t seen in a while, and ate egg noodles with a side of beans from Raja Zurich.
After missing last year’s show this year’s Oblivion outing was high on my August to-do list! With over a hundred cars parked around the scenic St. Volodymyr Cultural Centre in Oakville this year’s show didn’t leave anyone with cold feet.
I’m a huge fan of what the Oblivion Car & Culture Show is all about, and it’s not just because I grew up in the 90s. As time moves on some aspects of classic car culture are struggling to keep up, and the definition of what a “classic car” is varies from person to person. Oblivion tries to showcase some of the weird and overlooked cars from the recent past (though 1980 was still 40 years ago) and appeal to a younger crowd who might otherwise see the classic car scene as having left them in the rear view mirror.
Special thanks to the Oblivion Cars & Culture Show for inviting me out to such a unique and exciting event!
