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An Adventurous Photograph 1

By Lewis Clarke

BEING quite a way out from the town testing out my new SLR on the second day I'd had it - and getting a bug stuck in the viewfinder on the same day in a nearby square - I was happily wandering around in the countryside by myself miles away from the main town and from civilisation.
As I walked down a steep hill a Land Rover passed, stopped, and reversed back up the road. A man with long hair and a dog peered at me through the window.
"Are you the chap that does all the videos in the town?" He said. I have done several things like that for a website and wondered why he would go through all the effort of reversing back up the hill to ask me that.
"Are you looking for the burnt out car?"
"What burnt out car?"
"The burnt out car. The car was stolen and they came up here last night, drove around the field breaking a fence, and torched the car. The engine has gone missing since last night when it took two fire crews to put out the blaze."
I didn't know the man, nor did I have any clue about a burnt out car. His dog had to take a seat in the back as I joined him in his car as he took me to a grey, ash filled site with the metal wreck on its side with a broken fence nearby.
An interesting story leading to an interesting photograph which would later be nominated in the PotW shortlist (or GotW nomination).


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Mon, 29 Nov 2010 at 01:03
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