Photo Competition 2021-03-29: Transportation

Question

Theme

The theme of this contest is simply transportation. Trains, cars, ships, planes, bicycles, etc.

This theme was suggested by Matt.

Voting Rules

Vote up as many images as you like
Please, up votes only! Do NOT vote down your competitors! If you don't like an image, don't vote
Voting closes on March 29, 2021 at 12:01 AM UTC (00:01 UTC if you prefer a 24-hour time). The winner will be chosen based on votes at that time.

Submission Rules

One photo submission per answer. Up to three (3) entries allowed.
Post only photos taken by yourself or the person with you.
All entries should include a line of text with the location, subject, and date.
The submitted image must conform to this site's content license, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) with attribution required.
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Next Contest

Suggest a theme for the next contest. Leave a single comment below in the format,

Theme: <one sentence description>
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Theme: Up there. Subjects in the photo should be unsupported by the ground. Examples include airplanes, balloons, bubbles, water splashes, astrophotography, clouds, birds/insects/animals in flight, etc. — whackamadoodle3000, Mar 15 '21 at 02:43
Theme: Repetition: The subject of the photo should have repeated elements. Examples: A jar of marbles, a production line, a crowd. — Brian, Mar 15 '21 at 18:12
Theme: Transition. Subjects can include seasons, openings, people... Anything that's in the midst of some sort of transition from one state to another. Examples might include spring flowers in the snow; makeup being applied; car undergoing restoration... — BobT, Mar 17 '21 at 13:31
Theme: IRL Sci-Fi. Subject should be something IRL that looks like it came out of a Sci-Fi movie. :) — Vesna Sunrider, Mar 17 '21 at 22:56
@whackamadoodle3000 Great theme suggestion. It's now the current competition theme — scottbb, Mar 29 '21 at 05:16

score 42 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '21 at 09:45

42

No Parking

Our neighbours woke us up in the middle of the night with "I think you ought to come & see this…"

The Merc that the BMW came to rest against is mine. The driver had managed to lose control so spectacularly that he wrote off 6 cars on a road only 80 metres long, some much worse than you can see here, he'd managed to surf along a few.
Mine was miraculously untouched.

^{Nikon D5500 50mm 1.4 2xGodox V860II - one on-camera, the other held by the neighbour.

Sept 2017, North London.}

answered Mar 15 '21 at 09:45

Tetsujin

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Oof. I'm genuinely surprised that your car came out of this unscathed. I like this picture because it's a slice of life that most of us (thankfully) don't see every day. – ProgrammingLlama Mar 15 '21 at 09:57
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Indeed. I do have to hope it's a once in a lifetime occurrence;) It wasn't possible to tell it wasn't actually bent around my car until it was carefully pulled away. This is from the other side - https://i.stack.imgur.com/u8US7.jpg – Tetsujin Mar 15 '21 at 10:07
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Clearly a master at work. Hit all those other cars, just to make a your-car shaped space in his front end... – Zeiss Ikon Mar 15 '21 at 15:54
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I see your sleep is not easily disturbed.. :) – smcs Mar 17 '21 at 12:40
Because of the parking zoning structure around here, I don't live in ear-shot of where this happened. BTW, no drunk drivers were actually hurt in the making of this photograph… though they were arrested at the scene & probably will not be driving again for a while. There are 3 attending police cars hidden by the Beemer centre-stage in this drama. – Tetsujin Mar 17 '21 at 19:17

phuclv · Answer 2 · 2021-03-15T16:05:48.310

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Tired man after work

Ho Chi Minh city - 29-Jan-2019

edited Mar 15 '21 at 16:05

answered Mar 15 '21 at 15:26

phuclv

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RogUE · Answer 3 · 2021-03-15T18:41:10.773

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Location: Kerala, India
Subject: Aircraft
Date: 2020-07-22
Camera: Nikon D5600
f/9, 1/320, 195 mm

Waves of cloud!

edited Mar 15 '21 at 18:41

answered Mar 15 '21 at 17:24

RogUE

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whackamadoodle3000 · Answer 4 · 2021-03-15T16:41:50.060

25

Location: San Francisco

Subject: Bustling Bay Bridge

Date: 6/27/2020

edited Mar 15 '21 at 16:41

answered Mar 15 '21 at 02:37

whackamadoodle3000

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user98068 · Answer 5 · 2021-03-20T16:11:43.257

25

One-horse open sleigh

Germany, 2021-02-14

Taken with a Sony DSC-R1 compact camera, used RawTherapee for producing a JPEG from raw.

edited Mar 20 '21 at 16:11

answered Mar 15 '21 at 15:41

user98068

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Guess the shadow looks fine, but the lack of horse trails somehow makes this look totally photoshopped. – MaxD Mar 17 '21 at 15:07
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Well, the sun was low. If I had photoshopped this, I'd certainly have tried to do better than that octopus shaped shadow that overlaps so badly with the shadow from the out-of-sight fence that you cannot really decide whether all four hooves are off the ground. Also a gallopping Shetland pony makes way less of an impression on a hard snow surface than sliding tracks. Try dragging a sleigh across ground where hoof prints are prominent. No obvious boot tracks either. This is from the raw with only global adjustments. Camera JPEG is more washed-out and with less suitable white balance. – user98068 Mar 17 '21 at 15:23
I didn't actually mean it IS photoshopped, I just found it interesting that it looks so much like it could be. Guess the light is so perfect that the pony looks like a stock photo, and the fact that is has all four feet off the ground also contributes. – MaxD Mar 17 '21 at 15:38
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Well, I am not too sure about the dynamics of hooves on hard snow. You'll see some scant billows of snow near the left hooves where apparently the snow was thrown up by the hooves but it's pretty hopeless to see where the hooves may actually have touched. I guess this is one example of a photograph where you'd need to invest a bit of photoshopping in order to stop it from looking photoshopped. – user98068 Mar 17 '21 at 15:41

score 24 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 13:51

24

Subject: Tram in the Rain

Location: Milan

Date: 10/13/2016

answered Mar 15 '21 at 13:51

techolic

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score 20 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 16 '21 at 19:35

20

Riding the Tokyo Metro, Tokyo, April 2007

answered Mar 16 '21 at 19:35

Aaron F

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score 18 · Answer 8 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 09:17

18

Location: German/Czech border near Zschirnstein

Subject: Old Multi-car in a Backyard

Date: Nov 2011

answered Mar 15 '21 at 09:17

Matt

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score 18 · Answer 9 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 09:50

18

Location: Kettering
Subject: Rush hour
Date: 15/01/2020

answered Mar 15 '21 at 09:50

MiguelH

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I'm a sucker for these sorts of shots, but it doesn't appear in focus which is a shame. – spikey_richie Mar 16 '21 at 11:50
It has motion blur due to camera shake – Nayuki Mar 17 '21 at 23:47
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@Nayuki The heavy traffic created quite a lot of very noticeable vibration through the narrow bridge I was standing on. Especially the big trucks! The shutter was on a 2 second delay, so there shouldn't have been any button press related shake! – MiguelH Mar 18 '21 at 13:57

score 17 · Answer 10 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 15:38

17

Subject: Freight cars at an inland port on Mittelland Canal
Location: Nordhafen, Hannover, Germany
Date: 2012-04-23

This was a spontaneous shot on an iPhone 4s on a bike commute along the canal quite some time ago. Only afterwards I noticed the strong symmetry of the different freight cars which I enhanced by cropping the original image. I recently reedited the image to get a print of it.

answered Mar 15 '21 at 15:38

Emil

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I really like the symmetry of this shot. I keep coming back to it. +250. =) – scottbb Mar 29 '21 at 05:01

score 16 · Answer 11 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 14:49

16

The duck hawker

Ho Chi Minh city - 29-Dec-2019

answered Mar 15 '21 at 14:49

phuclv

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Folks, please respect the contest rules and do not downvote. Thanks. – scottbb Mar 15 '21 at 21:45
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Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. – scottbb Mar 16 '21 at 20:35

score 15 · Answer 12 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 11:14

15

Location: Devon, UK

Subject: Abandoned Industrial Rail Line

Date: 2016/11/03

answered Mar 15 '21 at 11:14

hotmailcompany52

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score 14 · Answer 13 · answered Mar 17 '21 at 15:45

14

Abandoned bus at the Pripyat police station, 07-Aug-2019 (my first time properly using a camera, I bought it specifically for the trip)

answered Mar 17 '21 at 15:45

Jordan Wall

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PAZ-672, it seems. – Zeus Mar 18 '21 at 03:00

score 12 · Answer 14 · answered Mar 16 '21 at 01:17

12

Location: Georgia Strait

Subject: Freighter

Date: January 2021

answered Mar 16 '21 at 01:17

Bodkin's Best Photography

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score 11 · Answer 15 · edited Mar 16 '21 at 20:37

11

Mid-intersection waiting

Location: Silom Road in Bangkok

Date taken: 15 March 2021

8 seconds, f/7.1, ISO 100, and zoomed in 73mm (not sure if that's correct or some equivalency measure, but that's what it says in the RAW file) using a Sony RX10M3.

edited Mar 16 '21 at 20:37

scottbb

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answered Mar 16 '21 at 03:32

JJJ

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score 11 · Answer 16 · answered Mar 16 '21 at 23:46

11

Location: Los Angeles

Subject: Metro railcar storage

Date: January 24, 2020

enter image description here

answered Mar 16 '21 at 23:46

SP812

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score 10 · Answer 17 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 04:47

10

Under the Hood

Location: Knoxville, TN

Subject: The under side of the open hood of a Chevy Hotrod

Date: 2019-04-19

answered Mar 15 '21 at 04:47

LightBender

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score 10 · Answer 18 · answered Mar 16 '21 at 23:48

10

Location: Somewhere above the pacific

Subject: Commercial airplane row

Date: June 27, 2019

Shot with Olympus OM-1 on Ilford HP5 Plus

enter image description here

answered Mar 16 '21 at 23:48

SP812

393
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score 9 · Answer 19 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 19:06

9

Subject: Kings Highway Interlocking,
Location: BMT Brighton Line, New York City
Date: September 26, 2020

Taken on a Pixel 4 while waiting for the train (seen in the photo on the local track) to arrive.

answered Mar 15 '21 at 19:06

nanofarad

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score 9 · Answer 20 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 19:26

9

Subject: Manhattan Bridge,
Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY
Date: October 9, 2020

answered Mar 15 '21 at 19:26

nanofarad

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score 8 · Answer 21 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 18:11

8

Vision of a cloud through a moving tree, transporting dreams in a train water in clouds, electricity in cables. The tree and the movement act like filters to see the clouds.

On the train between Firenze i Siena, Italia, 27th of april 2012.

answered Mar 15 '21 at 18:11

Soleil

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Folks, please respect the rules and do not downvote. Thanks. – scottbb Mar 17 '21 at 23:54

score 8 · Answer 22 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 19:04

8

Location: Auckland Airport

Subject: Abandoned airport scene

Date: 2019-05-19

Original

answered Mar 15 '21 at 19:04

l0b0

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score 8 · Answer 23 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 20:20

8

Location: Vienna

Date: 2014-03-25

Subject: Horse drawn carriage

answered Mar 15 '21 at 20:20

Baz

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score 8 · Answer 24 · answered Mar 17 '21 at 15:14

8

Location: Greifswald, Germany

Subject: Regional express train

Date: 14.08.2012

answered Mar 17 '21 at 15:14

Erik

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score 7 · Answer 25 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 15:30

7

Cotton candy man

Ho Chi Minh city - 11-Dec-2020

answered Mar 15 '21 at 15:30

phuclv

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score 7 · Answer 26 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 15:59

7

Tokyo, Commuters on their way home, October 2019

answered Mar 15 '21 at 15:59

Saaru Lindestøkke

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score 7 · Answer 27 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 22:39

7

Location: Sydney, Australia

Subject: VW Beetle under a No Stopping Sign

Date: 2021-03-01 @ 5:31PM

answered Mar 15 '21 at 22:39

Jobbo

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Police officer: The sign says "No Stopping". Driver: You tell that to the car! – FreeMan Mar 17 '21 at 16:23

score 6 · Answer 28 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 13:42

6

Location: Istanbul, Straits of Bosphorus

Subject: Safe And Sound

Date: February 3rd, 2021

Shot on Ilford Hp5+ 400 film, pushed twice to 1600 ISO on Canon AE-1 Program. Self developed with Ilfosol developer

answered Mar 15 '21 at 13:42

Boluc Papuccuoglu

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score 5 · Answer 29 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 16:01

5

Inland Sea of Japan, Ferry between Shodoshima and Naoshima, October 2019

answered Mar 15 '21 at 16:01

Saaru Lindestøkke

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score 5 · Answer 30 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 21:41

5

Tram from Wimbledon crosses over River Wandle on edge of Morden Hall Park. London, England. 9th March 2021

answered Mar 15 '21 at 21:41

Wade B

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score 5 · Answer 31 · answered Mar 17 '21 at 02:50

5

An Italian masterpiece with a German heart.

This image was taken at Toronto Motorsports Park Cayuga, in Cayuga, Ontario Canada on September 27th, 2017.

Pagani Huayra BC

answered Mar 17 '21 at 02:50

HudsonGraeme

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be still my heart. The interior of that car is an absolute work of art. – scottbb Mar 17 '21 at 02:54
@scottbb what's the car model? – An old man in the sea. Mar 18 '21 at 00:57
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@Anoldmaninthesea. The Pagani Huayra. It has manumatic paddle shifters, if you really want them. But the machined exposed shifter mechanism is just... gorgeous. – scottbb Mar 18 '21 at 01:30
@scottbb very nice! – An old man in the sea. Mar 18 '21 at 10:12

score 4 · Answer 32 · answered Mar 16 '21 at 19:39

4

The daily commute. Mumbai, India. January 2010.

answered Mar 16 '21 at 19:39

Aaron F

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Deagle50 · Answer 33 · 2021-03-17T11:23:39.627

4

Location: Amsterdam
Subject: Pirate ship
Date: May 2017
Camera: Redmi 4 Prime, I lost the original photo so idk it's metadata.

Pirate ship on Amsterdam

edited Mar 17 '21 at 11:23

answered Mar 17 '21 at 11:17

Deagle50

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score 4 · Answer 34 · answered Mar 18 '21 at 06:21

4

Location: Istanbul

Subject: Streetcar

Date: 09/2012

answered Mar 18 '21 at 06:21

Paul Kertscher

141
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score 4 · Answer 35 · answered Mar 18 '21 at 18:42

4

Preston, UK

Train Tracks

December 2020

answered Mar 18 '21 at 18:42

Tom Royle

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score 3 · Answer 36 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 02:30

3

Location: San Francisco

Subject: Bridging the Gap

Date: 6/29/2020

answered Mar 15 '21 at 02:30

whackamadoodle3000

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score 3 · Answer 37 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 19:02

Location: Bodø, Norway

Subject: Hurtigruten arriving at Bodø for the Constitution Day celebration

Date: 2019-05-17

Barely visible in the near background are the cannoneers who just fired a salute from Nyholmen Skandse. The far background is Lille Hjartøya.

Original

score 3 · Answer 38 · answered Mar 16 '21 at 03:28

3

Police escort for quarantine arrivals

Location: Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok

Date taken: 12 March 2021

answered Mar 16 '21 at 03:28

JJJ

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score 3 · Answer 39 · answered Mar 17 '21 at 10:33

3

Three Friends

Location: Lisbon
Subject: Jaguar E-type, Morris Mini, Jaguar Mark VII
Date: July 2020

answered Mar 17 '21 at 10:33

Crowley

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score 3 · Answer 40 · answered Mar 17 '21 at 13:06

3

Location: Nottingham Canal
Subject: Canal Boats
Date: 15th March 2021

answered Mar 17 '21 at 13:06

Adam Oldfield

51
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score 3 · Answer 41 · answered Mar 18 '21 at 04:50

3

Robot's Revenge

enter image description here

Paris metro, automatic driverless line. October 2009.

answered Mar 18 '21 at 04:50

Zeus

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score 3 · Answer 42 · answered Mar 22 '21 at 15:28

3

This image was made on the bow of a cruise ship at 5:30am as it was docking at San Francisco.

answered Mar 22 '21 at 15:28

frank

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score 2 · Answer 43 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 19:23

2

Location: Toronto

Subject: Eager to Leave vs Eager to Get Home

Date: 2020-10-18

answered Mar 15 '21 at 19:23

Koray Tugay

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Folks, please respect the rules and do not downvote. Thanks. – scottbb Mar 17 '21 at 23:53
@scottbb I do not think anyone downvoted? – Koray Tugay Mar 18 '21 at 01:30
Unfortunately, one person did. =( – scottbb Mar 18 '21 at 01:32

score 2 · Answer 44 · answered Mar 17 '21 at 03:30

2

Nightly garbage collection

Location: Silom Road in Bangkok

Date taken: 15 March 2021

5 second exposure, f/4, ISO 100, and zoomed in 214mm using a Sony RX10M3.

answered Mar 17 '21 at 03:30

JJJ

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score 2 · Answer 45 · answered Mar 17 '21 at 08:45

2

Rainy Day at the Airport.

Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner. Munich Airport (MUC), April 2017.

answered Mar 17 '21 at 08:45

user24582

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score 2 · Answer 46 · answered Mar 18 '21 at 12:06

2

Location: Preston Subject: Train line Date: 26th December 2020

enter image description here

answered Mar 18 '21 at 12:06

Adam Oldfield

51
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score 2 · Answer 47 · answered Mar 18 '21 at 17:10

2

Vasa

Vasa Museum, Stockholm (Sweden)
July 2005

For more info: Vasa (Wikipedia)

answered Mar 18 '21 at 17:10

Vance

21
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score 2 · Answer 48 · answered Mar 18 '21 at 18:34

2

Auschwitz, Poland

Train that transported Jews to their unknowing death at Auschwitz concentration camp

December 2019

answered Mar 18 '21 at 18:34

Tom Royle

61
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score 2 · Answer 49 · answered Mar 20 '21 at 12:23

2

Abandoned car in Oulanka National Park, Finland
12|05|2020

Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mk II
f3.6 | 1/50s | ISO 100 | 15mm

answered Mar 20 '21 at 12:23

Joachim

161
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score 2 · Answer 50 · answered Mar 21 '21 at 09:51

2

Slithering

Erwin Wurm's Misconceivable next to the Middelheim castle in Antwerp, Belgium.
12|07|2020

Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mk II
f/8 | 1/80s | ISO 200 | 45mm

answered Mar 21 '21 at 09:51

Joachim

161
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score 1 · Answer 51 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 02:18

1

Location: Moss Landing

Subject: Bonsai Boats

Date: 10/4/2020

answered Mar 15 '21 at 02:18

whackamadoodle3000

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Folks, please respect the rules and do not downvote. Thanks. – scottbb Mar 17 '21 at 23:53

score 1 · Answer 52 · answered Mar 28 '21 at 01:40

1

Location: Utrecht, Netherlands Subject: Man navigates a canal in style. Date: 23/7/2019

The Dutch really know how to take it easy on a summer day.

answered Mar 28 '21 at 01:40

score 0 · Answer 53 · answered Mar 16 '21 at 22:57

0

Location: Dayton, KY

Subject: Empty tracks

Date: Feb 2021

answered Mar 16 '21 at 22:57

maples

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score 0 · Answer 54 · answered Mar 18 '21 at 16:45

0

Traffic jam in Jumeirah

Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE
September 2005

answered Mar 18 '21 at 16:45

Vance

21
1

Austin · Answer 55 · 2021-03-19T06:10:54.600

0

Cross on a Truck

March 11th
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sony Alpha 7S III + Sony FE 85mm F1.4
ISO 800 | 85 mm | ƒ/2.8 | 1/2500 s

edited Mar 19 '21 at 06:10

answered Mar 19 '21 at 06:04

Austin

101
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score 0 · Answer 56 · answered Mar 19 '21 at 09:50

0

Classic Cars exhibition

London, UK
10 July 2010

answered Mar 19 '21 at 09:50

Vance

21
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Photo Competition 2021-03-29: Transportation

Theme

Voting Rules

Submission Rules

Next Contest

56 Answers56

No Parking

Tired man after work

One-horse open sleigh

The duck hawker

Mid-intersection waiting

Under the Hood

Cotton candy man

An Italian masterpiece with a German heart.

Police escort for quarantine arrivals

Three Friends

Robot's Revenge

Nightly garbage collection

Vasa

Slithering

Traffic jam in Jumeirah

Cross on a Truck

Classic Cars exhibition