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Thomas Stellwag

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servicing an E scooter
« on: July 12, 2015, 18:24:44 »
2 old friends,  "Mr. Norton" and "Mr. Guzzi"  servicing a cheap chinese E scooter
after looking at them for a while and having a lot of fun between us with all the unnecessary comments about that masterpiece of engineering I went back to my car and took the cam to  get some pics of the final assembly and test drive

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Re: servicing an E scooter
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2015, 22:23:32 »
the final image is priceless :)
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« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2015, 22:51:08 »
AND IT WORKS!!!

I love watching craftsmen at work. This got my imagination creating the dialog between the two.
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Re: servicing an E scooter
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2015, 10:35:37 »
thank you Jakov and Gary for your comments
the last is my fav as well -  my title for it would be:  born to be wild
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Re: servicing an E scooter
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2015, 11:06:42 »
I really like this series, very well captured.
I also like the old posters in their workshop, scenes from a bygone era!
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« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2015, 11:16:55 »
I also like this series great stuff!

Close to home as I'm up there with them.  8)

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« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2015, 12:55:10 »
Thomas,
It is a great series ....and the last image is wonderful. Proof "pictures paint a thousand words".

My preference is Black and White, but it would add a timeless element to these.

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Re: servicing an E scooter
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2015, 15:21:47 »
thanks Mike and Bez for commenting

i am not shure if BW would make it, the wall decoration doesn´t look better with it

i have added 3 BW´s one with a lot of background - here i am not shure about the look and 2 with more face concentration - here I like it


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Re: servicing an E scooter
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2015, 19:32:17 »
I would hang out with those gents all day long, must be fun :)
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« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2015, 20:03:42 »
definitely needs to be B&W for me. Just WORKS !
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Re: servicing an E scooter
« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2015, 20:57:08 »
Thanks for commenting

@ Jakov, you can come over and take a REHEGU session (REd wine HEligon GUzzi), the museum, privately owned by "the pilot" of the scooter has somewhere between 200 and 300 motorbikes, a lot in red, I will post some day pictures of the Guzzi corner
@ Elsa, why do i pay so much money for a bayer pattern filter and then destroy its result  :P .... no you are probably right, like Bez is. These pictures look no too bad on a big screen in BW with grain added, but i am not able to bring this into a 1000px image, thus i still think here the original colour version is more informative than a bad BW transformation. But i accept fully your point, because there is a big difference in viewing the pictures: here you see just a short impression of something you forget in an hour, so you prefer the impressive, graphic version and i see friends of over 40 years restoring and finetuning motorbikes. The same image has a totally different function and i am more than happy that some people take the time to tell me what they (don´t) see. Thx.
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Re: servicing an E scooter
« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2015, 21:15:50 »
Thomas, it looks like we will be organizing a NikonGear get-together just 200km away in the Black Forest end of September. So who knows, I might drop buy and visit.
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« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2015, 21:27:50 »
Thomas, I hear you - and I thought that might be what you were thinking - hence me saying - for me. It just goes to show how different we all look at images, and what different stories we see. But thats good :)
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« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2015, 17:48:58 »
B&W!

Elsa and I see alike.  8)
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« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2015, 18:02:52 »
Great PJ work. I can smell them ;-)
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