Accidental Christmas card

[James k]

A heavy snow storm started as I was driving home and I was forced to abandon my car, luckily not far from my house. I did accidentally create a great Christmas card picture, though!

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I'm terrified it's going to get smashed into now, there are cars sliding all over the place!

[svenedin]

Great photo. I do hope your Traveller is OK

[James k]

I've managed to get it back now. The Moggie made it up the hill and home while modern cars failed, due to its skinny tyres, I think.

[svenedin]

Excellent!

[ManyMinors]

I've always found the Minor very able in the snowy conditions. Good ground clearance, not too much power, skinny tyres.....
Add a bit of weight in the boot and make sure that you have some decent tread on those tyres too I have always had a spare pair of wheels fitted with "Mud and Snow" tyres ("Town and Country" tyres back in the day!). Makes a big difference. I've never really got stuck much even in quite deep snow.

[RichardA]

Looks great!

[philipkearney]

Great looking picture. One of those happy accidents. Would be even better if you could photoshop out that new Citroen in the background.

[gtt1951]

Lovely picture - you could try selling it to a Greeting Card Company. You could do a rights lease to them for a couple of years.

George.

[jagnut66]

Would be even better if you could photoshop out that new Citroen in the background.

I don't have 'photoshop' but I did have a play and came up with the below.........

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But I'm sure someone else can do better......
(Hope I haven't just made it looks like it's a heavy smoker! )
This second version, below, was created using a filter I have, which for some strange reason is called 'Denim' , I like to think it ages it slightly, though you may want to re-touch the letters to make their red colouring deeper again......

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It would be interesting to see what others can do with the original?
Best wishes,
Mike.

[gtt1951]

Yep, definitely looks like it is burning oil

I've taken the liberty of copying the image and sent it to my daughter who was a Wedding Photographer (with her husband) and still has expensive s/w to "alter" images.
I've asked if she can do the biz on this image.

George.

[philipkearney]

Looking forward to seeing that. It's amazing what can be done with a photograph these days.

[gtt1951]

And they used to say that a photo doesn't lie!

[gtt1951]

James, I've sent you a PM, George.

[James k]

Hi,

I've just got back from holiday so I've only just seen these replies. I'm glad my photo seems to have generated interest.

Jagnut, it does rather look like that on a cold start at the moment!