Parked in front of an Austin Texas icon “The Broken Spoke” dance hall & saloon sits this old trip bus for “The Texas Top Hands Western Swing Band”. I have no idea how old this bus is. (Possibly among my readers that is a specialist in bus history can help me out there. (It would likewise be excellent if you could publish the info as a talk about my article.)) Considering that the band began in 1946 & lasted over 50 years you can nearly feel the miles of memories that must have happened around this old bus.
For those that have an interest in the technical side of my photography, I lit the bus by “light painting” it with a little LED flashlight during the 30 second exposure. (The white LED has a very blue color temperature compared to the ambient light providing the good blue highlights.) I then did a single image HDR conversion of the raw file which I then used a Topaz filter.
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