Miata Photos

Lina Rosio

Lina RosioWhen I was making The Emperor’s New Screensaver #2, I wanted to find out what Lina Rosio meant so I could use it for the title, so I Googled it.

The first 4 hits were places selling the poster where I learned it was by someone named Choppy and I guessed he was French. Tried plugging in Lina Rosio in a translation tool, French to English, with no luck, came back as lina rosio. Hmmm, sounds Spanish. A Spanish to English try netted the same results. Trying Portuguese, I found out Lina means linen, but nothing for Rosio. Lina is a Chinese name that means beautiful woman. I googled for rosio and that lead me to the Urban Dictionary. Lina – Nice beautiful young woman and Rosio – A girl that is funny, cool, sexy, and everything else. She also can be a firecracker if you get in her face to long. Somehow I think this poster predates the UD, maybe it’s definitions have been influenced by this poster? Or by the Chinese? Giving up, I just titled the image Lina Rosio.

Back to Google, my Miata gallery with the image was at #9. At number 5 was a fellow’s Flickr page of the same poster but in a different town in SC. His photo came from Walhalla about 60 miles northwest of Abbeville where mine was taken. Right after my number nine return was the Flickr RSS feed of someone named Genipher who has an image of the same poster and hers was taken in Abbeville too.

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Calendar Car

Finished up the images for my 2007 Emperor Calendar. It is titled Must Have Been Those 400 Acid Trips I Took because I have taken some of my photos of the Miata and ran them through a few different Paint Shop Pro filters to give them that slightly twisted look. See the Miata – 2007 Calendar gallery on the side bar a preview.

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2007 Miata Calendar

Old NewspaperFor the past couple of years I’ve made up a nifty wall calendar using images of the Emperor I have taken over the previous year. You can see the images I have used by clicking on the appropriate link under Photos in the sidebar.

This year I haven’t been taking that many photos of the car, so I don’t think I’ll have 12 that will be calendar worthy. I do have about half enough, but even then, that is stretching the suitability envelope. While monkeying around with some of the possibles I hit upon a strategy that might work for 2007 – photoshopped images. This way I can go back and maybe use some outtakes from earlier photoshoots. I can possibly turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse. Well, I’ll be the judge of that…

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I’ve Fallen Off The Wagon

Garnet, SC 29922I’ve been driving by a lot of cute little ones lately. They have been calling out to me, “Take my picture. Take my picture. Come on, you know I’m cute. The light is right and the car is clean. What are you waiting for?” We have driven by this little Post Office numerous times on our trips to, and from, Hilton Head and every time I see it I note the name and it’s correlation to the Emperor’s “official” color name. And every time I see it I am tempted to stop. This time I did. A Garnet Red Mica Miata in front of the Garnett, SC 29922 Post Office.

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Guest Judge Anyone?

Voting is well underway in the 2nd Annual “My Favorite Miata Photo” Contest. If you haven’t voted yet please do, polls close this Sunday at noon eastern time. Because that is open to anyone to vote it is more of a popularity contest and it looks like there are photographers with a lot of friends, of the 382 votes so far they have 200 (53.2%) of them.

I was hoping for a more artistic judging on the photos and wasn’t getting it, so seeing as it is my contest I created a separate prize category for some Judge’s Choice awards. I picked my favorite 8 photos and emailed all eight of the photographers and asked them to rate the entries. They should omit their photo and rank the other seven in order from #1-their favorite to #7-their least favorite. I would award a sliding scale to their rankings with more points awarded for first and less points for each successive lower rank.

So far I have received 5 of 8 replies, if any of you would like to be a guest judge to fill in the three vacancies please do. Go to this gallery to see just the eight finalists and email me your rankings from top to bottom. Because you get to rank all 8 I’ll be tossing out the last one. Ballots will be accepted in the order in which they are received. Of course if all three of the official judges eventually reply yours will get tossed out like so many hanging chads.

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Andy Jones

Andy JonesWashed the car this morning in preparation for today’s MMC gathering for the Sno-Cap Drive In’s 42nd Anniversary. We had a pretty decent showing of cars, six, but all of us were late arrivals, so we were beat to the shady spots under the awning by the Corvettes and the VWs.

I was a few minutes late because I stopped for an impromptu photo shoot at the empty Andy Jones car dealer lot. Andy Jones opened a Mazda dealership in Aiken a year or so after I bought my first Miata. A couple years later they moved 15 miles west to this shop in North Augusta. Now they have packed up and moved 20 miles further west to Augusta, GA.

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Mushrooms Sprouting in Reprocessed Hay

SunburstsThis morning we braved the sticky weather to go for a 2 mile walk in the woods, instead of our usual 10 mile Sunday morning bike ride. Afterwards we continued the alternative Sunday by getting a bagel at the Atlanta Bread Company instead of a muffing at the New Moon Cafe. I took a couple photos on our walk, including one that matched this post’s title, but in retrospect, even though she pointed out the image to me, Donna felt I shouldn’t put it here.

So tonight, when we went out to do a little shopping and get some gas, I brought the camera along to find a my suitable picture. This one was taken outside of CVS and after a little digital manipulation…

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