Yes its not intended to be junk, and the price was ok-ish. Here in Belgium we have rather strong regulations regarding road-worthy old-timers, say classic cars. This was my son’s old-timer for 17 years. Originally made in Antwerp 1972…
Oh yes, this car used about 17 liters , so with the current energy prices … … … … … …
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Nice color grading!
I’d like to know what the Hungarian is for those two words… lets try DeepL… csatahajó és benzinfaló? 
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First one looks like a japanese drawing. Just missing the haiku
csatahajó is correct; instead of benzinfaló, we’d use benzinzabáló, even though both falni and zabálni mean to gobble/wolf (the -ni ending forms the infinitive), so they are about eating (greedily), rather than about drinking. zabálni also conveys a sense of disgust for me (which is certainly not something I’d associate with that car, BTW). Someone who fal could just be extremely hungry; someone who zabál makes a lot of mess and behaves distastefully.
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Back home after ten days of living in a tent. Son and I chased the DR&G #315 charter over some very “interesting” forest service roads:
And the next day we rode the #168 charter:
I continue to squeeze off inadvertent exposures; here’s one of my son, from the opposite seat:
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Thank you @kofa! I don’t suppose I’ll ever visit Hungary but I love learning about small things like that. Trying to think of an english equivalent, but finding it hard…
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My wife and I went to Mena, Arkansas for the long (US) holiday weekend, both for the time off and for a visit with family. I brought my camera and visited the Little Missouri Falls about 45 miles from where we were staying at the Queen Wilhelmina Lodge atop Rich Mountain.
Naturally I forgot my rubber boots at home so I was a little limited on viewpoint …unless I wanted to totally soak my feet / socks / shoes / jeans, which I didn’t (other activities were planned for the afternoon).
Anyway, it made for a couple of OK-ish shots.
Down in the steep narrow valley where the falls live, the bright sunshine of this clear-sky day had yet to reach the bottom.
Higher up the cascade the sun was starting to encroach as it continued to rise.
Canon T8i / 850D
Sigma 17-70 f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro & Canon EF 70-200L f/4 USM
ART 1.20, Affinity Photo 2.1
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One more from our Arkansas weekend, although technically this was taken in Oklahoma.
The Memorial Day weekend sun sets over the Kiamichi Range in eastern Oklahoma, taken from (the appropriately-named) Sunset Vista on the Talimena Scenic Drive. A stack of three bracketed shots.
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is it disqualified?
No photo that good should be disqualified from anything 
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It’s like a big animal leading its offspring.
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Lake “B” at sunrise (Camp Beauregard WMA, Pineville, LA)
Well, my photographic version of junkie / addict behavior continues… 
I.e., Just to get a “shutter button fix” I take shots of mundane subject matter that don’t super-excite me at the time, then try to pull a rabbit from a hat during post-processing to paste-on a thin veneer of legitimacy. That’s particularly ironic given my limited processing skills!
Anyway, on a whim (well, actually I set my alarm) I got up at 5 AM and drove 20 minutes over to a small lake in case there was anything to the sunrise. It was brutally clear, so I didn’t wait for the sun to rise, but the blue hour shots I took turned out a bit better than I expected. Maybe I’m starting to believe my own “magic tricks”? 
I’ve shot this lone (and long-dead) tree remnant before, but it adds a point of focus to an otherwise almost “subject-less” subject.
Here’s looking the other way, but I kind of like the snaking shoreline and the little snags sticking out of the water.
Just for comparison, I guess, here’s a pano in roughly the same direction as the previous shot.
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OK, two more and I’ll stop. I promise.
Sign of desperation! Why else would I be out in the middle of the day shooting cypress trees in a Louisiana swamp? LOL
It’s not the summer solstice yet, but it’s definitely turning summer here in the deep south. About 93F / 34C out there this afternoon. At least there was a breeze, which was part of the problem: Bright sunlight, deep shadows, tiny details and breeze. So I need a faster shutter speed, hence the slightly elevated ISO and incrementally increased noise. Cypress trees are inherently fuzzy with tiny little leaves, so it looks (even more) out of focus.
Anyway, that’s just excuses… 
Going green! It’s really very green in the swamp right now. This has that old 1950s “picture postcard” color.
Still alive, at least for the moment. That’s water around it, by the way, not soil…
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Well, we are only at 24C, but for Scotland that is seriously hot. A cloudless sky and harsh shadows, the only thing to do is to take a walk through the forests.
EDIT: One of the other things I do is to make bread. I refreshed my sourdough starters last night before I went to bed, only to find them trying to escape from their jars this morning…
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