Chris Nelson

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Socially awkward penguin, rollin' hard in the land of fediverse chicks and reply guys.
Here we are now, entertain us…

A few weeks ago I helped produce a car show in my downtown. It was an impossible amount of work to pull off, but we not only pulled it off, we put on a stunner of a show that's left car enthusiasts and the general public alike raving about how much fun it was.

Besides helping to organize it, I was also the photographer for the show. Here are some of my shots from the show.

I'm not sure how I got so deep into doing something like a car show. I don't even like cars.

#photography #carshow #classiccars

📷 June 28, 2024

#FediversalPictures

Hi y’all!! Who’s #SaltingTheVibes ? Are #YallMasking today? 😷🥰

I decided to take advantage of yesterday's rainy/cooler weather and visited #Shenandoah National Park. I hiked the Rose River Falls loop and the Bearfence Scramble. The weather was perfect – very foggy and slightly drizzly. And the waterfalls were gushing from the recent rainfall!

Rose River Falls is one of my favorites in the park. It’s not too easy or too hard, and it follows the river most of the time so you can constantly hear the gorgeous rushing water. Plus it always has the coolest mushrooms. It’s also a sentimental hike for me, as its the one I did the day my grandmother passed away. I’ve hiked it countless times, and it never gets old.

Bearfence is a short trail, only a mile long, but it has a ton of super fun rock scramble. As adults we don’t get to climb nearly enough, and you forget how fun it can be! The summit has a beautiful 360 degree mountain view, though it was completely obfuscated by the fog yesterday. I like tacking this one on to my day when I do shorter hikes in the park, to add a little more mileage and some fun.

#hiking #nature #naturephotography #waterfall #fog #river #amateurphotography

Lucky enough to have a bit of a breeze blowing at the moment, so have been doing some gardening. Finished up with the usual chasing bees around with the camera. It's a hobby.

#photography #bloomScrolling #bees

An Art Nouveau style Peacock on top of a building on Buchanan Street in Glasgow. It was created by Alan Dawson in the late 1980s as part of the rennovation of the former Prince of Wales building, designed by John Baird and built in 1854, which now contains the Princes Square shopping centre.

#glasgow #buchananstreet #peacock #artnouveau #princessquare #sculpture #publicart

Silbury hill is just amazing

Ooh, I actually have something for #ShowMeYourKnits!

This week, the prompt is garter stitch, and I'm still really enjoying the meditative nature of the ten stitch twist blanket!

#KnitLove #Glimmers #KnittingIsMeditation

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Onto the mature motors that arrived. This Chev

#WeirdCarMastodon
#Cars
#Carshow
#Carsandcoffee

Rovers come in many shapes and sizes

#WeirdCarMastodon
#Cars
#Carshow
#Carsandcoffee

I think that Holden was a rebadged Isuzu?

#WeirdCarMastodon
#Cars
#Carshow
#Carsandcoffee

Nice to see some Daihatsus, there's a brand rarely seen at shows.

#WeirdCarMastodon
#Cars
#Carshow
#Carsandcoffee

We saw that pink Caddy at the Good Friday cars & coffee across town.

That blue on the Falcon was utterly glorious in the sunshine.

#WeirdCarMastodon
#Cars
#Carshow
#Carsandcoffee

They just kept on coming in! And such excellent makes and models. Great mix.

#WeirdCarMastodon
#Cars
#Carshow
#Carsandcoffee

Holdens, git yer Holdens here.

#WeirdCarMastodon
#Cars
#Carshow
#Carsandcoffee

And then a flock of Bolwells appeared! More on these further down thread as there's an interesting story I need to share.

#WeirdCarMastodon
#Cars
#Carshow
#Carsandcoffee

A flock of Mokes arrived, I was busily sending photos to my friend with a Moke saying WHERE THE HELL ARE YA

#WeirdCarMastodon
#Cars
#Carshow
#Carsandcoffee

Mokes? So many Mokes! Even a Mini Moke! So very cool.

#WeirdCarMastodon
#Cars
#Carshow
#Carsandcoffee

Soo those Bowells! Ok so Bolwell was a kit car made here in Melbourne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolwell

And this bulbous one is one that almost never existed.

#WeirdCarMastodon
#Cars
#Carshow
#Carsandcoffee

Just extraordinary to be able to see something so rare and unusual. Not that there's many of the other models left around. All fibreglass, they are an interesting part of Australian motoring history that many not know exists.

#WeirdCarMastodon
#Cars
#Carshow
#Carsandcoffee

Old and new, they kept on coming in. Curiously, the only Lotus that turned up.

#WeirdCarMastodon
#Cars
#Carshow
#Carsandcoffee

@vwdasher The Lotus is not real - it clearly says "CGI" on the license plate.

/s

@vwdasher That purple Challenger is stunning.
@captainb more cars need to be purple!
@vwdasher Suzuki Jimny! Though there were also Holden-badged Isuzus in the early ’90s.
@autonerdery I know, they did so much wacky stuff, I am honestly not sure if it's a Suzuki or Isuzu! or even something else?