This post is in loving memory of my uncle Richard F. McCrossin.  May you rest in the peace that the Lord gives you - and please, don't give God too much of a hard time...

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 was his funeral.  Driving in the procession out to Calverton National Cemetary in Riverhead NY, I spot this old truck on the side of the road.  After the service my cousin Richard and Lori asked if I saw the truck.  I told them that I did and I planned to come back at night to shoot it before I left.  They wanted to go with.

All I had with me was my 40D and Tamron 28-75.  No tripod, no remote shutter...  Fortunately Walmart sells a tripod, which is only marginally better than hand holding...  But they have a great return policy, so I went that route.

Borrowed a flashlight from my Aunt Barbara, and the 3 of us were off...

It was pretty cold and windy this evening.  I think we were out of the car for maybe 20 or so minutes.  I had to shoot this in 7 frames as I was limited to 30 seconds for a shutter speed and couldn't light all of the parts that I wanted to in that amount of time.  By the time we were done with this comp, my fingers were numb - so there was no doing another angle...

F2.8, ISO400, 30seconds for each of the 7 frames.  Stacked and masked in PS-CS5E...