MOT Visit – Photo Therapy

          Unable to do anything but wait at the Showroom whilst my car has its MOT Inspection Carried out, I resort to the only activity guaranteed to relieve any Stress or Boredom – taking pictures!

          As I always bring a camera along in case there are new vehicles which might interest me, I came with the handy small camera ideal for such occasions, the Lumix FZ10002, which allows for wideangle through to telephoto, so after taking a wander both upstairs and down, I then went outside and found a suitable break in the hedge to reach the path alongside the Parking Area where New and Secondhand Models are located, and chose a few vantage points that highlight the architecture of the Building. Sadly the light was less than ideal, as there was edge to edge Cloudy Gloom, but these photos were not destined for a glossy brochure, but simply an exercise in viewpoint selection to make the best of the interesting design, it mattered not.

          The end result is a 5x3 grid of pictures that allowed me to breathe fresh air,  remain calm, and lessen the time spent till I was called to sign off and pay for my Service. I was able to do this earlier than I had feared, so duly grateful. In return, Perhaps someone looking at the blog might even pay Thurlow Nunn a visit as a result of seeing the shots of the building inside and out…

Thurlow Nunn Milton Keynes, Welcome Quality Architecture

I recently bought a secondhand car from Thurlow Nunn, Milton Keynes, and am pleased with my purchase and the service I received, but more than anything else it was the architecture of their Showroom that appealed to my senses as a photographer, and whilst collecting a replaced key for the vehicle, decided it was worth asking the management there if I might take some photos. David Hyde their Sales Manager was happy to oblige.

So I went back and collected my camera gear and returned to see what I could record to allow others to see what had appealed to me, I also needed to test the latest version of CamRanger, so brought along my iPad and set it up at Reception so that the receptionist could get an idea of what I was shooting (and anyone else who might be concerned) it performed flawlessly as I moved around both at ground level and up on the balcony where some of the new cars are displayed.

By the time I had finished I was bathed in perspiration, because at one stage I moved one of the very heavy display stands that gives the specifications of the vehicle  it is alongside, and yes, I put it carefully back where it had been! I took some shots that were duplicated and some that were intended to be brackets for an HDR, but they failed, so forty usable shots from sixty shot might have seemed a poor success rate, but I was keen to get as good verticals as possible, and in some instances my exposure was off, so forty makes a nice 8x5 grid in the gallery.

It is a handsome and flexible workspace as I had witnessed at the promotional day where I succumbed to the buying of my car, and I hope I have captured this in the shots taken this afternoon, and I can but hope that something may come my way to warrant the effort I have put in. Thurlow Nunn hopefully will at least point to the gallery when suggesting  what a visitor to the showroom would be seeing on arrival.