The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: car wash

A chance observation of a charitable endeavour. I don't yet know why the scene reminds me of the work of Sir Stanley Spencer. He once said' "Love is the essential power in the creation of art and love is not a talent. Love reveals and more accurately describes the nature and meaning of things than any mere lecture on technique can do. And it establishes once and for all time the final and perfect identity of every created thing." Another word for "charity" is "love". QED.

The art of Stanley Spencer exhibited in Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere, near Newbury, came to mind when I cropped a significantly larger picture of a charity car wash and revealed this detail.

This photograph was made using a Nikon D700 with the 50mm f/2 Nikkor AI. The lens is rather good.

The first conveyorized automatic car washes were apparently introduced in the late 1930s. They have a bad reputation for dislodging aerials and wing mirrors, and scratching paintwork - I don't know if it is deserved or not. I have noticed many 'hand car washes' springing up. I don't patronise them either. I have a bucket and a sponge and a hosepipe. It's therapeutic.

I had a brainwave. Instead of attempting to photograph the car wash through the hedge, I'd photograph it over the hedge.

Things noticed at the margin of a relief road.