JPG Magazine: Photos: "For Sale?" by Joycee Donado

For Sale?

By Joycee Donado

On 13 April 2008

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With the continuing hike of gas prices and with my conscientious effort to be green, I am contemplating to sell my car which is a big gas guzzler (plus it uses the premium grade gasoline, too). With my gallivanting nature, I spend almost about $250 /month on gas alone. :(

So there I was on a Saturday night, taking photos of my lovely car so that I can use them to put it up on sale.

I opened up those photos today and it made me think twice… or more.

I really love this car and I don’t want to part ways with it yet. Well, maybe I should just start biking more to work. ;)

What do you think? :)

21 Responses

On 13 April 2008 Serge Golub gave props:
Beautiful RX-8, with an even better sky behind it. Keep it!
On 13 April 2008 jim simonson said:
save the car
bike to work
mpls use to have great bike paths
(i lived there a long time back)
oh
great pic of that car!
On 13 April 2008 Steven Heipel said:
Yah, keep the car -- just use it less. Walk, bike, transit. I only use my car to get out of town -- 1993 (also a mazda) with less than 115,000 km on it!
Nice shot.
On 13 April 2008 Kirk Hille said:
Great shot and nice car .
I had to sell my XR6 Turbo a year ago .
Saved me heaps on money but still miss driving it
On 13 April 2008 Albert Dickson gave props:
Sweet Car Shot. Mazda may pay enough for this shot to keep you in fuel:)
On 14 April 2008 Chris Whitney said:
Joyce-sometimes, the best choice is to transition into change. Start biking to offset the car use-you will enjoy it(except winter). Then re-assess.
On 14 April 2008 Jeff Clark gave props:
Fantastic lighting and tones!
On 14 April 2008 Tonya Doughty said:
fantastic photo. keep the car, bike to work.
On 14 April 2008 Joycee Donado said:
At least 5 says for me to keep it. WHEW! :)
Most of my friends who aren't into photography said they'll have it for $50. :p One even said that it will sell at a higher price given this photo! I told her, there's still bluebook or NADA to check.
I suppose I can bike more now that winter is over (crossing my fingers so that I don't jinx myself). Thank you so much all for the feedback! :)
@Albert: I wish I can sell this to Mazda for a hefty price. ;)
On 14 April 2008 David Swatton said:
Good car, even better photo. Keep the car - give up something else!
On 14 April 2008 Joycee Donado said:
@David: My camera gears? ;)
On 14 April 2008 Simon Le gave props:
Amazing shot. Great composition, contrast & color. Keep the car but sell this shot to Mazda as they would love to have this stunning shot for their ads.
On 14 April 2008 dean zulich said:
I say sell the camera,keep the car..
just kidding;)
On 14 April 2008 Mr. T gave props:
The beautiful capture of your awesome car will make everybody want it so I believe you will have no problems selling it. I bet Mazda would love this capture!!! Before you sell it get a bike and give it a whirl but have your car just in case it rains. Beautiful image....
On 15 April 2008 Laura Boston-Thek gave props:
Amazing Car shot....if you were to sell it, I think it would sell on this shot alone!! BUT I say...if you love it...keep it...bike more, drive less. :)
On 16 April 2008 Jason Platt said:
Drive the car only on sunny Sundays and buy a cheap used beater car thats fuel economic for the rest of the days. Live by that cake and eat it too principle....You can be guilt free all week and have that 1 day to roam in style :)
On 16 April 2008 George Fidias gave props:
excellent!
On 16 April 2008 John Elias said:
Beautiful shot! What a dilema, Yeallow or ”Green“ ?! :-}
On 17 April 2008 Michael Van der Tol gave props:
The shot is spectacular - just think about all the cool photo gear you could by with the proceeds...just kidding :-)
On 18 April 2008 Jose Vásquez said:
superb!
On 3 May 2008 Salvador Figueras Iglesias said:
Hola Joyce, todavía no lo has vendido? Estoy a punto de cobrar una herencia y a lo mejor te lo compro. Excelente fotografía.