Daily Photo

A dead Vespa scooter in a “bike graveyard” in Payson, Arizona. Dead technology is powerfully attractive. Particularly when it was a nice bit of kit in its day.

I grew up in the green suburbs of western Perth; within walking distance was an abandoned factory. If I’d had a good camera and lens when I was sixteen there’d be a pack of snapshots of rusted machinery and broken louvre window closeups in the two boxes of photos in my spare room.

It’s like wandering around town with a Walkman playing Metal Machine Music would have been in the late 1970s. Of course, these days everything sounds like that.

Photo: “Vespa” by Rob Sinclair. Taken with a Nikon D200 with Sigma 30mm F1.4 EX DC HSM lens. Taken 31st July, 2008. CC by-sa 2.0.