User talk:MisterZed

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 23:21, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Why Hyundais?

I can kind of understand where you're coming from, but why photograph cars which were ordinary and common at the time? I mean, I like to photograph rare or expensive cars sometimes myself, but I don't go out taking photos of Hyundais, because they're a dime a dozen....MisterZed (d) 17:51, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Hyundais were very common in Canada in those early years (as in when first they broke out of South Korea), and these days (as in 2013) they're very common in much of Europe. I guess they've been very common in South Korea since somewhere closer to when time began. I'm not entirely sure which of the Hyundai pictures I took that you have in mind, but if they date from the late 1970s, then no, where I lived then, in England, they were not common. If you're on to the 1980s, I took a few pictures of them in Netherlands. I was working in the travel trade where wages felt (and were) low but frequent travel, at least if you weren't wanting to go too far, could be relatively inexpensive if one wasn't too fussy about precisely when. Netherlands had little indigenous auto-industry and those Dutch guys mostly love a bargain (which many folks think means cheap cars), so it was one of the first countries in the EEC/EU to be seriously targeted by Japanese auto-makers and, a few years later, by South Korean auto-makers. At that time I was living in England, so any trips to the Netherlands, in the event that free time was involved, felt a bit like a holiday. And it's when life feels a bit like a holiday that you put a camera round your neck (or, in the present century, in your pocket). And back then, if I saw a new Hyundai - possibly of a shape that had not even been announced to the market back home in England - it caught the eye and, on occasion, the lens. Regards Charles01 (talk) 18:54, 17 June 2013 (UTC)