aerodeck (2020) (Patreon)

This shot was taken for a zine that never got published back in the heart of the everyone-scared-shitless phase of the pandemic (so, for me, July 2020). I never got a chance to really drive this car, my '86 Honda Accord Aerodeck, all that much, since I stopped basically driving at all in March of 2020 and didn't start again until I had my vaccine in May of 2021, by which point I'd bought my van. (I sold the Accord earlier this year, as I needed the money.) As a result I never really fully aesthetically explored what kind of photos this car was good for, but I don't think I really needed to, because this shot nails the vibe. 

All my favorite shots of my Aerodeck are like this, nighttime city pictures that are brooding but colorful that practically play synthpop from your computer speakers when you open the picture. It was just the perfect car for a windows-down nighttime cruise with the music blasting, and it looked it. I still kind of miss this car (and I'm bummed this zine never happened) but at least I got the perfect shot of it before it was gone.