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"AI" SCRAPING NOTE
(I hate having to add this) All content on "Old Parked Cars Vancouver" is copyrighted. No permission is given or implied for use of this content in the training of any "Generative Pre-trained Transformer", "Large Language Model" or any other information system intended to create "artificial intelligence" or any other boondoggle/snake oil/scam.
AI scrapers GO AWAY. Waste your time on some other web site.
The author's ownership has been asserted.
As well, please be assured that all the words and pictures on this website are the creation of human beings to the greatest extent possible given the nature of digital photography and the software mentioned below. Now on to more pleasant topics.
Old Parked Cars Vancouver is a photo blog about old cars seen on the streets of Vancouver, Canada, updated on a frequent basis. I guess it has turned out to be a way of seeing cars in a different way. It was originally inspired by the blog "Old Parked Cars", by Ben & Tony Piff. My thanks to those fine gentlemen for their example and dedication.
Another particular inspiration was the post "Luxury No More" on the blog "Seattle's Classics". When I first saw those pictures I was blown away. I do put my own twist on things, leaving interpretation up to the viewer.
I seem to have drawn the completely arbitrary line that cars from 1994 and before are "old", and cars 1995 and newer are "honourary". YMMV.
The odds are that you will have a opinion of the cars and pictures you see here which is different from my own. I welcome hearing from you in the comments section.
About tags: You will have noticed all those tags at the bottom of the posts. Want to see all the posts of cars with four round headlights? Click on quad round headlights. Just Toyotas? Only from the 1960s? Etcetera.
Contact me at sealedb3am@gmail.com.
Software used to organize and manipulate these pictures, and to create this blog:
Ubuntu Linux
A fine free operating system and alternative to Windows.
darktable
Importing, cropping, straightening and tweaking (Linux, Windows and macOS)
Gimp
Image editor with numerous helpful features (Linux, Windows and macOS)
Shotwell
Organising and tagging (Linux only)
Phototini
More exif and xmp manipulation (Linux and Windows). This replaces ExifTool and pyExifToolGUI which, for whatever reason, have stopped working for me. Your mileage may vary. If you use Windows, you can also try ExifToolGUI.
DigiKam
Now (April 2020) Phototini has stopped working for me. I have replaced it with DigiKam, just for the advanced tagging facilities (Linux, Windows and macOS)
JSSOR
An open source Javascript and CSS toolkit used to produce the slideshow you see in your web browser.
2022 UPDATE: JSSOR seems to have been absorbed into something called "wysiwygwebbuilder". The original website has been taken over by something to do with gambling. The libraries have disappeared from Github too, but can be downloaded with the documentation from places like SourceForge. and are still available to include on your web page at places like Cloudflare, thank goodness. I use the last version I could find, which is 28.0.
Prayag Verma
With an extra thank you for the assistace of Prayag Verma without whom the current format would have been impossible. The discussion and adapted code seems to have disappeared from the internet, so if you want to understand it, just study the source of one of my posts.
Code::Blocks
I used the Code::Blocks IDE to develop a bit of custom software in C++. That bit of software takes the HTML and javascript produced by Blogger and generates the JSSOR javascript to power the slide show you see in each post. Some day I may post the code, but it's really crude, and probably of little interest to anyone but me.
If I really want to be geeky I guess I should thank the developers of Blogger who added bits of information in their automatically generated HTML which the program takes advantage of, specifically the "data-original-height" and "data-original-width" tags.
May 2023: I've managed to adapt this program to work on Windows using Visual Studio Community Edition. It's really overkill for my purposes but it works. I still use the Linux version as well.
ungoogled chromium
For the past while I've used the ungoogled chromium web browser instead of Chrome when I'm setting up posts on Blogger. It is open source and less tied to the GiGantic G. It may be somewhat challenging for non-technical users to set up and keep updated. (Linux, Windows and macOS)
(n.b. The above logo is not official, just something I came up with)
Firefox
Otherwise I still use Firefox, a fine open source web browser which I recommend for everyone. (Linux, Windows and macOS)