Day 40: Porsche Driver View

2026-03-18

Hello!

You lot really liked yesterday's web game, so I contacted the developer. In addition to planning future updates to 100 Jumps, they've made another web game: Snapmatch, which is not nearly as frustrating for me :-). Usually, this would go at the end of the article. But enjoy this treat first. Now for the photo blog stuff.

Do I need to say that I don't own this Porsche car? This site runs on donations and I struggle to keep it afloat even at twenty(-ish) dollars per month, so a $200,000 USD car like this is definitely out of my reach.

So no, this car isn't mine. I found it at a shopping mall, where Porsche had their store. This is a locked demo unit, closed off from the public. But the windows were rolled down and the store owner didn't seem to mind me getting close with a camera!

In an alternate timeline, I would have been a train nerd. I would never get to the crazy levels of rail jargon, but with how often I use the regional train or inter-city metro (and prefer it over a car!), I feel like I'm just a push away from obsessing over trains. Still, cars are cool looking, and US trains aren't. I remember looking up examples of automobile photography — specifically car detail photography — and shouting into the void, "Why am I not there yet!?" as I continued to take photos that were lesser than the perfect images on the Internet.

With a Porsche, and especially a clean demo unit in a mall, car detail photography is just on easy mode. It's not even fair; this looks so cool.

That's all I've got today. The behind-the-scenes workflow of blogging is driving me mad. A picture is worth a thousand words, but I never find myself willing to write that much any day of the week. Instead, I've found some other stuff you might enjoy, both online and offline.

If you're looking for community-based photography inspiration, the Light Stalking roundup has a bunch of ink-black images that might be interesting. My photos aren't usually that constrasty and dark, but experimentation is always a good thing to explore creative limits.

Finally, a book recommendation. Last month, I finished reading Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie. Today, I've finished reading Marta L. Tellado's Buyer Aware by borrowing it from my local library and reading it whenever I was in the car for a while.

It's a real eye-opener on consumer rights and the latest dangers of the digital marketplace. I worry that these kinds of books preach to the choir a little bit, and I'm unsure who their targeted audience is. But to those wanting to see change, the book offers useful steps of action that you can take as an individual to work towards that fairer future.

Cheers,
David