Pizzas, Surveys and Junkyards (5)

What do pizzerias and auto junkyards have in common?

Nothing really, but when someone on our local FB site asked about the best pizzeria in town, all 6 pizza joints were named in the responses. To my amusement, it is the same when best Chinese are asked for, except there are only 4 of them.

That brings us to auto junkyards, although The Boneyard is not really a junkyard but a display that is well dispersed so all parts of it can be enjoyed and photographed. I don't think that I would go as far as to call it a museum, but I imagine you get what I am trying to say. Maybe collection fits.

When I recently posted both a colour and monochrome version of one old wreck a few days ago here (but a fine old wreck it was) some preferred colour and others the b&w.

Folks, there is no right answer . . . although I guess we all think that our own is the right one.

It isn't that I asked for opinions, but people have them and give them, and that is a good thing, for I like to read what others think. However, I learned long ago that it pretty much fruitless to ask opinions about certain things if one wants a consensus. I didn't need a consensus in the case of that post, for I like reading your opinions.

It was after my first year of teaching when I gave the kids a survey about the course as we had been prompted do to back in college of ed.

One student would like x best and y least while the next student might have the exact opposite opinion. Opinions were so all over the place that the survey was of no use to me, so I never did that again.

From then on, I figured that I was wise enough to evaluate courses without all sorts of contradictory opinions.

And that is what they are, opinions and not facts, except in the sense that everyone's opinion is factual to them. If I prefer Pizza Plus to Pizza Delight, that is a personal fact. What isn't a fact is that Pizza Plus is actually better – unless, perhaps, a general consensus emerges. Even then, if a minority were to prefer Pizza Delight, who could say that they would be wrong?

Now, although this post wasn't originally heading toward more photos from The Boneyard, I have decided to present two versions of another image, for unlike the students, your opinions are most definitely worthwhile. 😊

Here we have a photo of a 58 Chevy. The second is as the camera saw it (I wish it were first, but I can't be bothered to change the order), but the first photo is desaturated although I decided to leave some colour in the car by only partly desaturating it. I first tried a full b&w conversion (not shown here), but I wasn't feeling it as some are wont to say. However, when I returned just a little colour to the vehicle, I rather liked the effect.

I still don't know which version I prefer, but you might, so speak up with confidence. By the way, the right answer in this case is not neither. 😊

I await your insights with bated breath.