Yellow Corvette. Boat ramp. Flat grey lake sky.
Coupes by the Lakeside is the deepest the catalogue goes on one car - twenty-seven frames built around the yellow C7 Corvette parked down at the Hurricane Creek Boat Ramp on J. Percy Priest Lake in La Vergne, the same city as The Record Shop, roof panel pulled off, houseboats and covered docks stretched across the channel under flat grey winter cloud. (view the post) Alpha The Wolf works it in a long black coat over a patterned tan top, round sunglasses and cream chain-trimmed boots.
The first run is all car. He sits on the front fender with his hands folded, perches on the wing looking off across the water, points dead down the lens from the nose of it, leans out through the open door with a hand at his chin. The C7 gets photographed from every angle it has - side-on with the cabin open to the sky, a detail of the tan leather interior with a line of geese swimming past on the lake behind.
The yellow C7 is the catalogue's most persistent object. It idles in a strip-mall lot at golden hour, sits under raised doors in an unfinished parking deck, holds down a mountain-view rooftop and a Germantown parking lot, and eventually headlines its own single, "C7," shot at night with the hood and hatch thrown open. This is the longest single look at it - and the only one that takes it down to the water.
Then he steps away from it. A quieter run of portraits works the rock shelf and a bleached driftwood log along the shoreline - coat open, the patterned scarf hanging loose, elbows on his knees, the lake behind him a flat wash of grey. Shallow water laps over the stone in the foreground of a few.
The ramp is Hurricane Creek Boat Ramp, tucked off Stones River Rd on J. Percy Priest Lake in La Vergne - no signage in frame, just the concrete, the rubble bank and the moored houseboats across the channel. The catalogue returns to a cold lake and a dock after dark in January 2025 for Yacht Watch; this is the daylight, grey-sky version.
What "Coupes by the Lakeside" means
A coupe by a lake is a postcard - the expensive car, the open water, the horizon. The shoot builds the postcard and then sits in it for an hour on a concrete work ramp under a sky with no colour in it, geese in the shot, a driftwood log for a bench. The luxury object and the plain grey afternoon share one frame and neither wins. In the wolf's telling the pack moves and the wolf keeps its own counsel; here that is one man, one car, and a lake he never gets in.
It closes with a smile - up on the roof of the C7, one boot on the door sill, the marina flat behind him.
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