Posts Tagged ‘georgia’

On the Road

Friday, April 30th, 2010

I’m not get­ting any younger but I’m sure far from feel­ing old. To cel­e­brate my birth­day this past week­end I went out and did two of my favorite things — rid­ing and shoot­ing. The orig­i­nal plan didn’t work out, then the next plan got rained on… but some­where in between it was dry — includ­ing a birth­day Sun­day of beau­ti­ful weather. It’s the ride that counts and not nec­es­sar­ily the des­ti­na­tion but on this glo­ri­ous day a small group of us went to Mt. Cheaha.

I strapped on my GF1 and took it for a test ride. You know, that lit­tle cam­era I talked about a few posts ago. I got a sim­ple har­ness I can wear out­side my rid­ing jacket so I can have easy access to the cam­era. It still requires I stop to take a photo of course but I don’t have to fid­dle with tak­ing my gloves off and fetch­ing it from the tank bag… who’s zip­per keeps get­ting stuck. Grrrr.

I had a blast shoot­ing with it. I haven’t per­fected the whole har­ness, bike, shoot thing yet but I’ll get my “work­flow” estab­lished the more I do it :)

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Beautiful Day

Friday, March 12th, 2010

The sun rose through the fog.

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I Feel Summer

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

In the midst of win­ter, I finally learned that there was in me an invin­ci­ble sum­mer.
~Albert Camus

Hap­pi­ness can’t be denied to this warm blooded puerto rican. Sum­mer is coming.

Images avail­able with a RF license: On the Snowy Road, Snow on a Coun­try Road, Bold Trees Weath­er­ing the Win­ter, Sun Ris­ing on the Geor­gia Winter

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Old Car City

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Here’s a cool lit­tle place in Geor­gia that I hadn’t heard of until recently — Old Car City. A cou­ple of months ago I joined a group of pho­tog­ra­phers that was vis­it­ing the site. Yes I know… it took me this long to blog about it but hey, I got a lit­tle busy ;) This is not the sort of thing I usu­ally shoot so I was excited about the challenge.

part of the group

When I got there I imme­di­ately noticed the abun­dance of mos­qui­toes. Thank good­ness some­one else had the sense to bring insect repel­lent. So need­less to say, they imme­di­ately became my best friend. haha. It quickly was made known that we were to watch out for snakes and ground-level bee nests — another detail I wasn’t aware of but I guess given the con­di­tion of the cars, it’s to be expected. I did men­tion this isn’t my reg­u­lar sort of photo shoot didn’t I? The best way to avoid snakes, other than just not shoot­ing there, was to not dis­turb the cars. Mean­ing, that if a car hood was closed you don’t want to open it and shake what’s in it ;)

old car city

We spend sev­eral hours there just soak­ing in the gobs of tex­tures avail­able. They had some really cool mus­cle cars in their orig­i­nal shells includ­ing the Mus­tang my dad once owned. Here are just a few shots from the day.

mustang

stuck

aged

junkyard traffic

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