The Tracks

On my way home from class today I decided to take a trip by an old warehouse that a friend told me about. I managed to get a few good shots inside the warehouse along with one of my favorites of the day, The Tracks! Just down the road there was a loading station for some sort of material into the train carts - looked pretty old school. Lots of junk laying around inside the warehouse, I wanted to move some big buckets of paint out of the way but decided not to. The warehouse was covered in kudzu - even about a 50' vine running through the middle of the building, that stuff is out of control!

I'll for sure go back and use some lighting on the inside, could be some really nice shots. Pics of the warehouse, both inside and out, will be up on my flickr page soon too.

Pink Slip

Jess has been out of town for wok since Sunday so I've been busy doing homework and of course watching T.V. Well Nat Geo just happened to be showing a 2 night mini series called Drugs, INC. Crazy show! I learned a lot about how drugs manipulate the body and even worse how people manipulate others. The things people will do for a quick high are pretty insane. I think I watched episodes on Meth, Coke, Heroine and Weed - I came the the conclusion that if I want to be rich I need to get into dealing drugs. Errr wait no that's not what I learned. People are crazy!

I think out of all of the drugs Meth is the most insane! I don't understand why anyone would look at the ingrediants of Meth and go 'YESSS lets shoot it into our arm!'

This picture is entitled Pink Slip - some of the people on the show got into drugs because of something that changed their lives in a big way, others however just wanted to get high with friends and are now trapped. Look for the little random things in the picture. I think the feel of it turned out well. Don't do drugs people!!

Ok now off to read The Kite Runner by Monday - 400 pages here I come! (Or iTunes audio books...)

Strobe life

After the normal Saturday night Taco Mac dinner with friends I decided to go out and shoot - not the guns! Before dinner I did a quick drive around and found a few places. One really struck me as a winner. Industrial equipment is always cool but no daylight time so night shots would have to do. I think the location would be better during the day because the equipment outside this warehouse was pretty neat. It looked like some sort of truck junk yard / parts place. Lots of bumpers and stuff stacked up everywhere.

Not to bad for one of my first lighting setups.

Maybe next week I'll drive back there during the sunlight hours and do some more of that location. I found a cool brick wall with ivy growing on it that looks promising also.

Fun times!

-Matt

Atlanta

Well it has been a good while since I posted but it's time to get back into the swing of things! I took this picture a week ago while on the top of a building in downtown Atlanta. Was taking some pictures for a friends website who just happened to have rooftop access, NICE!! In the next few weeks I need to have a night model shoot up there.

Things have been pretty crazy around here recently. Three weeks left of summer classes, sweet! But then only two weeks off before next semester starts, boooo!

New pics coming soon! Maybe even tomorrow, if I have time due to a big calculus test on Thursday - ugh! If not tomorrow then Thursday after the test for sure!