The Downtown Lights.

December 2009.

It was just a typical Wednesday, actually.  I had driven up to Tampa to spend the evening with my daughter and was driving home on the Crosstown Expressway - where I found myself paying more attention to the low cloud cover hovering over Downtown Tampa.....

So I took the next exit, turned around and looked for the first free parking deck I could find.

Once I was up there, my attention was split between the lights in the clouds, the nighttime traffic and the utter bleakness of the parking structure.  I used the Holgas (plural, as one is loaded with color and one black and white) for a couple of photos of the structure.  (They are the square photos, btw.)

The Holga exposures were done by holding the cameras on a low wall and manually holding the shutter open for about 10 seconds (I think) - the rest of the images were on my Canon G7 which was also stabilized by low walls and exposures in the 1 second range.  Yes.  I should keep a tripod in the truck.  With the exception of the conversion of one G7 photo to black & white (I like the coldness of it in B&W better), none of the images have been modified in any way.

Sometimes it's a good idea to stop and smell the roses.  Or to quote the famous philosopher Ferris Bueller - "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it..." 

E.

(And yes....  I shameless ripped of the title of this post from a great song from a great band that you've never heard of....)

Holga, B&W - C41 Process

Holga - Color