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The road is a tired and lonely place, filled with surprise in every turn.

The summer has arrived.

...and that means it's time to go back to school! I'm taking a color film photography course this summer, and I'm quite excited to go back to school, make up credits that I missed while in my 6 months off, and see if I can working on graduating on time. Anywho, I spent most of the day with a friend of mine from school, and we checked out Black Lake, which has a swimming spot. She (Althea) was looking for good images for a photo journalism course she's taking, and I went along for company, and perhaps my own photographs. I didn't find any, and she found little.

Later on, we met up with my friend Alex to complete the first assignment for my color photo class: to shoot 1-2 rolls of film and have them processed by monday's 9am class. Well, I found the second half of the roll much easier to shoot in a bar at 5pm, with plenty of daylight inside the place. After I completed my roll, Althea and I headed back to my place to gather some digital equipment, and I ended up shooting a roll of 35mm color film in the backyard of my humble abode. I started off shooting digital, and realized that the light back there (7pm) was perfect, so I quickly shot a 35mm roll for the color class to process tomorrow. After that we checked out this property that had been raided by the local cops, and we thought it was abandoned, after taking some images with an old truck as a prop, we realized there we people living in there, we headed out. The following images were taken in my backyard and the property we explored:

Fort Popham

So I have been going over images, and recently stumbed upon this awesome plug in for photoshop called Alien Skin Exposure 2. It's basically a plug in that contains filters for different film types, so you can put it over a digital image and have it resemble a certain image shot using a film. It's pretty cool, although its price isn't. So here's an image i applied the filter of Fuji Velvia 100F to.

This is a part of Fort Popham in Phippsburg, Maine.

SLC

I made it to salt lake city in about7.5 hours with 2 stops for gas in Wyoming. Oh wyoming. If you've ever driven on I80 through there you'd feel my pain. There's nothing, for miles. Luckily, I didn't almost run out of gas like the previous times I'd gone though. So I'm headed to Boise today after staying the night with my brother in law Raffi and his girlfriend Ischa. (thanks bridg for spelling)

ON THE ROAD AGAIN!

Hey folks! My faithful car, Stella, and I are back on the road again. We head from Colorado at 11am tomorrow (Tuesday, 5/27/08) morning headed to Salt Lake City, Utah to stay with family for the night and a short visit on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, the next stop is Boise, ID, about 4 hours later. I'm going to see if I can push further, but so far, research hasn't shown much existence between Boise, ID and Portland, OR.

Thursday: I head from Boise, ID to Portland, OR to visit friends for dinner, and then its up to Washington for the final haul.

That's the plan so far. If you need/would like to contact me, cell would be best. Thanks for reading, and within the next month, a full complete log of my trip through California and the South west will be available. I'm still working on details. In addition I'll be compiling images for a book as well which will be available for purchase.

Travels down Rt 9

I took a drive down Rt. 9 in Vermont yesterday towards Bennington, VT where I stumbled upon these three buildings encased in decay.

trip update.

So I'm in Vermont for a bit. I cheated and took a plane from Colorado to Maine where I met my folks, and went to Vermont from there. I think I'm going to possibly start this blog over and fully post my trip day by day with photos. It's a big process an d I'm still going over the images. Anywho, here's an image I took the other day.