The Road That Lies Before Me

How many times in your life can you say that you know which road you must take? Its one of the most difficult realizations you must come to in your life. And you must also take the journey, or be stuck in purgatory.

Which road I must take I discovered this past winter. Around January or February, or so. It was where I was originally headed towards when I took my portfolio class around the same time. My road is currently leading me towards the old Spanish trail El Camino Real.

I'm not too sure why, I've been pulled towards this special road, but it is indeed a very interesting travel route. One could wish to have been able to traverse it when dirt was the main substance used when the road was created several hundred years ago. One reason might be the constant visuals of the lovely iron bells perched on top of the fifteen foot herding rods that are located in my hometown, Anaheim and its next door neighbor, Fullerton. Another would be the incredibly scenic tour through the majority of California's coastline. Either excuse it may be, in less than one week, that road will be my biggest challenge I have gone through to date.

It's Scoutin Time

So I've had an idea on a photo project for quite awhile now. Maybe around six months or so, and I stupidly haven't acted on it. Well, tomorrow is going to be my first day working on it. I'm going to be doing a series on the LA Metro service, in particular the incredible designs of some of their stops. For example the Hollywood Blvd and Vine Ave stop on the Metro Red Line below:

The walls and the ceiling are covered in empty 35mm film reels. and the posts are set up to look like palm trees.

There are several other locations that are just as interesting looking as this stop and I'm sure there are others that are more interesting to look at.

Well, tomorrows mission is to ride the metro system to mark off all the stops that I would have interest in shooting. Maybe I might even jump off and shoot a couple of them too. I'm not sure if I'm going black and white or color, but I will be using film and I'm going to be using my Lubitel 2, but the film and the camera will be uniform throughout the entire project.

I just realized too, that I just bought a new phone last week that will allow me to use the light meter app so I don't need to carry around my SLR. Its going to be sitting in my cool bag that I got a couple of weeks ago: