Okay ... so here it goes......
The Road to No-Where....
Monday, May 25th/09, Ryan and I head out to the bridge... You see we have this awesome idea for a group shot of the so called "Rat Pack"(Ryan Lavigne, Beaver Smith, Armand Landry, David Gallant, and Myself-Ivon Gaudet...) a nickname given to our little gang of photographer friends by the Fundy Camera Club(of which I happen to be the President... of the club... not the Rat Pack...).
This is an old torn down bridge that drops off right at the water ... about 50' up... it's a very cool old concrete bridge covered in these awesome bright orange fungi... ahhhh they're little mushrooms .. lol. Across from the bridge ... in the middle of the water, is an old support left behind from when they tore the bridge down. The idea is to shoot the Rat Pack standing on the edge of the bridge from the support... Very Cool... no?
We arrive at the bridge at about 11:00am (actually about 3 hours later than we had originally planned, but,.... "That's The Way We Roll!" as Ryan would say) and start scouting out the area... we soon realize that the original idea of having someone climb onto the support will not be an easy one... well... at least without some rope... and more importantly... a BOAT!... too much water... DAMN!... well, on to a new idea...
We soon discover some new views and decide shooting up from the ground in front of the bridge may work, but for now, we needed to check out the rest of the area to see what other ideas we could come up with....
To the TOP! .. we walk around to the top of the bridge and follow it out to the very edge. Quite a nice view... nice height from the water(almost enough to make my fear of heights kick in). We look around a bit ... take some test shots and then have the new idea... we'll stand on the edge of the bridge with our backs to the edge and shoot so you can see the support from behind us, as well as all the water and open space.
This would have been the perfect day for the group shot... the weather was awesome... sun was out but there were lots of clouds rolling in.(Shutter Creative Clouds as Ryan would say... I just call em storm clouds ... DOH!)... Anyways.. we take a few shots... and really like what we get... I shot one of Ryan where he looks like he is levitating on the edge...(he actually jumped in place and almost fell off.. LOL).. you can see this image here on his Flickr page..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shuttercreative/3570109945/
We also took a few of myself (just look slightly up and to the left..... I didn't jump and just took my usual pose hehehe)..
After we figured out the general idea of what we would be doing for our Rat Pack shoot we decided to go Under The Bridge....(what an awesome Red Hot Chili Peppers song), where we found some more interesting picture ideas... the best one... this old seat from a truck... or ... maybe a mini van, but anyways... it was old ... it was dirty... it was stinky... and it was covered in Bur-Docks... so.. we did what any dedicated photographers would do... we opened it up... flipped it to an upright position and proceeded to sit on it and pose for some portraits... Well... what would you have done?
After we shot enough of that.. off to Comeau's for lunch ... what a way to end our little excursion.... All in all it was a good day... good drive... good music ... good photos... and even more important ... good food.
