September 19th 2008 - Cause It's Only Money

            Explored! #6

I don't think this needs an explanation.

I'm headed to dinner so maybe I'll leave a witty description later... or maybe I won't... it's friday! ;-)

Edit: Back from dinner and just picked up Clarissa from the mall... so I thought I'd finish my post.

Today was a really slow day at work. They let us go at 3:30, so I finally decided to do the shot I'd been wanting to do for a while.

I saw this old pump a while back while out driving and instantly fell in love with the setting. I jumped out of my car and went to the door... no one inside... it looked abandoned except that... there were drink machines inside that were all lit up. Well.. I didn't want to just start snapping away cause there's a pretty busy highway nearby and I was worried that someone would get suspicous. So I marked it on my GPS and decided to try later.

I've been back twice since then without snapping a single photo.

So today I was determined to find someone who knew what was up. So I parked and went to the house next door to ask if they knew the owner. No one was home. Luckily on my way back to the car someone pulled up and said that they used to own the place and that the new owner would have no problem with me being there and told me to tell them I had permission. They said the guy only opened it up in the mornings and very rarely in the afternoons.

So, this pump was kind of cool. I wish I could buy gas at the prices that were still on the dial... $1.62 per gallon.

Afterwards Tam and I had a nice little dinner at Ryan's and were about to finish "There Will Be Blood".

G' Night!

Strobist info: Bare Canon 430ex at camera left.

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Taken in: United States / Alabama / Cecil (show map)

Taken on: September 19, 2008

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Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi, f/8.0, 1/50 sec, 18mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
Lens:	18.0-200.0 mm
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.02 sec (1/50)
Focal Length:	18mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	Unknown (-1)
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows
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