Under a bridge and some

A spot in Colton California Ive been going to for some time now,I first found it many years ago while riding down the bike trail with my camera.There were quite a few abandoned places in the way of small pump houses,tho time has taken its toll and many have fallen and all thats left is one pumphouse and a small shack not below.The rest is in the river under the bridge,lots of graf and things to shoot.Ive used it for some time now for photoshoots thinking maybe a group shoot there soon.

Life Beckons

Sometimes the need to shoot takes over,and you find yourself to busy to get out or go on an adventure.Id love to shoot abandoned places everyday or see some recycled art goodness and roadside attraction.So was a bit busy with everything coming home one day from work and seen the leaves on the ground and the color and crispiness grabbed my d3200 attached the 50mm and took a few shots I photographed the leaves for abit and uploaded to my pc and added some vsco presets took them into Silver efex back to lightroom and sent a few to alien skin and was pleased with the result of layering the leafs trying to shoot these 3-4 leafs in a different ways.It really makes you think about your shots when trying to create something almost artistic in a sense.Almost abstract tho seeing the color version the black and white turns these shots into something totally different as youll see in the next post of the color versions. 

Watts tower

I finally made to watts tower been on my bucket list for sometime tho I went on spur of the moment to find they were closed open only fri-sun different times.Tho there was plenty to photograph and still a wonderful site to behold.

Urbexing california

Urbexing (ue,urban exploration)in So.Cal

 Yes there are still places in California like this hidden and most look like the average home,so when walking in an abandoned place you never know what youll find and thats the hole point of exploration.Seeking out the unknown documenting your findings.These two shot are from tw very different locations both in Socal more on these locations in a future post,as im still getting this blog off the ground.

Mountain flowers

In my journey into photography ive seen on many artist pages the use of textures and overlays and have been intrigued. Ive only recently started to incorporate these extras into my photography.Using "Alien skin exposure software"ive found it very easy to use  textures overlays and dust particles.Note not every image is a candidate for these techniques but its fun to see which will work,on this image I started off with my normal adjustments in lightroom using the adjustment brush to decrease shadows and increase highlights.

   Once I was finished with my normal editing I imported the image to alien skin exposure and sharpened the image then added light leaks and then my scratches to give it the look you see before you. 

Crow

Crow

shot raw edited with Alien Skin software using paper texture and a two tone overlay with added vignetting