Originally posted at Project Pedal...

90% of the following pictures don't look anything like they are suppose to... I tried scanning them with several different settings, but in the end, they all became overly desaturated and bright with not enough contrast. I tried to hide this the best I could with photoshop, but now they just don't look natural - I guess I should have added the 'kodak picture CD' package when I did one hour developing at 'Target'. Either way.

These don't have much, if anything, to do with 'project pedal', but I thought the website could use some 'show & tell':



I placed this one at the top because it's the worst, now there is no where to go but up... the area in the lower left half of the picture that is completely blacked-out here, isn't that way at all in the print. Anyways, enough about the scanner... this picture was a balancing act to take, the 'run-off' was only five-or-so inches wide, so I was balancing on one knee while leaning over with my head tilted almost upside down just so I could get the camera far enough down while still seeing through the viewfinder. I wish someone had snapped a picture of me while I was taking this one...


I just had to stop and take a picture of this RV'ish... thing. Actually, there were about 15 more RVs and trailers lined along this road with-in a half-a-mile stretch - if only I had a wide enough lens to fit them all into frame.


This picture was taken while Amanda and I were on our two-day coastal ride... we went snooping around two side-by-side houses in Malibu that were abandoned - the foundations had slipped, and I'm sure they were anything but safe to walk around in. This doorknob caught my eye though, I'm really not sure what happened to it - at first glance, it might look like fire damage, but there was no signs of fire anywhere else in the house... I'm guessing it's some kind of acid...


This was around 4 in the morning, on my way from helping out with the short film I mentioned several post ago. It's a complete accident - but the shutter took so long to snap it gave me this dream-like wave coming off anything that reflected light.


At the top of these stairs, about two minutes before I took this photo - this same homeless man had stumbled up behind me and shouted something I couldn't make out to maybe me... but maybe no one, I was hard to say. Anyways, because of it I decided to take this picture while he wasn't looking... that'll teach him.


This is the same house that the photo of the doorknob was taken in - about half a second after I took this picture two pigeons freaked [because of the shutter's "snap"] and came out of hiding from the rafters - they made a break for the ocean but both crashed head first into the glass doors... then they staggered back in mid-air and made a break again through the next section of door, smacking their heads again [but only one pigeon did it this time, the other was smart enough to watch] - finally on their third try, they flew over my head and left through the giant gapping hole in the wall. I tried very hard to get a picture but it all happened so fast...


It might be hard to tell in this picture because I've scaled it down so much, but the three cars ahead of me all have a 'Michael Jordan' logo on their back windows. The red'ish car on the far right was the first I spotted, we drove next to each-other for about a minute, then he moved up a few cars... then the truck that is farthest ahead in this picture passed me on my left - thirty-some seconds later I saw the car on the left merge from two lanes over... they just all came together at once and drove right in front of me. Coincidence? Perhaps...


Not much to say about this one... it's a shopping cart with no back wheels sitting in the middle of some unused train tracks.


The picture above and the picture below were taken behind a gas station just off Hwy 5 - these pic's might be too small now to really make out what all the screens say so I thought I'd list them for your reading pleasure [in no particular order]:

"1+1=3", "get it together", "everyman for himself", "need? or greed?", "face the disgrace", "point of view", "make it happen", "smile", "never too late", "[heart]", "that little voice", "taste the waste", "social-in-security", "spread demockery to all", "make art", "quantity not quality", "I.D. thief", "gotta hustle", "free-dumb", "shame on us", "health is wealth", "it's not all good", "process aint' pretty", "thoughts have power", "got war?", "never enough", more more more"...


[cont'd...] "gotta hustle", "time of fear", "what if?...", "respect for all", "angels are for real", "pray for peace", "urban voice", stop cellphone abuse", "capitol culture", "positive response", "this too will pass"...

Whew. Okay, I only took two pictures of the hill, but there were actually enough tv's and computer screen to fill up four photos. I'd be interested to meet the person who does this... it's not something you see everyday. That's all for now.