Monday 4/11/16 week 2

Today was our first day shooting in Atlanta for the project. At around 10:30 I drove over to James’s house to pick him up so we could start our day. It wasn’t until I got there when I realized that I had forgotten my tripod, so back I went to my house. The day was off to a positive start. Our first stop was at my grandparent’s apartment, which is on the thirty-sixth floor and has a fantastic view of Buckhead. My grandmother let us in and we set up our tripods on their balcony. We both used almost all of our lenses to capture a variety of images with different effects. After taking our pictures we ate lunch with my grandmother and packed up our gear. James and I then drove downtown to Piedmont Park where we would be able to get good photos with trees in the foreground and skyline in the background. While walking around the park we came upon geese with about eight goslings. The goslings were so unbelievably cute that we stopped for probably half an hour to take photos. We got amazing photos because it would be impossible not to, given our subjects. We then moved on to the pond where there was an impressive array of animals such as turtles, ducks, geese, and that weird kind of white ugly duck that nobody likes. We took some photos of the animals but they didn’t come out very well. Our attention was caught by the downtown skyline looming over the park so we moved to the other side of the pond to get pictures of it. Our pictures came out just as we had planned but by the time we finished it was time to head downtown. James’s dad works at a company that owns many downtown skyscrapers so he arranged for us to go up on the roof of one. The one we got access to was the tall one beside i75 with the green and gold top. Once on the roof we towered above all of Atlanta. I have never seen anything like that view and I was in awe. We spent almost an hour on the roof taking pictures from every possible angle. After our hour was up we headed back down the fifty floors to the lobby. Our next stop was Little Five Points, which was decidedly less exciting than the roof of a skyscraper. I don’t think James or myself got any good pictures there. After the disappointment of Little Five points we called it a day and got dinner at Ponce City Market. We actually would have gotten pictures there too but it was raining.