Back in 1996, I took an awesome photography class with Ms. Carmilla Howard at St. Vincent’s Academy. Ms. Howard was big on trying to make us see things differently, do different techniques with our photographs. We were encouraged to enter our pieces in various shows, and I was thrilled to have two pieces end up displayed that year.
One of the pieces was one of my all-time favorite shots, which I took from under the Thunderbolt bridge. Yes, I said “under.” I had a friend who lived in the apartments next to it, and we would walk down at low tide and hang out, watch the river, and just talk about life. So it was the perfect setting for me to do some photography. My shot (I hope I can find it again one of these days) was a side-by-side positive and negative black and white image. I loved it, particularly for all the lines it drew out in the photo.
So, having a little free time after work before my digital photography class yesterday, I decided to go back and see if I could recreate the shot. My memory proved to be a little fuzzy as to where exactly the path was that we took, but after driving around for about 15 minutes I found it. But almost 16 years later, it was overgrown. I could have braved it, and provided some future YouTube entertainment for someone, but I just was not quite dressed appropriately. So I got these shots instead.
(The train shots were taken at the Savannah Visitors’ Center as I killed time before class.)
