So this is the fourth trip we have taken to France but this time started our trip off in Bordeaux.
purrin had found a school that was an intense set of classes about the wine of the region taught before classes began for the summer, and soon since it's my big 30 birthday... so the trip was perfect timing. While I am here and he is in a classroom all day for the first week, I am doing a photographic study of the town and will be getting credit for the work in a class I am taking at UNLV this summer. I did something similar during a class at SHSU where we traveled to Houston (yea far trip from Huntsville), San Antonio and New Orleans. The only problem with those trips were we had one day to shoot photos, and then we headed back home. Looking back on the photos they seemed pretty rushed and could have been done better with more time. This time I will have almost a full week to really explore.
So today I woke up with Christopher, went to breakfast, and after he left I took the rental car on a drive around the main sections of the city.. mostly to see everything, get my bearings, and to circle on my map points of interest for photos. After some quick grocery shopping I came back to the hotel for some lunch and then spent the rest of the afternoon wandering the areas that aren't for cars or I just couldn't get to due to crazy one way streets. I shot about 200 digital photos throughout the day since the teacher told me it would be a good idea to see what looked good in black and white, and what didn't. Also as a sort of warm up to thinking about composition of photographs. I think her idea was a good one and really helped.. so much so I might use that technique in the future. Tomorrow I will take the medium format film camera and about ten rolls of film to shoot in one area I have marked off on my map.
Hope this project comes out good....
here are the test shots from today. Not too crazy about any of them but definitely gave me an idea of what may look good on film.