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downtown memphis
2007.02.25
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taken last saturday, in downtown Memphis just after midnight.
you have no idea how cold it was....the wind coming off the Mississippi River and then being channeled by the buildings...it was quite ridiculous. i mean, i can understand some wind, but this was the kind that would cut through all four layers that you're wearing, including an expedition jacket.
absurd. i know. at one point we ended up waiting by the car for one of Kelsey's friends to show up to say hi, so while we were waiting Mer and Kristen climbed in the trunk of her car to get out of the wind.
what's eerie about being downtown in that city at night is that unlike most major metropolitan areas, Memphis is dead at night. when i say dead i mean dead. it was c-r-e-e-p-y, like something out of a zombie flick with the howling, icy wind and the lack of any sort of people at all.
though i don't blame people for not going out if it's so cold and windy all the time in the winter there.
otherwise it was great. Kelsey (in the glasses, mer's boyfriend, she's in the blue hoodie) really knows Memphis inside and out. He took us on a tour of all the off the map places that people usually pass up...and at one point we ended up ducking through a hatch in the "floor" of a bridge that crosses the Mississippi and climbing down a 15 foot, unprotected ladder to a service platform that hung below the bridge.
i loved it, even if we did almost get caught when a tugboat lit up the underside of the bridge to cross through it.
...but whatever, the fact is we had fun.
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no photos of the bridge stunt, that's not something that i was willing to shoot for obvious legal reasons, and besides the light down there was practically EV 0, and using flash would've been suicide.
even when we wern't on the bridge though, i really wasn't feeling the need to use flash that night, it would've killed the eerieness of the lights that were around. so due to that, everything was taken on D70, ISO 1000 with 50mm f/1.8 and raw so i could squeeze out every last bit of data if i needed to.
