[olavf]

I notice you are from Sacramento.

There are quite a few abandoned things in the Central Valley of California, some of my pics are from the Central Valley.

I cannot disclose locations, because of professional ethics.

I can understand that. *Most* things in the general Sacto area have been re-purposed, or are slated/in the process of though. I know of a few things around – like the old PG&E substation off I-5 – but I’m not going to have time before next week.

Thankfully I made a trip through the Owens Valley a few months ago, so I’m good.

//but you know, if you ever need an extra camera, I won’t tell

[olavf]

I’m lucky, I have a job where I get paid to document historic and prehistoric things.

I UrbEx’d when I was a kid, before there was even a term for it.

That’s cool..

[olavf]

I have a whole Flickr page dedicated to this.

Do you UrbEx or just happen on things? Options on the latter are fairly limited around here unless you travel.

Also, Welcome!

[olavf]

…wondering why you haven’t broken into the abandoned houses you mentioned?

I guess you could say I haven’t gotten there yet. Also worried about stability issues. Things are rather unstable in one and I guess completely collapsed in the other. Depending on how long my interview is, I’ll likely explore on Tuesday. If I don’t get to it then, hopefully by Thursday afternoon or Friday when someone else is here with the kid(s). I’ll get there.

Long story short, we met a ….dude last Sunday. Dude is a regional manager for Amtrak and has keys to stuff. Like 2/3 of the local Amtrak station that have basically been abandoned since the ’70’s (or earlier). Unfortunately we were drankin’ (he’d literally just rolled back in town from that horrific train wreck in NV last weekend) and I gave him my number but didn’t get his. I’ve seen him around though, and we have mutual friends, so it’ll happen, I just don’t know if in time for this contest.

He was also saying there’s a slim chance he could get me into the old train yards. They’re owned by the city, so it’s slim, but….I can’t even tell you how awesome that would be.

[olavf]

I believe orionid said it didn’t really matter.

[olavf]

I nearly threw my back out for one pic, have stains everywhere from the second, and now I’m off to hit the archives and see if I’ve used teh b-side for a shot I used a couple of years ago that would be a perfect shot for this one.

Good times.

(edit) I have a nearly identical frame. Sweet.

[olavf]

I’m partial to the first pickup, and the second-to-last Dart.

[olavf]

Ireland, Sweden. Potato, potatis.

[olavf]

No worries. If it’s a different frame, it’s legal.

Yeah, it still irks me to do it though 😳

Don’t sweat it. It happens now and then to everyone – use something and realize a while down the road that that would have been the perfect shot for this contest – these are contextual contests, not ‘go out and shoot something for’ contests. Also, once you’ve been doing them for a while, you’ll start realizing that x shot would have been perfect for this one, but… and then realize you have another frame to use. We’ve all done it.

Personally, I try and shoot something new for every contest, but in reality it’s just not possible all the time. Life, and all that stuff gets in the way. particularly when you’re tying to come up with three pictures ever week.

[olavf]

To bad you didn’t get Tommy Lee Jones or Anne Heche in the shot. That would have been awesome.

[olavf]

I’d say yes to both

[olavf]

I feel pretty good about my set-up shot, so long as people get the reference. Otherwise, I’m just going to mix dry and snowy mountains, I guess, just to cover the range (no pun intended)

[olavf]

When we went to Vegas a few months back I took loads of shots through the various mountains. Many of them are better fitted to other contests (not as ‘mountainy’ feeling as I like. so I picked a cross-section of them, and have one that is ‘out of the box’ as it were that I came up with way back when the contest got hoppered. That’s the one I’m throwing my money on – I haven’t done landscapey stuff in a long time, really.

[olavf]

I ended up picking #2 and #3 (and #4) at pseudo-random. I have no idea what’s going to play well.

-on the bright side, I’ve only had one entry the last two contests. That means it’s a good thing, right?

[olavf]

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