Day 80: Lights

Ok, well my april fools joke is over, you've all seen it and read my comment. I hope. Anyway, I couldn't let a picture this unique go by without a decent description, so here goes: I told my mom at about 7PM that we should go to WallyWorld and get that new tripod I had been hinting at for the last month... so we did that, and came home. I found the tripod to be exceptionally sturdy and an idea popped into my head to get some use out of it. I had taken a picture from the exact same location the day before, but of course hand held because I didn't have a spiffy tripod yet. But now I did! So at 8:50 I told my mom that I wanted to go stand on the side of a street with a bunch of traffic in my black coat in the dark. after quite a bit of convincing, she let me. I had to be driven out there, and we had walkie-talkies... Once I got out side, and set everything up, I told mom to drive by in both directions a couple of times, and I got a few pictures from that.... but then I saw 3 cars coming from behind me!!! so I set my aperture open a little more, so that it would let in just a bit more light than in my previous pictures (in which the sign was too dark) and this little change caused the red lights to over expose and turn yellow-orange as they went by! which is what makes this picture so unique. yay.

Originally Posted on April 1st:

This will be the last picture I post from my D80, if not the last picture I post for awhile... It's ironic that these things always happen just before April 1st... I dropped my camera. I was out taking this picture last night, and I took it off the tripod, thinking only about trying to get back in the car and get warm... I didn't think about putting the neck strap on at all, and then I just let go, not thinking... I stuffed it back in the camera case, so my mom didn't find out, and i got the card out and showed her the pictures. The camera is screwed though... the lens shattered, and the metal ring that the lens attaches to on the body some how like snapped off, the screws broke from the force of the lens hitting first I guess... I freaked out. Anyway, I'm going to clue my parents in here sometime today. I hope they don't freak out too bad. oh, who am i kidding? the camera that i have had for only 4 months is RUINED. Well, i guess its my Steve's Project 365 80... i should change the URL to sp80.blogspot.com...

well I'm off to tell my parents...