Daphne spends a day at the Birmingham Botanical gardens
Category: Journal
I was in downtown Birmingham looking for the Photowalk gang mojodenbow.info/2008/03/31/april-fools-magic-city-photo-w… and saw a huge plume of black smoke up in the mountains (10 miles away) I couldn’t see what was burning but it was big and so I set off to capture it. Upon arrival, the area was swarming with onlookers and emergency workers.
I rushed to the gate with cameras in tow and was stopped by the police, even with my media badge. Reason being it was private property and the apt manager (The Enclave at Mountain Brook apartments) was insisting no press because of the negative images it would portray (faulty safety guidelines)?
A police officer suggested I get creative if I wanted any photos. Th place inside the complex had hoards of kids running to/from the fire on the back side of the complex just to see what was going on and could care less about their safety.
What made this worthwhile was the fact I had beaten the mainstream media by 10 minutes.After getting my shots, they came running down the hill towards the blocked entrance where I stopped them and told them no luck and why.
Eat your heart out again, mainstream media!
**UPDATE**
I wonder how the hell the Birmingham News got these photos?? blog.al.com/spotnews/2008/04/large_fire_reported_at_apart…
Flickr: Discussing April Fools Magic City Photo Walk in Magic City
Yes, it is true, we ARE having another photowalk in the Birmingham area this Tuesday night. We’ll meet at 5:30PM in the Speakeasy downtown Birmingham. After a few drinks to um, enhance our shooting skills, we’ll hit the pavement and capture anything that strikes our fancy.
The Rules:
Who is invited: Anyone who wants to come.
Who is not invited: mean people.
Required equipment: a camera of any type.
Suggested equipment: tripod (for after it gets dark).
Required Photographic Skill Level: Any. The purpose of this event is to just have fun, meet some people, share tips and tricks, and just enjoy photography together.
So that’s it, come on and join us April 1st!
A few shots from the last photowalking event:
Tags: Photowalk, Flickr, Birmingham, Alabama, Magic City Flickr Group
Then I remembered ADrive. This is a web-based storage and back-up application that hosts up to 50GB. Free.
Problem solved and my work laptop thanks me for it. Wow.
I’ve created and authored a lot of web sites/blogs and a friend of mine suggested that with all of theses sites inside of what I call Studio Mojo, I do not have a web presence that I can truly call my own. So, without delay, I am introducing MojoDenbow.info.
Originally, I had a personal website that was basic, free and hosted by WordPress.com. There were page templates, limited storage and not as customizable as I would have liked. Since then, I decided to create various websites on our own server, with their own domain names as opposed to mojodenbow.wordpress.com to mojodenbow.info. Why .info? It rhymes with my name. Duh!
To get the latest updates the Mojo has to offer, please add this site to your RSS reader. The address is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MojoDenbow and if you want the updates delivered to your email inbox instead, be sure to sign up here:
For the other sites in Studio Mojo such as photography, hiking, technology, video blogging and more, the links are provided on the left sidebar of the page.
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I mowed the grass for the first time this season and paid the price for it. There were more than a few weeds and it seems they all found their way into my sinuses. I went to the doctor today and got some good stuff to counteract it.
I’ve never had allergies before. It takes getting used to and it sucks.
The Mojo has been super busy and has lost his blogging mojo for over a week. Various reasons apply such as travel, brother’s wedding, day job kicking my tail and new website development.
All will be better soon. For updates, you can follow me on Twitter:
my very own sunrise service between Tulsa and Dallas
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I had an opportunity to shoot George Thorogood & the Destroyers at the Alabama Theatre Sunday night. These guys can still rock and they know it. I’ll edit more photos and post them here & Flickr as well.
A big thank you to Jenna at Mike Donahue Management and most especially to the lovely Angela at Live Nation for escorting me around the theatre!
