Flickr Meetup!
Sunday, April 27th, 2008Today we had my favorite flickr meetup to date. Today was World Wide Pinhole Day, so the Gainesville flickr group (David, Greg, Mike, Jennifer, and me) met up at Starbucks in the wee hours of the morning and headed off down 301 to see what photographic adventures would come our way.
Our first stop was The Orange Shop in Citra, a shop that has sold orange-related products from oranges grown, picked, and hand-packedfrom the orange groves literally surrounding the shop since 1936. The sign was classic:
and I got the classic “orange” shot!
From Citra, we headed north, going way off our map (printed from googlemaps, of course - who needs an atlas?) and eventually winding up in Waldo. A new cafe/gallery just opened there on April 19th, so we stopped to check it out. It’s a beautiful space with great lighting and delicious-looking desserts (I’m a dessert girl, but not before lunch).
Next it was farther north to the speed trap known as Starke. We dined on some fabulous food from Grannie’s Country Cookin’ before heading out to an abandoned motel that Greg had spotted a few months before: the Underwood motel.
The interior was everything you’d expect from a creepy, dilapidated, abandoned motel. Weeds grew everywhere, and the entire ground seemed to be covered with broken glass. Whole walls were gutted, and every mirror left was broken. In other words, photograph heaven, making my self-portrait of the day a rather easy task.
All in all, an awesome day.