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The compulsion to get out and do something came over me one June night, sitting on the computer just wasn’t cutting it. Why sit at home and do nothing when I could sit on a roof and do nothing but look around?
I left my house around 12:30am and I made my way to school at 1:30, an hour walk in brief darkness with cars turning their high beams on me up a long and dark winding road. There are little to no street lights around here.
As I stand across the street from the school I look around for any sign of life in this desolate town that seems to die after 9pm. I see lights on in a janitors area with a lone van sitting adjacent to the building. Could be Lester the Molester waiting to hand out candy for next school year. No signs of life. Tighten my belt, tie my shoes, pull my beanie tighter around my head and make the short walk across a well lit parking lot to where I make my accent.
Placed my tripod on its side on the roof and pulled my self up onto the roof and I jog across the roof to my first ladder of the night, briefly jumping miscellaneous pipes and wires strewn about on the roof that serve one purpose or another. I almost slip on the metal ladder due to the mid-morning dew covering everything.
I climb onto the schools highest point and gaze through the darkness at everything around me. I let loose a scream that pierces the silent night like a sharp knife and echoes in the courtyard below me. I fire up a cigarette and sit and rest, half my night has just begun.
Looking down a skylight into the high school:
Heres how the janitors get up onto the roof safely:
This is above the cafeteria. Under this ladder I have stood, it is in the back room adjacent to the kitchen . They had a "secret" soda machine back here ("Not for student use" Yeah money is money and this machine don’t discriminate biatch) in my 11th grade year. They took it out after some of us caught wind of it.
Here I am sitting on a part of the school roof above the band room towards the very front of the school.
And here I am again sitting on the edge of a courtyard. I had a math class in the 11th grade that overlooked this yard.
Both of these are 15 second exposures with 400 ISO overlooking the back field.
A ladder:
Some vent work:
An antenna:
High school Student/Teacher parking lot:
The endless halls of education:
The lit parking lot I had to walk across and the lonely van:
Some air conditioning building unit on the roof with an odd green tint from a light:
You can see the fist ladder I climbed up here.
This is the courtyard to some student that died in a car crash. The school is notorious for students to die in car accidents.
I have plans to go back one day, just for fun. It is kind of hard to compose photographs in near-darkness so I didn’t shoot much, that and I didn’t see many photographic opportunities. That and its a roof, you’re not going to see many interesting things.
I left the school at 3am and begun my walk home.
Before I began my walk home I stopped for another photo of myself standing in a field.
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Here are some miscellaneous shots of the school and inside the school.
.......And thats it.
Thanks for looking/reading. I dont care what you rate this.
Jul 04, 2007 7:54 pm - Damn Clegg, I have yet to see a school in my area that looks remotely close to being as nice as yours. And, yeah it has already been stated, but, you take pretty decent pictures.
5*
Ju 04, 2007 8:48 pm - Lol, I remember asking you about this. But you never answered me..D; ZERO!!
Jus kidding..
And lol I always thought clegg was the blonde kid in his pictures.
5 anyways.
Aug 02, 2007 8:17 pm - i agree, he looks like a ghost, you an see right through him. You must have a really nice camera, very good quality pictures. 5*s
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