Yesterday, April 24th 2009, I was walking on the Schuylkill River Trail with my cousin and friend. We were thinking about walking to the Penn Relays which were going on that day but decided to just stop by the river and relax. Little did we know, it was also Hey Day for University of Pennsylvania Students.
“Hey Day” is a tradition for students to mark the advancement of each class.
These particular students were celebrating their Hey Day, or moving up to the next class year, by jumping off of the Walnut St. bridge into the murky, dirty, infested (with what no one knows) Schuylkill River.
Photos / Video: Vincent J. Brown (www.VincentBrown.com) Date: Friday, April 24, 2009 Location: Schuylkill River Trail @ Walnut St. Bridge, Philadelphia PA Camera: Canon EOS XSi / 450D w/ Tamron 28-75mm. F2.8 lens / Video: Jailbroken iPhone 3G w/ iPhone Video Recorder
Saturday, Feb. 07 2009 I attended the Pennsylvania Convention Center for this years Philadelphia International Auto Show. On display were 2009 car models from all of the top makers. Personally, I own a Scion (which is a Toyota brand), but I’m always excited by what the automotive industry, as a whole, has to offer.
My friend James Bardolph suggested instead of photographing the cars I should photograph the people at the event and their reactions. That is what I tried to do with this set. Clicking the image above will take you to the photo set on Flickr. Alternately, you can view the photos on my new photoblog, www.Philadelph.com
Hey loyal visitors and those passing through. I want to apologize for not being faithful to this blog by updating it regularly. At least, I don’t think I update this enough. I don’t have much new to report, other than I’ve sold a few photos since my last post and I’ve met a LOT of great, localphotographers in Philadelphia, PA.
The last part of the first paragraph is what has spurred me to embark on a new project, called Philadelph.com – The website will focus exclusively on my photography of my hometown city of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. It’s run on the Tumblr micro-blogging service. The photos presented there are culled automatically from my photostream on Flickr.com
For more personal updates on my life, thoughts and actions… I can be followed on the popular, social tracking service, Twitter at username: attila (look at the “Twitter Updates” in the column to the right for snippets of my stream of consciousness)