Christmas 2011 Decorations at Ajose Adeogun Street, Victoria Island, Lagos
Christmas eve 2011.
I decided to go make an interesting photograph of some “christmasy” decorated place around town. I chose upon the Zenith Bank Plc decorated roundabout on Ajose Adeogun Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
In order to get there and have sufficient time to scout the location for interesting angles, I figured I’d need to leave my pad like 5a.m.
For some strange reasons, I was still awake at 2 a.m!
I knew there just was no way I was going to make it if I didn’t force myself to grab some shut eye. I forced myself to shut down after setting the alarm for 5:00am.
I must have been so tired I woke up at 5:17 am instead! My brain actually fabricated a dream with the alarm tune playing as background music!
I jumped up and into my already laid out clothes and shoes, grabbed my camera bag and mouthwash. Rushed into the bathroom, washed my face and ran out of the house.
About 30 minutes later, I was on ground.
I found a good spot (or at least what I THOUGHT was a good spot to park), got my tripod and camera bag out, locked the car and began my recce of the site.
After walking around for about 5 or 10 minutes I elected upon an elevated position to shoot the scene from.
From where I was standing, I could catch a glimpse of the car from time to time.
And so I started shooting, working as fast and as carefully as I could to make the most of the rapidly changing pre-dawn light.
30 minutes later, I decided it was best to call it quits as the magical light I was hoping to see really just didn’t happen (due to the harmattan haze I guess).
After clambering down from my shooting position I spent a few minutes to say my thank you’s to the gentlemen who assisted me up the ledge I shot from.
I said my goodbyes and walked back to the car.
But what a shock I got when I got back to the spot where I’d left the car not quite an hour ago yet – The car was gone! Disappeared! Vanished into thin air!!
Wow!
What happened?
Find out in the new year on my new blog at http://www.modamo.com/blog.
In the meantime, here’s a photo from my little (mis)adventure on Christmas Day!
