Yesterday I had the fabulous idea to go wander the ghetto of San Diego and take pictures of awesome stuff.  San Diego has downtown ghetto and gangland ghetto.  I stuck with downtown…

I wandered from Harbor over to Chicano Park under the Coronado Bridge.  Matt came down and met me about half way through and I got to take a few more pics with one of his wide angle lenses.  All I have is a 50mm (which is really more like a 70mm on my small frame rebel) so it’s limiting in what you can shoot.  I had a crap tripod so it was pretty difficult getting sharp images.  I’m getting a new one in the mail monday so I may have to go shoot some of the areas again soon!  I was shooting mostly long exposure, 15-30 sec,  with really small aperture 15-22, iso 100.  I messed with other settings but I was getting the effect I wanted with this.

One of the highlights of the night was eating at “El Carrito” Restaurant.  It was this funky little taco shop I found down near Chicano Park that was an old converted train car and it was delicious.

It was a fine time wandering alone and hanging out with Matt.  You can find all the pics on my Flickr.