Kelly Christopher Luttrell

an amazing day.headed out towards detroit to take some shots of the city, and on the way i wanted to finally get a shot i have plotted to get for years...the skylineof detroit from the top of the 75 overpass near rouge. so i headed towards schaeffer(sp?) and fort street near where the overpass begins and locked my bike up near the wall that is supposed to keep me out i presume...then i preceded to climb over that wall, camera and tripod in hand, and walked along the shoulder of oncoming traffic up the slope...shot a vid...it was sketchy for sure, figured i might get arrested or hit by flying shrapnel all final destination style and what not...but nope...got to the top, set up the camera, wasn't the clearest day in the world, but i think i may be able to work with the shots i took and come up with something pretty cool...so there i was, top of the 75 overpass, camera set up...and a huge semi drove by super fucking close and the residual wind blew my hat right off my head on over the wall of the overpass where it slowly descended onto the train tracks below..nearly got ran over and destroyed several times...so, i took a couple more shots, and walked back down the slope, where i came across a car along the shoulder that wasnt there when i first walked past...i walked past at first, not giving any mind to the situation, and as i walked past the car, i turned around as i realized they may need help..it was an elderly man, so i asked him if everything was ok..he was out of gas he said. i asked him if he had a cell phone to call anyone, and he said he was just going to wait there for a policeman to possibly drive by and that they might be able to get him some gas..i asked him why he would do that, and he said because he didn't have any money to spend...i asked if he had a gas container, we checked the trunk...and he did. so i walked down to the gas station several blocks away and filled his container and got him on his way, he thanked me...and it felt good to have been able to help. i then continued to get my bike and find access to the train tracks, because there is no way in hell i was going to say goodbye to that hat without trying to get it back...had to climb a fence illegally...but i got my hat back...hell yes. i also got some really good shots while i was down there...and then, i hopped on a bus with my bike on the front bike rack, and made my way into the city...where i thouroughly enjoyed trolling through the dirty alleyways and out of the way places where grafitti may be hiding, and met and talked to alot of really cool people around the town who gave me some good places to shoot. all-in-all: an amazing day with a few adventures and some good karma hopefully.