I live in what is considered to be one of the San Fernando Valley's/LA County's "worst" areas. Yes, the train tracks next to my house, which act as a thin barrier between us and the projects, look like they came out of your quintessential "hood" film.

However, after I graduated high school, I realized that those same train tracks and urban decay that I once thought of as a plague I had to escape from, are really just embellishments to a different type of beauty rarely seen.

I decided to wake up this morning and get some shots of said train tracks in hopes that I could show you some of the beauty that is sometimes hidden beneath a curtain of urban demographics.

  

  

all photos © michelle aguila 2010