St Michael's Ceiling

April 20, 2020

Here is something a little different for you. This is the beautiful ceiling inside the Church of St Michael in Passau Germany. This picture doesn’t do the actual church ceiling justice. It was outstanding.

By the way, I took this photo last summer during a European river cruise with MJ and “The Neighbors”. “The Neighbors” refers to Kris and Scott who we travel with frequently and who used to be our actual neighbors. They travel with us so much and know I love photographing churches. So Kris refers to them as “ABC”…which stands for Another Big Church.

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Pennsylvanian Ceiling

February 1, 2020

I hope you’re having a great weekend. I can’t believe Saturday is already over…how did that happen. Oh yeah, I spent it organizing camera gear and cleaning up my camera room (MJ calls it my Junk Room).

Today’s post is the beautiful ceiling at the Pennsylvanian building in downtown Pittsburgh. This building was originally a train/bus station. They use it now as an apartment building and event center.

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Abandoned Beauty

March 1, 2018

Brad, Blair and I explored this wonderful site last weekend. It wasn’t an easy entry, but not the worst I’ve ever seen. I have no idea how long its been abandoned, but the ceiling was amazing. I spent most of my time focused on that and unfortunately, there wasn’t much else work photographing.

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Ceiling

March 4, 2017

Today’s photo is from the Basilica of National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC. I took this photo during my last visit to Washington DC. I’d love to go back, but they now have a renovation projection going on that will take a few years. So it will be a while before the scaffolding comes down. Maybe I’ll go back in a few years.

Beyond the scaffolding, this is an amazing facility. It is the largest Roman Catholic Church in all of North America and is one of the largest churches in the world (its in the top ten). It has so many great sanctuary locations inside with over 70 chapels and oratories. Every chapel has a different style and design. You could spend days in this facility and not catch all the little details.

Anyway, this photo is of one of the many dome ceilings looking straight up at it. Have a great weekend.

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St. Peter's Basilica

January 30, 2017

During our trip to Vatican City, we visited St. Peter’s Basilica. What an amazing visit!! I don’t know if our guide bribed the Vatican official or not (hard to believe), but we got to skip the entire line. There were thousands of people in line (at least it seemed like it) and they said the wait was about 2 hours long. Regardless, the guide got us inside in less then 10 minutes. It was an outstanding experience and I tried to capture as many photos as possible. This is of the ceiling just inside the front doors. I couldn’t use a tripod, so I did the best I could hand holding the camera.

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Renaissance Hotel Ceiling

January 19, 2017

Last spring I went on a photo walk with Blair, Dave and Brad. We explored some portions of downtown Pittsburgh. During that morning, we took over the lobby of the Renaissance Hotel to take pictures from every angle. The hotel staff and manager were great. They let us do our thing without any problems and even took us up to a room to take photos out the hotel windows. I may post a picture from that perspective/location at a future date.

This photo gives you a good look at the glass dome inside the beautiful lobby. Side note, I just processed this photo last night. So this photo sat on my hard drive for months just waiting for me to bring it to life. And now you get to experience it.

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Pittsburgh City Hall

October 26, 2016

This is also known as City-County Building. It was built from 1915 to 1917 and was designed by renowned architect Henry Hornbostel. This is the main hall as you enter the building. To keep the public out of my photo, I just tilted the camera up to avoid them. The only problem with that is that you don’t get to see the amazing lower third of the building. You’ll have to trust me that it is just as cool as the top portion.

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Rotunda

October 17, 2015

It’s been a few years since I was in San Francisco. But I’m still not done processing photos from that trip. Sad, but true. When you take as many photos as I do, it is easy to fall behind and I jump around a bunch when I am processing photos. I never just process one trip all at once. Anyway, today I had a chance to work on some processing and I decided to work on the SF trip. As I was working on them, I finished this photo. I honestly don’t even remember taking it, but I loved it.

This is looking straight up at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater rotunda ceiling. I’ve never seen this perspective photographed before, but I’m sure its been done a 1,000 times before. I hope you like it.

Notes:

· Great game today between the University of Michigan and Michigan State University football teams.

· I’ll be photographing the Steelers vs. Cardinals NFL game tomorrow. Look for me on the sideline. I’ll be the guy getting run over by 300-pound lineman.

Look Up

June 18, 2013

Tonight I have a ceiling for you. This is the dome ceiling from within the Washington County Court House building. The interior of this facility was renovated in the last year. The building was actually the 4th courthouse for the county and was built in 1900. I hope you like it.