Well its official. Antonio Brown is being traded from the Pittsburgh Steelers to the Oakland Raiders. He’s taking his extremely good football skills and over-heated ego to the west coast. He was also quick with his giant smile. It was fun watching him play over the last seven years while I covered the team. I wish him the best.
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The photo came from a past photo walk with Brad and Dave to Schenley Park in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh. We went during a rather ugly time of year. It was cold with no snow and of course the trees had no leaves. So I made the best of the situation and tried to capture an unusual perspective…the underside of the bridge.
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Underside of the bridge
Here is another photo from our photo walk around Carnegie Mellon University. The stairwell inside Baker Hall is very interesting and made for a great photo. I must have taken photos of this stairwell from 25 different angles. Anyway, I hope you have a great week.
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Back in January, Brad, Dave and I complete a photo walk around CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh. What a great college campus. We took a number of photos inside some of their amazing buildings. This is the lobby of their College of Fine Arts. How cool is this place? My opinion…. Super Cool.
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This is the underside of the Panther Hallow Road inside Schenley Park. Brad, Dave and I spent some time wandering around this park in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh.
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Today I’m sharing this photo I took of Free Safety Charles Woodson, when Oakland was in town a few weeks ago. I’ve always liked Charles since his playing days at the University of Michigan. It’s hard to believe he has been in the NFL for 18 years. Gosh, I’m getting old. Anyway, have a great football weekend.
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Steelers’ fans travel well and follow their team all over the country. What I didn’t know was that Oakland Raiders’ fans travel in mass as well. On top of the number of fans, they don’t just wear a Raiders jersey. Many of them wear very detailed and over the top costumes. I took more fan photos at the Steelers vs. Raiders game then I normally do in an entire season.
I hope you enjoy seeing the photos as much as I enjoyed taking them. I’ve also included a few photos of other off field items that I thought was interesting.
Army 316 ESC Unit
My friends
Some of Pittsburgh's finest.
Normally off the ball action doesn’t get much photography attention. On this specific play, I was following Antonio Brown down the field snapping photos as he went. I loved the intensity of both players in this picture.
By the way, Antonio vs. DJ wasn’t even a close match up. Antonio had 17 catches for 284 yards. He ran wild all over the field and had his way with DJ.
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Me just prior to the game.
Here is an oldie. I took this photo back in 2012 of the Carnegie Music Hall in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh. I processed it but never shared it with the world. Last night I was digging through my files and found it…but I didn’t like it. So I took my original 7 exposures from that day and re-processed it last night. I like it much better.
You can see some previous photos from that day at the links below:
http://brook-ward.com/blog/2013/8/9/new-development-part-ii
http://brook-ward.com/blog/2013/1/17/carnegie-music-hall-2nd-floor-lobby
Have a great Saturday.
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Last night I got an opportunity to take some photos with Dave and Brad Truxell. We debated about where to meet and ended up settling for the Oakland area of Pittsburgh (since the Pirates had a home game downtown). This area of Pittsburgh is very busy, vibrant and has that “college vibe”…..maybe because the University of Pittsburgh campus and a few other colleges are spread throughout the area. It isn’t the typical college campus. It is more like NYU (college buildings spread around the city).
Anyway, we walked around taking pictures and ended up inside the Cathedral Of Learning. If you don’t know, this is the tallest college/university building in the United States. The public is welcome on the first three levels, which includes the famous Harry Potter like common room and the international classrooms. We’ve taken photos of those areas before, so we went for the elevators to explore the upper floors. We ended up on the 36th floor, which is setup for the Honors College students. There is a nice 2-story suite up here for these students.
Tonight’s photo is of the stairway connected the two floors of the Honors College on the 36th and 37th floors. It is a 5 exposure auto-bracketed HDR image.
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MJ and I were trying to check into our flight for our
upcoming trip and got an error message telling us to call the airline customer
services. Well, we’ve been on hold
for over 2 hours with no contact except the same darn three airline ads playing
over and over and over and over…… Airline
Phone Hell!!!
So while I am waiting on hold, I decided to process a photo, which would bring calm thoughts to my current state. Thus the picture of the stairwell from within the Heinz Chapel. Something about this makes me relax.
This was a 9 exposure auto-bracketed set merged in Photomatix Pro with minor edits completed in Photoshop CS6.
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Teaser: I should have some great pictures for you soon from my upcoming trip, assuming we ever get off the airline’s phone hold line.
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Tonight’s photo is a HDR Vertorama of the Heinz Chapel in
the Oakland area of Pittsburgh. This
church is part of the University of Pittsburgh campus. I haven’t completed a ton of panoramas
or vertoramas, but I kind of liked this one.
In the past and in the future, I have posted pictures under the copyright rules of Creative Commons, Non-Commercial, Attribution Required, No Derivatives. All that means is that you are free to download my images and use them for free on your personal PC or electronic device for your wallpaper, screen saver, etc..
If you use a picture on your personal blog, you can as long as you link the picture to my site and give me credit. What you can’t do is use the image for any commercial use without licensing the image from me with my permission. I haven’t put Watermarks on my pictures because I thought you would appreciate clean pictures without that junk in the way.
I trust people in general and expect people to be honest. So last night, I read an article by another photographer who does the same thing, but checks his images by searching the web occasionally. So I tried that and was shocked!!! I had one picture that was stolen and used on at least 20 commercial business sites. So I spent the night contacting all of them to request they remove my photo from their sites.
Some sites took my photo, put their own Watermark on them and claimed the photos as their own. Frustrated!!! All of them are thieves.
So for now, I am going with Watermarks based on last night and my eye opening experience.
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I completed a few pictures from my excursion to St. Paul Cathedral in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh recently and I didn’t like many of them using my normal HDR settings. So I experimented with this photo a little and processed it in two different ways. Which do you prefer? Option A? Or Option B? Let me know what you think.
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About a week ago, I was in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh and had some time to kill. Thankfully, I had my camera with me and I saw this giant church above all other buildings in the distance. It was a beacon calling me in to check it out. As I approached I was happy to see the church was open even though it was early in the morning, which also meant I had the place basically to myself. I spent about an hour photographing the inside of this 107-year-old beautiful facility, which is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh
I have a ton of great photos from this location, but tonight I decided to post one with a rather unusually POV (Point Of View). I hope you like it.
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In honor of the NCAA National Championship Men’s Basketball game tonight, I am posting one of my college basketball shots from earlier this season. This is from the Syracuse vs. Pitt game at the Peterson Center in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh. Pitt won this game, even though it appeared as if Syracuse was the better team that day.
Both teams made the NCAA Tournament, with much different results. Pitt lost in the first round, while the Orange Men lost in the Semi-Final game to my home state Wolverines.
Neither team had the season ending they wanted, but both had what I would consider successful seasons. So regardless of who you want to win, remember they are all winners and cheer for the Maize and Blue.
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The main Carnegie Museums sit in the Oakland area of
Pittsburgh. Part of the museum
includes the Carnegie Music Hall, which is a remarkable Italian Renaissance
architectural design commissioned by Andrew Carnegie. Construction was started in 1891 and it has been used for
performance ever since.
Last spring, I called, emailed, and bugged the Events Coordinator until she allowed Brad, Dave, MJ and I access to photograph the inside of this amazing building. Tonight’s photo is of the main lobby outside of the music all. They had it setup for a wedding reception later in the day, which is a popular venue for receptions and events.
I captured this photo with a 3 exposure auto-bracketed set of images (+1, 0, -1) and created the HDR image with Photomatix Pro. If you ever get a chance to visit this location, please do so. It is worth the time to walk the facility. The attached museums are also great, but expect to spend more then a full day and you’ll still miss items. For more information on the Carnegie Museums, click HERE.
http://www.carnegiemuseums.org
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This picture isn’t in the Music Hall, but is in the museum: Museum Hall
