I don’t know who took this perspective first, but I’ve seen a ton of Pittsburgh based photographers post this exact composition over the last 6 weeks. So, while we were downtown walking around yesterday capturing the city holiday scene, we captured this as well. Dave posted his version yesterday… Now it’s my turn. I hope you enjoy this copy-cat photo. Happy Holidays.
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I got up way to early today (430am) to go into downtown Pittsburgh to meet up with @bradtruxell and @dtruxell . We were on a mission to capture some Christmas themed photos before they disappear for the season and without tons of tourist in the way. We accomplished the mission…..
I took this photo at PPG Place. Every year they turn this courtyard into an ice-skating rink and put a giant holiday tree in the middle. About the only person we ran into was a security guard who was on us in about 30 seconds. He was nice, just watching us closely.
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I hope everyone is having a great Christmas, holiday, or whatever you celebrate. MJ and I gave each other a long weekend away. We skipped town and went to Miami. While we were there we went to South Beach, Bal Harbor, Bayside, a Monastery Cloister built in the year 1133 and I went scuba diving. We have to be the only people who visit a Monastery while on vacation. I’ll have some pictures from the Miami trip for you soon. For now, I have a holiday (Christmas) tree picture for you.
This is the Christmas tree in the middle of the ice skating rink at PPG Plaza in downtown Pittsburgh. I took this in early December, while on a photo walk with Dave and Brad Truxell. This is a 5 bracket set (+2, +1, 0, -1, -2), processed with Photomatix Pro and edited in Photoshop CS6.
There are a few other photos from that evening in the Gallery - Pittsburgh Area folder: http://brook-ward.com/pitt-test/
PPG Plaza
PPG Place
In front of the PPG (Pittsburgh Plate Glass) corporate headquarters, they have an ice skating rink with this large Christmas tree in the middle. In the summer time, there is a water fountain in this spot for kids to play in the water. This time of year, people can ice skate. It is a very pretty location and fun environment. I took this picture last night while on a photo walk with Brad and Dave Truxell. It was a very cold evening, but we have a good time walking around downtown Pittsburgh capturing holiday moments.
