It’s been a while since I did a photo walk in downtown Pittsburgh. This photo is from just before the pandemic. It is weird how time seems to have changed speed during COVID. Some things appear to be going faster and some slower. The pandemic has negatively impacted my photography opportunities.
Regardless, I always liked this photo with the city bus passing by as I took the exposure.
Back on November 19th, I shared the first image from this photo shoot. Here are the rest of the photos from that night and a behind the scenes video.
This photo has been sitting on my hard drive for a long time. It was captured during the filming of our 3rd documentary…which never got out of editing room. Life got in the way.
I doubt anyone else has ever captured the Clemente Bridge like this before, but I could be wrong. It’ll be interesting to see if others have done it or will in the future.
Jason did a great job spinning that night.
I haven’t had a chance to capture any fall color photos this year. I’ve just been busy with other activities. So here is a photo I took last year in northern Michigan.
During my London visit, Robert showed me this cool alley to capture some wonderful images of the Shard, which is what they call the tall skyscraper in this photo. I liked this version from the numerous I took in this area. For this photo, I moved the camera right up next to a glass building to get this reflection.
During a trip to London, I got a chance to visit a few amazing sites, conduct business and visit with friends (Karl and Robert). I am very thankful to them for showing me the city and sharing a few pints. A couple days after our nice visit, I met up with Robert again before sunrise (he wasn’t happy about getting up early) to capture some photos around Tower Bridge on the Thames River. I got some great photos that morning. Here is one from the street at the beginning of the bridge before sunrise. I’ll post some more photos from this morning in the future.
By the way, I had a great time with my work peers, our attorneys, and the Howden insurance brokers as well.
MJ and I drove about 45 minutes out of our way to visit this village. Seydisfjordur is a super cool little town isolated by itself on the other side of a mountain at the end of a fjord. As you cross over the mountain you go from summer weather with green vegetation to snow and back down through what seemed like dozens of switchbacks to summer weather again. Once you arrive, this wonderful village sits there by itself. The village is sandwiched between the steep mountain face and the ocean.
Honestly, the village is amazing. They have turned this old fishing village into a travel destination. It’s very clean, unique, pretty setting with nice bars, restaurants, stores, and other attractions. If I could go back in time to redo anything about our Iceland trip, I’d change our travel arrangements so that we stayed the night in this town. More time in this spot would have been great.
Anyway, they have this cool photographic street that leads right up to the church. The Icelandic people are very inclusive and embrace everyone including LGBTQ+ members of their society. To the point, they are proud to create and display symbols like this…. It doesn’t require Pride Month for a few to show their support. Iceland supports the LGBTQ+ members every day, including in this tiny rural village…. It was spending a little time with people who are welcoming to everyone…unlike the fair amount of hate we have in the United States.
Here is another unique location from the city of Reykajvik. Skolavordustigur Street leads right up to the Hallgrimskirkja Cathedral in the central city.
I love how the Iceland people embrace all individuals, including the LGBTQ+ community. Their level of inclusiveness is a model for the world.
I honestly couldn’t remember which city this was form unit I zoomed in on the bus. Either I’m getting too old or there have been too many trips. It has to be age because you can never have too many trips.
Arriving at downtown Pittsburgh from this bridge is one of the few great city entrances. You can’t see the city driving towards it due to Mt. Washington and then you enter the tunnel, which is maybe a mile lone (not totally sure on that distance). As soon as you exit the tunnel, you are immediately on Fort Pitt Bridge and the city explodes into view. I’ve never found anything like it in any other city.
Here is a short drone time lapse video (what DJI calls Hyperlapse) of downtown Pittsburgh from the Fort Pitt Bridge back down the Allegheny River. I captured this last Sunday morning before sunrise.
This is really the Smithfield Bridge in downtown Pittsburgh. This is one of my favorite bridges in a city with tons of bridges….
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This great facility is also known as the Great Synagogue or Tabakgasse Synagogue. It is also the largest synagogue in Europe seating up to 3,000 people. Great spot to visit just to take in the wonderful architecture.
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Happy Thursday night. Here is a photo I took about this time last year. I took this from the 6th Street Bridge (also called the Clemente Bridge) which connects the North Shore to downtown Pittsburgh.
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This is from my last trip to San Francisco. Better times. All the times I’ve been to San Fran, I’ve never ridden on the Trolley, but I have visited Alcatraz Prison (seen in the background).
Here is another Baltimore photo for you on back to back nights. This is from the famous Graffiti Alley in West Baltimore. We (Jason, Jake and I) hung out here for a while capturing photos, video, drone footage and steel wool shots. At this location, we met a large group of young men who kept saying they were “100% Bangers” whatever that meant. Jake got wrapped up into photographing them all, like a mini photo shoot.
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I’m sorry…..another short post today….straight to the photo. I took this last summer well after dark on a night the city was dead….as you can tell since there were no cars on the street except for a couple. So, there you go!!
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Okay. Next year I either need to get out and take a ton of holiday photos from numerous spots or just post fewer holiday photos….. But this year I didn’t get out much, so you got stuck with numerous photos from PPG Plaza….
Merry Christmas.
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For your Saturday viewing pleasure, here is a photo from the Clemente Bridge in downtown Pittsburgh. I took this photo a few months ago on a great evening out taking photos with some friends.
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I don’t have much to say tonight, so I’ll just leave you with this photo of the Clemente Bridge (6th Street) and the Pittsburgh skyline beyond it.
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