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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Logan Square
MJ and I were in Philly earlier this week for a very short visit. We didn’t get to do much (work trip), but I got a little free time to do some night photography around Logan Square. I took this photo from a roof top bar overlooking this area. You can’t see it in this photo…. but if you drove straight down the road in this picture….you’d run into the Rocky Statue.
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Fun In The City
Apparently, I’m not a very clever individual. I struggle more times then I’d like to admit coming up with things to say when I type up these blog posts. Maybe it is because I work on them after long hours at work…or maybe I’m just not very clever.
Therefore, you get boring posts….. I don’t really have anything clever to say tonight either. I took this photo on the Smithfield Bridge in Pittsburgh. If you haven’t seen it, I believe it is the most underrated bridge in and around the city.
Game Night
Short post tonight….. I took this photo a few weeks ago in downtown Pittsburgh while the Pirates were playing the Athletics. It seems like everyone takes photos of these bridges aimed the opposite direction (back towards the city). I don’t see many aimed toward the stadium….. So here goes.
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Speeding Across Smithfield
I took this photo about a year ago, but just processed (edited) it today. Using my normal process, (total random selection about what photo I process next) I came across this beauty this morning. I had a rare event happen. I had a few hours with nothing to do so I processed a large batch of photos. I normally do few per day, but don’t often get a large amount of time to dedicate towards it. It was raining outside, housework was done, and we didn’t have anywhere to go so it became photo editing time.
About this photo: Blair, Dave and I went for a photo walk in early 2018 around the Smithfield Bridge in Pittsburgh. We met up after work to capture some photos, grab dinner, and take more photos at sunset. I captured this one as a number of cars and a bus zoomed passed me. Pittsburgh has some interesting and beautiful bridges. The Smithfield Bridge is high on the list of wonderful spots.
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Transamerica Pyramid
What to post? That’s the question that plagues me just about every time I post a photo. I don’t like to post too many photos from the same area or subject matter in a row to keep you interested. But when you have thousands of photos, selecting one can be tough.
Some nights it is easy to select one, other nights I scroll for a long time. Tonight, I selected this photo from San Fran. Why? I really don’t know. I guess its just time for this photo to be released.
By the way, some of these drivers didn’t like me standing in the street to capture this pic. I can’t imagine why!!!
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Lombard Street
Like all tourist who visit San Francisco, I went to see Lombard Street. I have to admit, it was fairly cool. I visited it twice during my last SF visit. I was there the first time during the daylight (bright light). So I went back the next night to photograph it during and after sunset…. That’s when I captured this beauty looking up hill.
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Brooklyn Light Trails
I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. I know I did. It was a nice relaxing weekend. With that in mind, I’m going to keep this post short. I’ll let the photo speak for itself.
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Traffic light trails in Brooklyn
Capital Light Trails
Here is another photo from last week’s trip to Washington D.C. When you have limited time in an area, you have to make the best of what you get…. I didn’t get the best weather as you can see. Regardless, I sat in the middle of Pennsylvania Ave to capture this photo.
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Pennsylvania Ave.
Liberty Bridge
Here is a picture from last night. Blair and I planned to go out earlier in the week and we didn’t because I kept changing my mind. So we didn’t end up going out until last night. The weather was nice, but the sky didn’t turn out very pretty. I think we missed a few beautiful skies early in the week. Oh well……..
I scouted this spot before we left and it didn’t disappoint. It was fairly easy to get to and the view was great.
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Pittsburgh's Liberty Bridge
Peru Star Trails
This is my first ever attempt of photographing star trails. As you probably know, I take hundreds (thousands, if I’m honest) photos on all our trips. I don’t process them immediately after the trip. I get bored of processing to many photos in a row from one spot. So I jump around. I’ll process 5 photos from NYC, then some from Florida, then some from Pittsburgh, etc… You get the idea. Anyway, that means sometimes is takes me a few years to process all the photos from a trip. Why did I mention all that?
Well, back during our 2015 Peru trip, Michael and I went out one night to photograph the Milky Way. The moon cycle and weather was perfect for star photography. Plus that part of the world is great for Astrophotography. I took a bunch of photos of the stars, Milky Way and the sky. While I was there, I took a series of photos to create this star trail picture. But the photos sat on my computer for almost 2 years before I processed them last night. So my first attempt at star trails took 2 years to complete. I hope you enjoy it.
By the way, the structures in the foreground are ancient Incan building (thousands of years old).
Have a great day.
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US 279
This shot has been done by dozens, if not hundreds of Pittsburgh photographers. Regardless, I wanted to capture my version of this popular spot.
This is taken from a pedestrian overpass that crosses 9 traffic lanes of US 279 looking back south towards the city. The overpass has a chain link fence along the entire bridge, but someone (not me) cut holes in it just for photographers to take this picture without the fencing getting in the way. Again, I’ll stress it wasn’t me. The holes were already there when we showed up. Below I included a behind the lens photo taken with my iPhone to show you our set up (my camera next to Brad’s camera). The hole in the fence was small, so we had to work close to each other.
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My camera on the left, Brad's on the right. It was nice of someone to cut this hole for us.
360 Loop
Earlier this year, I got a chance to travel to Austin Texas. I’ve never been there before and I’ll admit now that the city was very nice. The University of Texas is in the middle of the city, everything was clean and nice. The Texas State Capital building was amazing as well. I always find it interesting what characteristics cities have…and they do have them. Cultures, trends, feelings, etc… Every city seems to have a “vibe” to it. Well, Austin had a young, start up, healthy, high-energy vibe. The general population seemed to have an average age younger then many cities, probably due to the location of the University of Texas. It is a “start up” location with lots of new IT companies. Lastly, there were more joggers in that city then I’ve ever seen in one place without an official race or event taking place. It felt like you couldn’t live in that city without being a jogger.
Well anyway, I did my normal thing. I had a list of locations I scouted in advance that I wanted to see and photograph. My first night there, I went to the northwestern side of the city to climb this bluff to watch the sunset and photograph this spot. I thought it would be cool with the Colorado River, 360 Loop (highway) bridge and the vehicle light trails.
The location didn’t disappoint me. What did surprise me is how many other people were up there to watch the sunset as well. In retrospect, I shouldn’t have been surprised. If I can find out about it from my computer in Pittsburgh, the locals must all know about it as well. Silly me. So I got some great photos pre, during and after sunset. I hope you have a great Thanksgiving Eve and Holiday tomorrow.
Emerald City
I finally got out to Seattle. What an outstanding city. It has been a little cold, but honestly, I got great weather for November (sunny, clear sky). It could have rained or snowed on me. I also have the best wife in the world. She is okay with me adding a few days on trips like this to capture some images (I am here for work). And I took advantage of every moment. I was up before sunrise every day and I didn’t get back to my hotel room until well after sunset. I may never come back to Seattle again, so I wanted to maximize the opportunity.
Today’s photo was taken from within the Dog Park on Beacon Hill just south of Seattle. The freeway in the center of the photo is the US 5, which I think makes for a nice foreground with the vehicle light trails.
Have a great Monday.
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