This is the bridge our train crossed going back and forth to Chernobyl every day. Towards the end of the week, we went to this spot to photograph the bridge with the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Number 4 and its new sarcophagus in the background. As you can tell, it was very overcast that afternoon…..
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This is one of my favorite spots in Detroit. The Michigan Central Station in the background is a wonderful spot. The evening I took this photo, my group had 5 drones flying around at the same time (which was interesting)…. More importantly, the sky was magical that night to help make this photo special.
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I haven’t posted a Detroit photo in a while, so here we go. We had a hit list of Detroit Urbex locations to hit up, but we also explored some sites that we randomly found, just driving around. That’s the story of this spot. We went to the Michigan Central Station (the building outside the window) to photograph the area around it. During that time, we found this abandoned beauty with great views like this photo. I took a bunch of window photos like this one at this spot.
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I posted a photo from this day excursion months ago and sort of forgot about them. Tonight I was surfing through my hard drive and came upon the folder from this location. This is such a great location. This old train bridge a tornado knocked down. So they converted into a state park.
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While we were exploring Detroit, I captured this video of this church steeple with the Michigan Central Station in the background via my drone. Is this interesting or the most boring video of all time?
This weekend, MJ, Blair and I traveled to the Kinzua Bridge State Park in North Central Pennsylvania near the Allegheny National Forest. The bridge was originally built in 1882 and was labeled the Eighth Wonder of the World. It held the record as the tallest railroad bridge in the world (301 feet tall) for a short period of time. In 1900, they took it down and rebuilt it with steel to allow it to accommodate heavier trains. It was used for trains until 1959 and then sold to Pennsylvania to become a state park. They started to restore the bridge in 2002, but a tornado struck the bridge in 2003 before they finished the restoration project. The result of the tornado ended with a large portion of the bridge collapsing down into the valley and Kinzua Creek.
Fortunately for all of us, Pennsylvania still converted it into a State Park. They took one end of bridge (a portion still standing) and converted it into a large observation deck. There are also lots of hiking trails throughout the 316 acres. We hiked down one of the trails to the bottom of the valley, crossed over Kinzua Creek and walk around the debris field. Beyond the long drive, I love it. The State has done a great job converting this into a park and based on the number of people visiting it, it’s a success.
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This building is usually very restrictive when it comes to photographers. But a few weeks back, the “Open Doors Pittsburgh” event allowed the public to have access to buildings that are normally off limits. So I took advantage of that situation and captured some great photos all over downtown Pittsburgh.
This building used to be the train and bus station back in the day. Today is has a number of executive apartments inside it and some of the larger common spaces are used as event locations. So this former bus/train terminal is now a wedding reception venue. I love it.
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Tonight’s blog post is from the Fulton Street Subway Station in lower Manhattan. I’m not really which Manhattan neighborhood this is located within, since there are so many of them and I haven’t found a good source on where one neighborhood stops and another starts….
This subway station is amazing. The architecture of this structure is great inside and outside. Unfortunately, when I was there, photographing the outside wasn’t possible due to construction vehicles parked right in front of it.
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I took this photo a few weeks ago while biking on the Montour rail to trail that runs through Washington County. It was past fall color peak, but I still liked this setting. It was nice combining photography and biking. I should do more of that. Have a great weekend.
btw…..my thoughts are with the people of Paris tonight.
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MJ is out of town for very long business trip and I miss her dearly. I can’t wait for her to get home next week and in the mean time, I’ll just keep missing her.
Tonight’s photo is from the Pioneer Square Station in downtown Seattle. I took this last late last year when I was out there for work. I had a few days to photograph the city and I made good use of my time. I took this picture at around midnight. The only people in the station were the police, the homeless and I.
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Here is a tone mapped photo (HDR image created with one exposure) I took at the US Steel Building subway station in downtown Pittsburgh. I took this photo last week while on a photo walk with Dave and Brad. Honestly, I had a great time and we walked around for a few hours, but I didn’t take a bunch of photos. I don’t really know why….normally I take a ton. I just wasn’t feeling it. Anyway, I captured this scene and liked it. So I’m sharing it with you.
By the way, the passengers waiting to get on the subway and getting off gave us a bunch of weird looks. Clearly, they are not used to seeing photographers there. I just stared back at them.
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During my time in Seattle, I had a packed photography agenda covering lots of the city and the surrounding area. One of the planned locations was the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel station called Pioneer Square Station. I arrived at this location at around 11pm and the place was basically empty. The station is huge, so the 20 homeless people, 5 police and I had lots of room to avoid each other. Although, I’ll admit that 3 different police officers stopped me for taking photos. I thought that was interesting since the homeless can live in the station, but photographing the facility apparently isn’t allowed.
Anyway, this station handles the Sound Transit Central Link light rail trains, Sound Transit buses and King County Metro buses. It is completely underground with entrances at the corners. I don’t know about you, but I think there is beauty in the design of this station.
The iconic must see spot
in midtown Manhattan. The
authorities don’t like the use of tripods within the terminal, so I had to be
quick. I also didn’t extend my
tripod legs completely. I setup my
tripod on the banister to get it elevated and avoid extending it. I hope you like the photo.
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I took this picture about a month ago while walking around downtown with Brad and Dave Truxell. This “T” station which is called the Gateway Center Station is fairly new and cool looking. I hope you enjoy the picture.
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Here is another picture from the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum. Sorry for the short post tonight, I’ve been busy. I’ll have a more detailed post next time and I think it will be another from the ESP.
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MJ and I needed something to do on Saturday morning. We’ve traveled the county and most of
southwestern Pennsylvania a ton in the last three years. But we’d never gone to this museum even
though it isn’t far from our home.
It just wasn’t high on the “To Do” list.
Well it was nice because it was cheap, didn’t take to long (about 1.5 hours), they have about 30 different trolleys (some over 100 years old), and you get an actual trolley ride. It wasn’t exactly uber exciting, but it was fairly interesting.
I took this photo at the stop during the trolley ride, which allows everyone to walk the inside of the trolley storage facility. It is a 7 exposure auto-bracketed shot (+3, +2, +1, 0, -1, -2, -3) HDR photo merged in Photomatix Pro and edited in Photoshop CS6.
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I imagine this is what it would look like from an Ant’s
perspective. I took this picture
in Pittsburgh on the train track (captain obvious) while on a photo walk with
Brad and Dave Truxell about a month ago.
Photo Technique: This is a 7 exposure HDR images created with Photomatix Pro and Photoshop CS6.
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This restaurant is located in the restored Pittsburgh and
Lake Erie Railroad Station at Station Square in Pittsburgh. I took this picture in July 2012, while
on a photo walk with Brad and Dave Truxell. We didn’t plan to enter this building and the guys didn’t
think they would let us in to take photos. I usually don’t let the unknown stop me, so we just walked
into the business. Not only did
they not stop us, they welcomed us to take as many photos as we wanted.
I posted a few pictures of this place in the past, but they have all been of the outside of the building. Why didn’t I share this picture earlier? I don’t know. I just kind of forgot about it. I hope you enjoy this picture. It doesn’t do justice to how amazing this building is on the inside. The old train station architecture is very cool.
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With the cold weather, I’ve been trapped inside more then I
would like. So I’ve been looking
back at some photos I took during better weather for something to post for your
viewing pleasure. Tonight’s image
is of some train tracks running through the north side of Pittsburgh. Where they go, I have no idea.
This was captured with a 9 set auto-bracket set (+4, +3, +2, +1, 0, -1, -2, -3, -4). Merged together with Photomatix Pro and edited in Photoshop CS6.
