This is the entry to the Pennsylvanian building in downtown Pittsburgh. This building was originally a train and bus station. Today it is a event venue, office building and has apartments inside it.
1st Presbyterian Christmas Tree
This beautiful old church is in downtown Pittsburgh…. They do a great job of decorating for the holidays.
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Pittsburgh Classic
Here is another classic Pittsburgh location. This is the Pennsylvania Building in downtown Pittsburgh. Water puddles are great things!! Do you agree?
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Pennsylvanian Ceiling
I hope you’re having a great weekend. I can’t believe Saturday is already over…how did that happen. Oh yeah, I spent it organizing camera gear and cleaning up my camera room (MJ calls it my Junk Room).
Today’s post is the beautiful ceiling at the Pennsylvanian building in downtown Pittsburgh. This building was originally a train/bus station. They use it now as an apartment building and event center.
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Christmas Lights
Last weekend, I captured this photo in Market Square in downtown Pittsburgh. Brad Truxell spotted this composition. I just copied his idea and captured the scene with my camera. So, I want to give him credit for the idea.
Happy Holidays
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Arches
Blair and I went to this spot after listening to a presentation by Trey Ratcliff a few months ago. I posted a photo of this building back then, but sort of forgot about the rest of them until tonight. So, now you get another (belated) Pennsylvanian building photo. I love this part of this building. Anyone know what this architectural feature is called?
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Pennsylvanian
Blair and I got a chance to meet the world-famous photographer Trey Ratcliff last night. We spent a couple of hours with him and 11 others talking photography, travel, fun and life. Afterwards, Blair and I went over to the Pennsylvanian to capture a bunch of photos like this. This current apartment building, former train station, is very unique. The building security usually run photographers off, but last night we had free access to capture all the photos we wanted. I’ve seen lots of photos of this building before, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it captured like this….. I hope you like it.
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Copy-Cat Photo
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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Calzone's
On my first night in San Francisco, I ate dinner outside at this restaurant. It was such a cool experience just watching the people and traffic pass by my seat. And the food was great as well. I liked this spot so much, that a couple of days later I went back to photograph the building after sunset.
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Turkish Grand Bazaar
So….I’m sorry that I’ve been absent lately. MJ and I were on another badly needed adventure with our good friends (Kris and Scott). I’ll be the first to admit that I needed that time away and I had a great time. As far as trips go (for us) it was a very relaxed trip. Lots of naps, down time, sun, a few beers and just fun (no stress) activities.
We’ve traveled with Kris and Scott many times and they make it easy. We all get along, enjoy each other’s company and just go with the flow. I want to thank them and MJ for the wonderful trip.
Anyway, while we were in St. Thomas, Kris found this awesome store called the Turkish Grand Bazaar. I loved this place. The store employees were great. I think they are all family members, but I don’t know that for sure. We shared, talked and laughed. They had so many amazing items in this store, MJ and I could have spent a lot of money in that spot. I loved all the colors, lights, and cool items. Tonight’s photo is some of the colorful lamps. I loved them all.
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Turkish Grand Bazaar
Pittsburgh's West End Lights
Tonight, I present you a HDR panorama picture of Pittsburgh
taken from the West End Overlook where the three rivers come together. You can see the West End Bridge, Rivers
Casino, and Heinz Field (this is where the Steelers and the University of
Pittsburgh Panthers play football) along the river on the left. Of course, you can also see The Point with
the downtown behind it. On the right,
you can see Station Square and Mt. Washington.
I posted a similar picture in a previous blog post that you can see HERE.
http://brook-ward.com/blog/2012/12/1/lazy-saturday-night
This was taken about 30 minutes after the sunset with a long exposure to capture all the traffic lights streaking around the streets. This is a 5-bracket set (+2, +1, 0, -1, -2) merged in Photomatix Pro and edited in Photoshop CS6.
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