There is this little Christmas Village inside Market Square in downtown Pittsburgh. This is the featured hut within the village. About the only time to catch it without a line of people is the middle of the night or very early in the morning, which is when I captured this.
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Hello Friday!!! I can’t wait for you to arrive and the weekend to start. So I’m going to keep this brief tonight. Enjoy this nice photo of Cementerio Santa Maria Magdalena de Plazzi in Old San Juan.
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I’ve posted a few pictures from this cemetery in the past. This is the Capilla del Cementerio Santa Maria in old San Juan Puerto Rico. I’m not ready for this spot to be my home yet, but when the time comes….this might be a great location. It has beautiful architecture, great history, a Spanish fort and an ocean view. Wow….
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I don’t know why I selected this photo for tonight’s post. Maybe I’m just looking forward to our next trip to the Caribbean. Of course, MJ still wants more African animals. Anyway, this is of the Capilla del Cementerio Santa Maria in old San Juan Puerto Rico.
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I posted a picture from the front of this building a week ago. This is the inside of Capilla del Cementerio Santa Maria Magdalena in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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I took this photo during our last trip to Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. I’ve been to Old San Juan numerous times, but I never explored the cemetery until this visit. I got lots of great photos of this spot.
Here is information on this location that I found on Puerto Rico Historic Building Drawings Society FB page. Their FB page states that this is a colonial-era cemetery that is the final resting place of many prominent residents. They started construction in 1863 outside of the walls of Fort Felipe del Morro fortress over looking the Atlantic Ocean. I found the place very interesting and beautiful in its own way.
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Unfortunately like many popular spots, there were tourists all over the place. So I aimed the camera up a little to avoid all the people standing between the Cathedral and I. By the way, this Cathedral is located in Florence Italy. This is a great spot with a nice courtyard in front of the church. They started building this facility in 1296 and finished it in 1436. As you can tell, it was a small construction project since it took them 140 to complete it.
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MJ and I have been in Pennsylvania for over two years now and I drive by an abandoned industrial property from time to time near our home. I am told it is an old box factory that was operated by a glass company. Back in the day, along with steel companies there were a large number of glass companies that operated around Washington PA making many different products. Today both the glass and steel companies are gone. Most of the old properties have been renovated for other uses or were destroyed to build something else. But this one large complex remains and I’ve talked about photographing on numerous occasions.
Well a few weeks ago, MJ and I went on a scouting mission to take a look at the property. While there we found lots of graffiti, but one individual’s work caught our eye and I went back to capture it for you. When we returned to photograph the graffiti, we scared off a few guys who appeared to be salvaging metal for recycling. When we pulled in, they left the site fairly quickly and gave us a good look over.
I hope this photo brings joy to your holiday season regardless to how and what you celebrate.
This photo was taken with a Nikon D800, 14-24mm f2.8 lens, aperture mode, with bracketing (+1, 0, -1) and a tripod. I processed the bracketed images using Photomatrix Pro and edited in Photoshop CS6
Happy Holidays.
Santa, Reindeer, & Snowman Graffiti on abandoned factory building
During my photo walk last Wednesday night; we came upon Santa’s House at Market Square in downtown Pittsburgh. As you can see, there was no line waiting to sit on Santa’s lap. You can also drop off your letter to Santa in the mailbox to the left of the house. This is setup in the middle of Market Square, which is little festival area where they hold different events just about every week with little shops and restaurants surrounding this square. The Pittsburgh Plate Glass (PPG) Plaza is next to it and partly attached.
TONIGHT:
MJ and I are going to Community Action Southwest’s Olde Fashioned Christmas fund raising event. I am on the Board of Directors of this wonderful non-profit organization that runs a number of programs, which all strive to eleminate poverty in our community. I donated one of my framed pictures for them to auction off tonight. I hope the organization raises a bunch of money, all of which goes direct to their great programs. If you would like to donate directly and can’t attend tonight, you can do so at:
