Lots of the buildings around Independence Square if Kiev have items like this on their rooftops. Something about this specific statue caught my eye. I love our trip in 2018 to the Ukraine and to Chernobyl. I’m hoping to go back soon.
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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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Keeping with the Christmas theme, here is a unique perspective of the PPG Christmas Tree and Ice Rink. I’m sure this view has been captured before, but probably not by many. Happy holidays to you and your family.
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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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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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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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This isn’t my typical photo. First, I don’t normally include people especially tourist. Secondarily, it isn’t technically a good photo. But I liked how you get to see the entire scene with St. Peter’s Square in the foreground and St. Peter’s Basilica in the background. I loved the amazing architecture in Rome, especially in Vatican City.
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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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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.
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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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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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:
