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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I got up way to early today (430am) to go into downtown Pittsburgh to meet up with @bradtruxell and @dtruxell . We were on a mission to capture some Christmas themed photos before they disappear for the season and without tons of tourist in the way. We accomplished the mission…..
I took this photo at PPG Place. Every year they turn this courtyard into an ice-skating rink and put a giant holiday tree in the middle. About the only person we ran into was a security guard who was on us in about 30 seconds. He was nice, just watching us closely.
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It’s dark, cloudy, raining, cold, and just ugly outside my house today. Frankly, that describes the last three months near our place. Our weather hasn’t been great. So I’m posting a photo I took at sunset from our hotel in Bonaire to help me get over the poor weather blues. We spent a wonderful week on this island last September and I’m ready to go back. Just an amazing little slice of heaven.
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I hope you and your families have a great holiday season. Be safe, have fun and enjoy the weekend.
My holiday gift to you for your viewing pleasure is this photo I took at the entrance of the Bradley Elementary School. I loved the 2% Milk graffiti. Not the best graffiti I’ve seen, but it called to me.
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I loved this spot inside the ancient walled city of Dubrovnik. We stumbled upon this Cloister hidden among the tons of ancient architectural wonders. Its an amazing old city.
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Here is another photo from our time at the Smithsonian museums. This is from inside the Fine Arts Museum lobby. I loved all the marble, circles, and other architectural features. The people also provide some scale to show you how large this place is in real life.
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I’ve been trying to catch up on some of my photo editing lately. I’ll always be behind, but sometimes I get into these editing modes and zip through a bunch. With that in mind, I was in the editing zone yesterday and was working on some photos from the last Vikings game I covered. This is Terence Newman, who is now a coach for the Vikings after playing for 15 NFL seasons. He retired on September 1, 2018 and immediately became a coach.
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Here is an oldie…meaning I took this photo a few years ago. It has been sitting on my hard drive in my folder where I save photos to share with you some day. For whatever reason, I’ve passed over this one for some time. But today is the day for it. Enjoy this waterfall from Ricketts Glen State Park in central Pennsylvania.
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I rarely take photos of people when I’m off the football field. And almost never when we’re traveling… I’m just not into it most of the time. But on this day in Old San Juan, I couldn’t pass by this street performer without capturing a photo. He was just a cool cat with lots of character. By the way, you can see the cathedral (Catedral de San Juan Bautista) in the background.
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I need to plan another trip to NYC. It has been far to long and I’ve enjoyed every trip to this amazing city. Until then, I’ll have to continue to scroll through my NYC photos. Tonight, I’m sharing my photo of the Chrysler Building, from my last trip.
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Last spring, we left on a cruise out of Long Beach California. MJ and I arrived a little ahead of time and spent some time around that area exploring the city and visiting with friends. During that time, I took this photo of our hotel pool at night. It was the most interesting thing in the area (we stayed in Carson), since the hotel was surrounded by industrial sites.
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In the city of Pripyat (just outside the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant), we explored parts of the city center during our visit. They were getting ready for a city festival that was scheduled to take place and then the nuclear accident happened. As you can imagine, the city got evacuated and the festival never took place. Over thirty years later the carnival rides are still there abandoned like everything else. Ferris wheel, bumper cars, and other rides just rusting away….
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I’ve been to Washington DC a number of times, maybe more than 20 times over the course of fifteen years. During all those visits, I’ve never had the chance to visit any of the Smithsonian museums until our trip last August. MJ and I went to visit a couple of friends and she took me to the museums (she’s been before without me). I liked them all. I took this photo inside the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. If you’ve never visited these museums, put them on your “To Do” list.
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I love the design of this chapel. My three hours at this site wasn’t long enough…but it was getting cold and dark, plus visiting hours at the U.S. Air Force Academy were coming to an end…. So, I called for my Uber went back to my hotel. That was about a year ago. I’ll have to plan another trip in the future.
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It is so cold and dark in Pittsburgh this time of year. So I’m posting this photo from a past Mexico trip. Maybe it’ll help me get over this thing called winter.
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Last Sunday night’s game was enjoyable, at least for me. The weather was warm (for December), there was a lot of action, high scoring, and I didn’t get hurt. I only have a couple more home games to cover before the season is done….unless the Steelers have some playoff games at home. Here is a photo of Antonio Brown I captured last weekend. This was right after he scored a 28-yard touchdown in the second quarter.
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Per my normal routine, I’ve been hopping around processing photos from different trips, photo walks, locations, dates, etc… Last weekend I was processing photos I took in 2016 from the Carrie Furnace. That’s when I found this beauty waiting to be viewed. This was inside the main building that supported the steel blast furnace.
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Here is another photo from the Washington D.C. area. We had dinner in this area with our good friend, Nick. Toward the end of dinner, I went off and captured a few photos of this cool location. This is the pedestrian bridge along the Anacostia River.
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Wow!! Its been over a month since we left the Ukraine. I can’t believe it and I haven’t processed many photos from that trip yet. Heck, I’ve been trying to finish up photos from a 2016 Europe trip…. I can’t imagine how many years it will take me to process the tons of photos I took at Chernobyl. This is one of the few I’ve completed so far. Blair and I explored Nuclear Reactor #5, which never got completed. We found this view looking back at the melted down Reactor #4. As you can tell, they have the protective shield over it now.
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I took this photo in August while MJ and I were in Washington DC visiting friends. We stayed at a hotel a few blocks from the White House and I went over at sunset to capture some images. I had a hard time capturing any without the protesters who were in front. So I had to get creative with my composition.
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