I know I said I wasn’t going to post until after Christmas but I don’t believe I can use this photo for any other day. I shot the photo in downtown Pittsburgh Sunday night and after viewing it I thought it would be a great candidate for a snow texture that I downloaded just the other day, especially since the…
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Just a thing
I see lots of things when I am out and about and todays photo is one of them. The bathtub in the field is an almost normal sighting in rural areas. A place for water or feed for livestock, I imagine. Most times they are near the barn or at least in the immediate vicinity, but this one wasn’t near…
Euro Love
It’s inevitable that when I view a gallery of someones trip to Paris on a photo forum, I’ll see a photo of the numerous padlocks attached to a bridge. Known as love locks, they are meant to symbolize everlasting love. I understand they are popular in a number of international cities and, as I discovered the other day, in Pittsburgh also! These are…
Wish I was there
When I’m browsing on dpreview.com and checking the latest camera gear discussions, I often like to check the photo challenges on the site and see if I have a photo that meets any of the themes available for submission. As long as there is no date taken requirement, I’ll just go through my archives and find the one that best…
It’s your show
While wandering around downtown Pittsburgh, I came across this art installation. It’s part of Project Pop-Up and I think it’s a creative way to use vacant store fronts, whereas in the town I live they would just put a display of lawn tractors from a local dealer. I love this kind of thing. To me its part of what makes…
Take a break
I think I’m too hard on myself about almost everything I do, especially photography. Although I try not to go at things too seriously, I get upset when I think I could do better. I know for sure that I could have done LOTS of things better throughout my life, yet here I am. I’m good with myself. Life is…
Scenes from a dirt road
I found myself on a narrow dirt road today, hugging along the hills of West Virginia. I don’t know if it was the worlds roughest road, but it was pretty rough. I had to chug along at a slight crawl trying to avoid whatever ruts and sharp rocks I encountered yet I still got tossed around in my truck. Throw in…
I miss the snow
Here it is, the 1st of February, the middle of winter, and we have yet to have any appreciable snowfall. We have only had a couple of snow events so far this winter and together they only amounted to just a few inches, and then quickly melted within the next day or so after they occurred. Mostly it has just…
Coincidence?
As I previously mentioned, I am redecorating some rooms in my house. After almost completing the dirty work of repairing the plaster walls and applying texture I went to purchase paint at Lowes yesterday. I already had a color picked out but as I was looking at the paint color palette brochures, I was surprised by the cover image on one of…
At least I tried (and other good news)
Grass-cicles Last night, after I finished my post, I walked down to the store on the corner. It was dark out and on the way back to my house I noticed the frozen grass in my yard reflecting the lights from nearby businesses. It was a cool (literally) looking scene and I thought I would try to capture it. Try,…
What I Pic 