Picture taking in Pittsburgh

I've been admiring these trees at CMU for awhile, but never thought to look closely at them until I saw a student taking this picture. Of course, I had to stop and look, even with the rain and darkness.

Sometimes Pittsburgh is just as beautiful as a garden in Japan.

Looking in the other direction there is a huge construction project to fix the sculpture, Walking to the Sky, which had evidently been threatening to take off. I missed a wonderful picture (another image for my museum of pictures I wish I had taken) last Thursday with all of these cranes and another machine emitting a cloud of steam. My excuse was rain. Here's one I took earlier in the week.

Here are a few more shots from around the 'burgh, because I like their geometry or their weirdness.

There is something surreal about that school bus. It's actually parked at the top of a parking lot, but it took me a while to figure it out.

 

My second favorite place in Pittsburgh, under the convention center. I've never seen the lights on before.

Comments

[raja]

I LOVE the photo with the school bus--you couldn't make those happen--you just got to be there and SEE it. That's why you are an excellent photographer/

[Mage Bailey]

Oh, the colors are wonderful in that tree shot, the school bus is a magic spot of color in the greyness, but the underground curving pathway is a magic road. It looks, in structure, a bit reminescent of the Tate in London. I wonder if one could just roll down the path.

[Alice]

More picture memories of Pittsburgh and that "allevard of the bullies." Your eyesight may not be what it was, but your vision for interesting photographs is still there--the bus and that.