The Classic Pittsburgh Winter Scene

This scene has been photographed so many times over the past many years, I had to try and take one myself.

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Reflections on the Allegheny - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

The wind was calm and the steam was rising from the generation plant nearly vertically when I started this exposure series. The river was smooth, but not quite glass smooth, still, it makes for a good reflection. It was also cold. Not horribly cold, but cold none the less.

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Pittsburgh before the Storm

The front is moving in and the clear sky had just started to give way to the high, thin clouds that are the harbinger of the first snow storm of the year. It's likely that Pittsburgh won't get much snow, but, like, who knows.

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Heinz Field and Pittsburghs North Shore - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

The City and the Stadium lit up.

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Looking North West for 245 Seconds - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

The shutter was held open for 245 seconds (which is just shade over 4 minutes). Note the solid light trails for both the headlights and taillights from the traffic traveling on PA65.

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Heinz Field and Pittsburghs North Shore - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

I captured two images of the stadium. This is the second one. I would be very interested in seeing which one is generally preferred.

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December 30, 2018: The Day Pittsburgh (briefly) Became Cleveland Browns Fans

For a few beautiful, but very odd minutes at the end of their victory over the Cincinnati Bengals, the entire city of Pittsburgh became ardent fans of the Cleveland Browns. Additionally, in this brief, but all too real reality odd things happened: Primanti Sandwiches were made with Slymans Corned Beef and Heinz Ketchup and Bertmans Mustard were applied on Italian sausages across the two valleys.

Moments later it all ended and the reality that we knew before had returned.

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Pittsburgh: Love is Stronger than Hate

I really love small details like this.

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Traffic - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

There were a lot of people getting off at Exit 2B (E. Ohio Street) to PA 28 North.

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Crescent Moon over Steel

The moon was low on the horizon and it just happened to catch my eye as it sat just above the Roberto Clemente bridge.

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The Pittsburgh Creche

I've been meaning to come down and take a photo of the Creche for a while now and tonight I got the opportunity. This was much more difficult to shoot than I was hoping, but I'm pretty happy with this result.

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Pittsburgh From the North #3

It's been while since I was last up at this particular location. It's still a wonderful view and it was CRYSTAL clear this night. I really like the look of the traffic and the business of the city.

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City Highways at Sunset

The more I look at this image the more I like it. The leading lines of the highway headed ultimately north of the city give this a really strong visual flow. The sunset - while I missed the glorious colors by a few minutes, still glowed on the horizon during early blue hour.

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Skyline from Parkway North

Over the walkway and through the hole in the fence there is an absolutely beautiful view of the city.

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Doors to Heinz Chapel

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Heinz Chapel and Cathedral of Learning

The open sky between Heinz Chapel and the Cathedral of Learning on Pitts campus. Looking upwards sometimes yields interesting and unusual images, particularly if you have equipped with a VERY wide lens.

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Highways through Pittsburgh

The sunset was gorgeous tonight and I totally missed it. I got this instead. I think it came out pretty good.

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Football Night in Pittsburgh - December 2, 2018

Football in Pittsburgh is a big deal.

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Christmas Wreath - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Christmas in the City is a really neat time. In this case, there was no snow which would have made this image REALLY magical. As it is, I think it's only MOSTLY magical. I think this needs to be a Christmas postcard or Christmas card.

Postcards are available in the "Buy" menu btw.

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Roadways on the Point - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

I really like the giant S curve of the highways from I-376 to I-279N

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Duquesne University - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

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Ft. Pitt Bridge - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

The Fort Pitt bridge in downtown Pittsburgh is a really wonderful structure. Tonight I had the opportunity to go under the bridge near Station Square on the south bank of the Monongahela River just upstream from the confluence of the Ohio River.

The high key black and white really makes the leading lines of the bridge stand out and the structure under the road deck pop.

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Hornes Christmas Tree - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

The Hornes Christmas Tree up close.

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Horne's Christmas Tree - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

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Ice Skating and the Joy of the Holidays

I went back downtown tonight to try and reshoot some of the images of the ice rink. I'm significantly happier with this image.

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Ice Skating at PPG Place - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

I guess at this point its difficult to hold on to the notion that its still "practically Summer". Pittsburgh's "Light Up Night" was last night to mark the start of the holiday season and the ice rink at PPG Place was quite packed. I really like how the motion of the skaters is really apparent.

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House in the Snow - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Here is the first snow of the Autumn 2018.

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Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Polish Hill - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

I was wondering around and found a neat view down Brererton St. The neighborhood is quiet as most people were either sleeping or watching Netflix (or so I would assume).

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Thursday Night Football in Pittsburgh

Thursday Night football came to Pittsburgh. I think this came out pretty well.
The aspect ratio of this image is 2:1 so 10x20 or 12x24 and 20x40 would make a really nice print.

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Washington Landing - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Blue and Orange have always been my favorite color combination. The orange of the street lights and the blue of the sky illuminated by the city were just magical. Also, the depth compression between the foreground and background really makes this image interesting, at least in my opinion.

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Emerald Overlook - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

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PPG Place and the Highmark Building - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

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Heinz Field - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

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Down the Allegheny - Pittsburgh Pennslyaniva

The night tonight was much clearer than it has been in the past few nights. It was also much less hazy than the last time I tried to take this particular image. This was taken from the 40th street bridge near Lawrenceville.

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Halloween Night - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Its been four days since the horrifying massacre in Squirrel Hill. The buildings have been lit up in blue since Saturday night in honor of the victims (normally the Gulf Tower is also lit in blue, but will occasionally switch to Pink and the normal weather forecast color-set).

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Two Roads - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

This image sparks so many different ideas and feelings it's hard to put everything down in words. The two roads, the upper leading to the highways and neighborhoods. The lower road leading past the county jail and the bail bondsman.

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Crossing the Monongahela

I managed to capture the entire crossing of the local light rail train over the Monongahela river.

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Towers and Clouds - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

The US Steel Tower (now occupied and signaged by UPMC) is such a unique skyscraper in both shape and color scheme compared to the other buildings in downtown Pittsburgh. The wind was blowing pretty hard and a cold weather front was moving through which made for wonderful clouds moving pretty quickly.

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Highway Entrance - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

I've always liked how the entrance from 6th street onto the crosstown boulevard looked, especially at night with the skyline behind the road signs.

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Downstream - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

After months of being closed for repairs, the walkway on the Liberty bridge is FINALLY open and I got a chance to walk over it. I think I like how this one turned out. Note the strong lens flare from the street light I was standing right next to.

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Downtown Pittsburgh from Mt. Washington Overlook

There is a reason it's called "GrandView Ave."
This wasn't at all what I went down to photograph. The space station pass was totally clouded over which was super disappointing. Still, I think this is a pretty good image.

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Pink Reflections - Pittsburgh Pennslyvania

I really like the flag and the reflection of the light from the Highmark building.

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Highmark Lit Pink

This is an almost exact reshoot of the image I took a few days ago except that the pink lights are on. I really like the color tones of this.

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Pittsburgh from the West End Overlook after the Storms

The view from the West End Overlook is, in my opinion, one of the best views of the city. The clouds, however, is what I think really makes this image pop.

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Downtown Pittsburgh from the 40th Street Bridge

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40th Street Bridge View - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

This was the first time I have photographed the city from this location. The air was a bit hazy and so the colors of the city lights bled all over the place creating some significant atmosphere.

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PPG Place - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

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