Friday

It's not often that you wake up on a February morning, make some coffee, step outside and are shocked by the fact that's it's sunny and nearly seventy degrees out.

I'm not sure what it is about nice weather, and usually when it's not the norm, but it's inspirational. When an unseasonably pleasant day comes along, it's nearly impossible to just relax. Needless to say, I pumped myself full of coffee, went on a mad cleaning frenzy, and went to the park to catch the sunset.

Of course by Monday, the weather reminded me that it is still February, and that everybody in Pittsburgh needs to take a class on how to drive in the snow.

Nature is such a tease some times.

More Long Exposure

Keeping with the long-exposure photography trend, I walked down to the overpass to take some shots of the parkway.

25-second exposure 1600 ISO

30-second exposure, 1600 ISO

30-second exposure, 800 ISO

All of them were at a 23 aperture focal length to get the greatest depth of field.

This getting to be more fun every day.

Moving Lights

Since I got my new camera, I've been reveling in the endless possibilities it offers. One possibility that I find myself particularly attracted to is experimenting with different shutter speeds and particularly, the ability to do light paintings.

Here are a few that I was fond of.

I also started playing around with the lighting of various scenes with different colours and a 30-second exposure. What's come out so far has been really surreal.

Weather: CLE-0 PGH-1

It seems like all I've heard about lately was the terrible weather. Granted, that's all been from Ohio people. The proclaimed 'Snowpoccalypse" shut down schools and universities with it's snowfall and freezing rain.

Tell me again why Pittsburgh sucks?

While all this weather-related nonsense was happening just one hundred miles west, we got rain. Then it got cold, but not before streets had a chance to dry out completely. It seems to be a trend just reinforcing my residency here.

Except for when this happened:

It was like "Where's Waldo" but a huge pain in the ass, and my car's name is Mr. T

But at least people were prepared and innovative:

It was also beautiful:

But that was an isolated incident, so I think I'll stick it out here.