Tag Archive for 'Hartford'
Baby slept in late yesterday which afforded me the leisure of taking some photos of her sleeping, or Peri being watchful, and a nice slow walk to work. Outside of that bliss was a fire that was raging at the midpoint of my commute.
In the darkest part of that smoke is a multi-family house.
This is the house where most of the third story was gutted from the blaze. After seeing this I couldn’t wait to get home to my family.
Scorcher of a day Tuesday with terrible lighting and most of my shots being worthless either because they were washed out or just a crap composition that no amount of cropping would save. Then again, shooting in the middle of the day doesn’t make for the best lighting. Win some, lose some.
Lunchtime saw a brief sojourn through some new streets which yielded a shot of three buildings I’ve photographed before but at new angles and one of my favorite flower photos to date. The weather was beautiful, clear and bright, which made it optimal conditions to try out my new polarizing filter. I’m very pleased with the results.
The top picture, while not having a stellar composition, really pops and the spray painted sign tickles my juvenile side (on Flickr it is titled “Middle School”). The second is of that church I am so found of but this time looking uptown at it against the Fox 61 building, otherwise known as “Stilts”. The rose was found thriving above the I-84 underpass among dead grass and concrete. I love the effect that the filter gave the background, dark and impressionistic.
Security cameras fascinate me in that they so aptly represent the unflinching, uncaring, and unreasoning bureaucratic systems and people who have bought into the notion of surveillance as security. While they pique a sort of curiosity in me they also tend to make me sad and a little anxious at the same time.
The last two shots are of the roof to the new science center being erected near the river. The roof is this weighty object the ponderously hangs in the sky with its only support being a series of spindly legs.
Pete and I walked over the bridge into East Hartford to meet Management for a Peruvian lunch. Incredible ceviche at Piolyn Jr., incredible. Definitely going to make that a regular stop.
