Looking totally ‘Sus’
Tuesday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Ask anyone who knows me, your humble narrator always leans a bit paranoid. Part of it is that even as a child, old ladies would clutch their purses when I walked by. It’s all ‘vibe,’ I guess. If you saw me walking towards you the first thing you’d think is ‘wtf’? Accordingly, one is always quite aware of the fact that I’m being watched by suspicious eyes and acknowledgment of that fact is an admission of how ‘sus’ it must look when I stride or drive up somewhere and then whip out a camera with a huge telephoto lens. Ain’t normal. I’ve got rules, thereby, to govern my actions.
The shot above is an exception to one of these rules, and there are many rules, as it depicts a private home. The only reason it caught my interest is that it’s at the dead end of two streets, and its back yard fencing separates the property from a rail yard and the river.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
I prefer large and somewhat anonymous chunks of infrastructure as a subject, as in the case of the Birmingham Bridge over the Monongahela River – pictured above. Nobody is going to emerge from the bridge with a shot gun to keep me from cracking out a shot or two. Ok, maybe the cops, but they mainly use pistols and assault rifles these days.
After a bit of exploring in Hazelwood, I had driven across the river on a different bridge and was picking my way along the south side of the river in a generally homeward direction.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
For all of the posts you saw this last summer and spring that involved Pittsburgh’s ‘City Steps,’ that’s the landform which the steps that I’ve so far focused in on are set into. Won’t be chancing any journeys of that type for a while, as the broken ankle continues to heal.
As far as that drama goes: the Surgeon is happy with the X-Ray, the Physical Therapist is happy with my progress, and it looks like the whole “PT” experience will be wrapping up at the end of January – barring any mishaps. I’m able to walk again, although with a bit of a limp.
Saying all that – the car will be coming with me for photowalking duties, and for a while.
Back tomorrow with something different.
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Three very interesting photos.
dbarms8878
December 31, 2024 at 8:14 pm
Glad you’re on the mend! HNY to you & the little fam!
DeeAnne Gorman
December 31, 2024 at 10:47 pm