Archive for April 3rd, 2025
Behind the curve, again
Thursday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Yeah, I’m a bit behind schedule this morning and thereby a few ‘odds and ends’ photos which didn’t make it into other posts greets you. There’s hundreds of fresh shots sitting on my computer’s hard drive right now, which I just could not find the time to get edited and uploaded in time for today’s post. Mea culpa, yo.
Pictured above is the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh, with a T light rail unit moving across the Panhandle Bridge in late afternoon.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Sometimes you just get to a spot and you realize that you’re a minute too late. The one above is from Homestead, where I was maneuvering myself to get some train shooting done, and then discovered that I had missed one of the crossings. I’ve observed that the folks who control these rails tend to ‘bunch them together’ when the signal arms are down at busy daytime grade crossings. That means a sometimes 15-20 minute wait while two or three trains pass through the junctures. Missed them all.
Personally, I usually put the car into ‘Park’ and grab the camera so I can shoot out the moon roof in such circumstance, which is what I did for the shot above while I was waiting.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
There’s a development project underway in Pittsburgh’s South Side Flats area, one which recently saw the eradication of an entire city block’s worth of buildings. The effort left behind a fenced off field covered in what looks like hay. I shot through the fence, figuring that this is the first time in a hundred years that this point of view was available.
Back tomorrow with some fresh stuff, I’m hoping.
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