Overlook! Now, more than ever!
Tuesday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
As described yesterday, I was kicking dirt at the West End Elliot Overlook park while waiting for Our Lady of the Pentacle to return home from a trip abroad. Passing time until the summons to pick her up at the airport, one set up the camera and the tripod, and I was soon perpetrating some low light photography – something which hasn’t been practiced in a while.
I still had my ‘daylight Zoom lens’ on the camera, even though conditions didn’t favor it. A bit of motion blur began to manifest, but there you are.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
There was plenty of stuff to keep me busy while Our Lady was traveling. Primarily, care and attention for Moe the Dog, but I was also developing a few hundred photos and doing several other digital tasks in the home office which I have set up in the basement of HQ. Beyond that, the necessities of life were obliged – the cooking and cleaning, life stuff.
This evening was my first release from the domestic and canine maintenance schedule in about a week, and it felt great to be outside shooting. It was made sweeter by the imminent return of Our Lady to Pittsburgh.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Eventually, I switched out the daylight zoom lens for a lowlight 85mm f2 prime, a device which is a much more apt tool for the job.
The wider aperture also allows for faster shutter speeds, which eliminates most of the motion blur.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
I’m planning out a winter time project which will all be ‘night stuff,’ as it’s a lot easier to pull off during the winter months due to the intransigence of the burning thermonuclear eye of God itself’s presence in the celestial vault during the winter season. Doesn’t get light out until relatively late in the mornings, and it’s getting dark by 5-6 p.m. Add in some rain, and you’ve got noir dripping all over the joint.
On it.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
My time here was growing short, and it wouldn’t be long before the text arrived from Our Lady that her plane had landed. It would be about a twenty or so minute drive to get to the airport, and then an indeterminate period defined by however long it took her to get through customs. Luckily, this ain’t JFK, so she was out toot sweet.
There are just so many things which I don’t miss about NYC.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The last shot gathered was of a vessel in the Gateway Clipper’s tourist boat fleet, which features a massive catering hall – built onto a barge – that’s permanently attached to an old tugboat.
The text message finally chimed in, and then I hurtled through the darkness to the airport to retrieve Our Lady. Moe the Dog was absolutely apoplectic when his favorite person returned home. Me too.
Back tomorrow with something different – at this – your Newtown Pentacle.
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