Chandelier
I know it doesn’t fit with most of my other posts, but I thought I’d throw up a few shots from this year’s ECE Department Winter Party. This would be the event that caused me to reuse my memory card last Saturday and subsequently make it impossible to retrieve my lost images. Continue reading
Blast House
I had another adventure with friends last weekend, to probably the best site I’ve seen so far. We were there for 6 hours, I took ~400 photos and was excited to go home and sort through them for goodies. Unfortunately, I had to turn around and go out to a semi-formal party, and I wanted to bring my camera. So I dumped the photos onto my computer, and pulled the card to use again. When I went back the next day to process the photos, only 50 of the 400 were there. Son of a bitch. Continue reading
Kyle, battling with Jack Frost
You may have heard…there was a bit of a storm in the northeast this weekend. A lot of my friends took to calling it Snowpocalypse. Pittsburgh got hit with one of the 5 worst snow storms it has ever seen, other regions set new snow records. Regardless of the history books, this snow was epic. We woke up to the most compelling winter wonderland I’ve ever seen. To the right, you can see a shot of Kyle taking some of the first shovelfuls off our walkway, keep reading to see some more shots from the couple of blocks around my house.
Dave Zupkovich
There is a locomotive factory, nestled in a ravine, that was closed about a decade ago. This record was lying around, and begged to be set up for a shot, the album cover was in the next room. The rest of the facility, which was much smaller than many of our other sites, was fairly empty. A few nice equipment storage rooms, but the massive empty warehouse was quite a disappointment. Continue reading
Emergency Alarm
Another little gem. This former casting plant looks like the factory that builds other factories…or at least, the machinery that goes into them. We would have spent a long time exploring, but the weather was unbelievably bitter cold. We were expecting 25° F, and got 5° F…45 minutes was all we could handle.
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-aigulf Continue reading
I'm an engineer by trade, and a photographer by hobby. In the fall of 2007, I bought my first digital SLR, a Nikon D40x, and haven't looked back yet. The majority of my photographic expeditions involve abandoned structures in Western Pennsylvania, but I'm never without my camera while on the road or at a Pirates game, and I have been known to take the occasional photo of a plant.