Todays photo was inspired by the need for a cup of coffee. In my areas we have many choices of small convince stores and such, but the main one is Sheetz. Sheets has some 400 stores in 6 states and is one of those one stop shops. Coffee, drinks, sandwiches, pizza, gas, etc… And they seem to be everywhere. So today I thought I would photograph one at night.
So today was a complete wash as far as getting out to do any photography. Worked all day and it was raining this morning when I went to work. So I’m posting a shot that I took a while back during a photo club outing in Pittsburgh.
One of the reasons I like to shoot in the streets is because everything changes so quickly, you typically don’t have time to set up your shot. Most of the time you might get one or two frames and the subject has moved on. That was the case with this photo. I took one shot and the girl had to go back into the shop she was working at.
Todays photo is a shot of an air freshener in a friend’s car. I took this a couple of nights ago and it got me thinking of what makes me happy. I’m sure that if we took a poll we would see many different responses to the question what make you happy? I believe that true happiness lies within everyone and it is our job to find what it is and then follow the advice in the photo below.
What makes you happy?
So todays photo is a city shot from a different perspective. We often shoot at eye level and sometimes just a change in elevation will give a whole new look to a photograph. So for this one I went about 3 stories up in a parking garage and shot down the street.
Smithfield Street and Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Well since the story of the week in this part of the world is the weather, I’ll stick with a shot of a couple of girls walking down the street in the cold. Temp 3°F windchill -35°F.
So today was supposed to be my day off. Which was a good thing as the high today was only about 6° F. But as luck would have it my store had a heating malfunction causing us to close early for the day. Still a god thing right? Nope not at all, at least not for me. I was called in to open the doors so that the building engineer could examine the problem. So much for my day off. And by the way, they haven’t fixed the heating problem yet.
I had planned to get out to a local waterfall and see if had frozen completely over but that didn’t happen so today you get another cold picture from the city of Pittsburgh. This photo was taken this evening a little after 5pm and the temp was sharply sitting at 3° with a wind chill of around -30°. Nice day for a walk in the city. This lady didn’t seem to be enjoying her walk.
So the big store in the area today is the cold front moving through which has caused sever drops in temperature. Tonight’s photo is just a simple one of the temperature at 10:00 pm. It’s hard to believe that last night I was out in a t-shirt and tonight well lets just say its a little chilly…
Todays photo is something I saw while walking to my car last night after work. We walk by things ilk this all the time and for the most part don’t even notice that they are there. But the message on this item got me thinking about what makes a person happy. There can be any number of things that bring happiness to you. It could be a simple conversation with a friend, a walk in the park, or a good book. For some it could be a cup of coffee.
I hope that all of you have JOY in your life!
A photo from a recent trip to see Christmas lights with the camera club that I belong to. Kinda makes you wish we still had these stores in every town.
So todays photo was inspired by the fact that I almost ran out of time yesterday. I planned my evening carefully so that I would have plenty of time to get my day 2 post out and the bad weather through all those plans right out the window. Sometimes no matter how carefully we plan our day we just seem to run out of time.
This is the historic Kaufmann’s Clock in Pittsburgh, Pa.
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