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Barges regularly transport coal from West Virginia along the rivers to distribution points where trucks and trains haul it across the country. One barge can move about the same amount of freight as a train three miles long, or a line of semi trucks 35 miles long. In this photo, a barge passes through Pittsburgh on the Allegheny River.135
~Mark Strand
A close up of the fountains, the water looked so cool! Take a look large if you get a chance!
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Four “Lehigh” Alcos, two Lehigh & Hudson River C420's sandwiching two Lehigh Valley RS11’s, accelerate eastward in the Steel City section of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. This location is known locally as “Wilt’s Curve,” after local photographer Bob Wilt and his father Harry, who lived nearby and kept the foliage here trimmed.
~Henry David Thoreau
This fountain is right outside of Amigo's, and everytime I thought that the coast was clear to get some shots of it, people kept walking by!!!
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~Robert Green
A view of Pittsburgh through the railing on the Hot Metal Street Bridge in the South Side.
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~Albert Einstein
Another one from my walk the other day. This is the same street as my earlier post, just from another angle!
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I want to thank everyone as well, yesterday was a record day for me, over 4,800 views!!! Thank you all so much for your continued support!
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~Earl Nightingale
A shot of Heinz Field during the Rib Fest, right before the concert started!
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Pittsburgh was founded on November 27, 1758. The city was named by General John Forbes, in honor of British statesman William Pitt, the 1st Earl of Chatham. Early on, Pittsburgh played an important role in our country’s history. In the early 1800s, the city became known as the “Gateway to the West.” This nickname referenced the huge advantage Pittsburgh had by having the intersection of three major waterways. The Allegheny River and Monongahela River join together at what is known as the “point” to form the Ohio River. This intersection opened the gates for Pittsburgh to lead the way in the trade industry for products such as coal, timber, glass, natural gas, iron and limestone. By 1911, Pittsburgh manufactured half of the nation’s steel. Due to the amount of pollution given off by the steel factories the city had a new nickname - “The Smoky City."
Throughout the years, Pittsburgh has made multiple changes and overcome many obstacles. The city has moved from the steel industry to become a leader in healthcare, education, technology, and financial services. What were once heavily polluted streets and riverfronts, have been transformed to create the modern vibrant Pittsburgh one sees today.
~Iara Gassen
The second to last of my fall series, I will be poseting the last one tomorrow!
Although my Cowboys lost tonight, my most hated team (the Steelers) also lost, so that makes the loss not quite as bad!
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~Frederick the Great
Another random one that got lost among the many in my walk through down a few months ago!
And the Pens won again tonight! Woo hoo!!!!!!
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Urban Angel - Encounter 1
Location: Vixen's Creative Studios
Photographer & Model: Michaela Vixen (VampBait69)
Set Design & Creation: Michaela Vixen (VampBait69)
Sunday morning pre-sunrise photo composed of 14-images from the North Shore of Pittsburgh, PA.
Inspired by local Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Panoramic Photographer James Watt
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Viewing an absurdly hot sunset a few weeks ago from Schenley Park. Although disappointing in color, this is a very nice view of the city in the evening.
~Nelson Henderson
And this is the last of the fall series my friends. I thank you for all of your kind comments on my recent uploads; I realize that some of them were similar, however there is only a few weeks in the year to capture these colors, and I wanted to take full advantage!
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This picture was taken a few weeks ago from my weekend in the Steel City. I find Pittsburgh is great for HDR. Thank your for checking out my picture. I hope you like it Please let me know what you think and view in Lightbox for the best effect.
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Pittsburgh was once known as the Iron City which became Steel CIty but also City of Bridges, River City, etc. And of course Iron City is also the Pittsburgh Brewing Company but took over Rolling Rock and moved to Latrobe so they are not technically even in The Burgh. Just havin fun.
~Francis Goya
The was taken from the same spont on the 10th Street Bridge, just turned the tripod towards the city. I thought I may step up the processing a bit for this one, not any real reason, just kinda liked the path I was going down with it!
That is Mt. Washington on the upper left, where most of my night shots of Pittsburgh cityscapes are taken. I stopped up there later during the day I took these shots, so you'll see them soon!
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~Thomas Jefferson
We are all ever so grateful to all those men and women who have stayed vigilant for us, both past, present and future. You have our eternal gratitude!
I took a shot similar to this one in the summer, which is post below. My processing has changed a bit since then! I may have to try a winter one as well!
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Pittsburgh from above. I didn't get a chance to shoot much in Pittsburgh this weekend, but did get up on a hill with my family just after sunset.
~Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes"
For this shot I literally turned by tripod about 45 degress from my last one of the Bigelow Grille. This is the BNY Mellon building, which isn't all that big of a Pittsburgh landmark, however it does look great at the "blue hour" in HDR!
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Location: Vixen's Creative Studios
Set: Vixen's Urban Jungle
Photographer: Michaela Vixen (VampBait69)
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This steel footbridge in Sheffield, England, carries pedestrians from Park Square to Ponds Forge International Sports Centre - a modern development on the site of a former steelworks. Sheffield – aka "Steel City" – was once the steel-making capital of the world and has a rich history of technological development and expertise.
Sheffield's steel production began around the 14th century and was very small scale at first, with self-employed craftsmen making cutlery, tools and other smaller items from start to finish. By the 18th century, demand was growing fast and production needed to change to keep up. With the invention of the crucible steel process in 1742 by local manufacturer Benjamin Huntsman, production was revolutionised and Sheffield went from small township to leading European industrial city. In the 100 years that followed, its annual steel production rose from 200 tonnes to 80,000 tonnes; almost half Europe's total production.
In 1856, Henry Bessemer's converter furnace took things further, enabling mass production of cheap refined steel for railway parts, armour plating and construction. The "Bessemer boom" sent Sheffield steel global. In 1871, America was importing over three times as much rail track from Sheffield as it made domestically.
Sheffield-based chemist Harry Brearley invented stainless steel in 1912. In 1924, Dr W. H. Hatfield, from the same laboratory, created "18/8" – probably today's most commonly used stainless steel.
During both World Wars, Sheffield played a central role in arming the military, its strategic importance making it a bombing target. With men away fighting, women took over the city's steelworks, including munition production – something commemorated by Sheffield's "Women of Steel" statue, unveiled in 2016.
During the 1970s, market downturn caused several Sheffield steelworks to close. The Thatcher years had a devastating impact, with further recession, warring between government and unions, and ultimately British Steel's second and final privatisation. Sheffield lost more than 50,000 steel and engineering jobs between 1980 and 1983. The industry suffered further since the 2008 crash owing to lower demand, rising energy prices, a strong pound and China's alleged "steel dumping". Amid a flurry of high profile plant closures, Forgemasters, currently Sheffield's biggest steel employer, announced 100 redundancies from its 630-strong workforce in 2016.
These days, Sheffield's steel industry (employing around 2,600 in 2016) focuses largely on specialist trade. Despite the loss of much of the heavy engineering and large scale production, in 2005, the industry produced more steel per year by value than at any other time in its history. International buyers – particularly from the US – are still drawn to the quality and heritage of tools and cutlery made from Sheffield steel.
~William James
So looking back on the processing that I've done on the pictures that I've posted as well as the ones I have yet to post from my city walk series, I realize I've done them a bit differently and I'm not quite sure why! Maybe I twas trying to mirror the gloomy day that I was shooting in. Just an observation! Let me know what you guys think!
This is a shot of PNC Plaza. They are doing major construction here now, and I left the light in there to give the picture some depth.
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~J.R.R. Tolkien
Another shot of Heinz Field during Rib Fest, from a little father along on the bridge. You can see the smoke coming up from all the barbeques in the middle of the picture.
Worth a look large if you have a minute!
Thanks, as always, for all of your visits and comments, I really appreciate them!
~John F Kennedy
Hope that everyone in the States enjoyed your Thanksgiving! And hope that everyone outside of the States had a great day as well!
This was taken right by my car on Sarah St. in the South Side. The shadow on the right is my car! Not a particularly interesting shot, but I thought it looked cool!
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