Pittsburgh, PA ~ (embiggenable) • iPhone
Bradford, PA. ~ (embiggenable) • iPhone
Pittsburgh, PA. ~ (embiggenable) • iPhone
Pittsburgh, PA. ~ (embiggenable) • iPhone
Pittsburgh, PA. ~ (embiggenable) • iPhone
EAST CARSON STREET, ON PITTSBURGH'S SOUTHSIDE, is one of the largest Victorian main streets in the United States. Its entire length-about 1 mile long, straight as an arrow, flat as a pancake-is designated as a historic district.
Over the years, the district, know as "The Flats", has become a "hip"/"happening" kinda place. Lots of bars, funky shops, restaurants and lots of young residents. During every of our visits to Pittsburgh, I (with or without the wife) always head to East Carson Street to go to one of the best ever funky cigar stores. Not to mention that it probably has multiple thousands of cigars in its massive walk-in humidor area. FYI, I find it difficult to leave the store without dropping $300.00+US on some product.
That written, this post is not about cigars. Rather, it is about-instigated by a recent post on TOP-polarizing filters and building facades.
Back in the analoge era, also known as the film era, I had a polarizing filter in my kit. Actually, I had 3 of them, 3 different diameters for a variety of different lenses. They were in my kit for a single purpose...for client demand use, That is, when shooting for a client wherein reflections were a problem that got in the way of their product. They were never used for personal work cuz of the fact that reflections are part of the real world. Case on point, the building facade pictures in this entry....
....while my eye and sensibilities were pricked by the facades themselve, the reflections of the sky and clouds on the facades-and the window display-were icing on the cake for me. Or, in, a modified version of a famous saying, "I don't need no stinkin' polarizing filter".