Fort Frick Photography

My goodbye to Polar World at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. I do feel like it's time is long past, but given that igloo is a core memory, and really nothing new is ever better these days, I'm fearful what it will be replaced with.

Heinz Chapel

I've really been into using my Fuji x100vi recently (a digital camera), and decided to try using 35mm film for the first time in 30 years. I didn't know if the cameras, or light meters, worked as I just got my first 2 rolls back and really liked this one for a first attempt in years.

I was happy with the vast majority of them (perhaps an overstatement, but pleased with my ratio) even though they were largely just test rolls to make sure the camera functioned. One thing that is going to take some getting used to is portraits, as I'm not quite fast enough to read the meter, manually focus, and compose while my small kids are heckling me to get the photo over with.

Primantis in the Strip District

Old meets new. The Bellefield Tower in black and white.

St. Gregory's Russian Orthodox Church in Homestead. While I'm Catholic, I enjoy the domes and iconography of Orthodox Churches.

Continuing with my University of Pittsburgh photo theme today, here are some interiors of the Cathedral of Learning. Nothing ever changes in there, but the commons room is one of the most architecturally interesting interiors in the city and I always try to update some of my photos when the students leave campus.

A small collection of black and whites from Pitt's campus. All photographed in camera black and white, as I really enjoy taking black and white photos that way as it keeps post processing to absolute minimum.

The radar tower for the old Nike Missile Command Center in Oakdale.

Built in the the 1950's the command center controlled approximately one dozen surface to air missile sites to protect the Pittsburgh region from a Soviet bomber attacks. Pittsburgh had a disproportionate number of Nike missile sites for a city of its size, given its importance in steel making and raw materials at the time. The Nike program was decommissioned in the 1970's when Soviet ICBM's rendered the program increasingly obsolete. The radar tower is still in use by the FAA.

I tried to give the photo a somewhat retro edit.

Edgar Thomson

I posted an image from this particular day from my 110 film camera, but here is a digital one that has the Union hauling some slabs in it.

Yesterday's announcement about Nippon increasing their investment in the Mon Valley Works was certainly good news for the future of these plants.

Primanti's in the Strip District double exposure with