Once again the season has arrived to decorate the corner of the old Horne’s department store. Though the store is long gone, the current owners of the building keep up the ancient tradition.
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Horne’s Christmas Tree in Afternoon Sun
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The Skyline at Sunset
Above, a fairly large panorama made from five individual pictures. Below, a “high-dynamic-range” picture made from three separate exposures.
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Chatham Center
This picture from five years ago (but old Pa Pitt just dug it out of his archive, where it lay forgotten) shows the unobstructed view of Chatham Center from the Middle Hill. Chatham One is the building with the name at the top; the square tower to the left of it is Two Chatham Center.
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Glimpses of the Skyline
The skyline of downtown glimpsed from the northwest through fall foliage.
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Tower at PNC Plaza on a Fine Day
As seen from the Diamond or Market Square, the surface of the tower reflects the cumulus clouds scudding through the sky.
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The View from Mount Washington, in Two Colors
The skyline on a perfect day, rendered in old-postcard colors.
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The View from Mount Washington, in Black and White
It was a perfect day for skyline pictures, with puffy white clouds filling the sky. This is how it looked in black and white.
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United Steelworkers Building
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Letterbox
A brass letterbox, meticulously polished, in the lobby of the Frick Building. Many buildings downtown have letterboxes like these, with mail chutes coming down from the upper floors.
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Fortune and Her Wheel
This window by the celebrated stained-glass master John La Farge looks out over the lobby of the Frick Building. The metaphor of Fortune’s wheel is an odd one for a self-made gazillionaire to choose: Henry Frick was not known for his modesty, and yet the message seems to be that he was just lucky rather than clever.
