Another moving still picture: a barge heads downstream past the Armstrong Cork Factory toward the Sixteenth Street Bridge.
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Barge on the Allegheny
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Dusk on the Allegheny
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Skyline and Sixteenth Street Bridge
From the shore of the Allegheny. The immensity of the U. S. Steel Tower is particularly obvious from this angle.
Camera: Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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A March Thaw
The weather was warm enough to melt a good bit of the snow and ice, and prolonged rain helped fill the streams. Now the weather is turning briefly colder again, and we expect some snow tonight.
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Your Downtown Panorama of the Day
This time without falling snow. The one above, made from eighteen separate photographs, is quite large (about 37 million pixels), so don’t click on it on a metered connection. It’s the largest stitched picture old Pa Pitt has made to date, but Hugin handled it perfectly and automatically. The picture below is a more manageable size.
Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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A Winter Panorama
Another experiment in panorama stitching, this time from the Station Square parking lot.
Camera: Kodak EasyShare Z1485 IS.
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Ice in the Monongahela
Sub-zero temperatures have formed patches of ice in the Monongahela.
Camera: Kodak EasyShare Z1485 IS.
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Washington Crossing the Allegheny, 1753
From American Scenery, 1854 (almost exactly a century after the event depicted here). —Young Washington’s raft capsized on the way over, and he nearly drowned. He could have just used the Fortieth Street Bridge, but George had to do everything the hard way.
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Heinz Field and the Allegheny
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Rowboat
A homemade rowboat sits on a dock beside the Allegheny River in Verona.
