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Branch Against the Sky
This is actually a color photograph of a branch against a grey, rainy sky; but when old Pa Pitt tried the experiment of converting it to black and white, nothing changed at all. This is therefore a color photograph of a completely monochromatic scene.
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A Street on Mount Washington
Like many hilltop neighborhoods, Mount Washington is full of streets that appear as streets on maps but turn out to be stairways. They made driving perilous in the early days of GPS navigation, but most navigation systems have learned to distinguish the stairways by now. Mann Street is three blocks long, and two of the three are stairways like this.
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Waterfall, Mount Washington
This lovely waterfall plunges down the hill right beside Woodruff Street on Mount Washington. It’s nearly invisible until you’re almost right beside it, and many drivers probably never notice it.
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Saw Mill Run After a Winter Rain
Four minutes of rushing water in Saw Mill Run along the Seldom Seen Greenway. Since WordPress.com will not embed Wikimedia Commons videos, you can go to the Wikimedia Commons hosting page.
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Famous Biscuit Sign, Uptown
Ghost signs preserve history otherwise forgotten. Who remembers the Famous Biscuit company? In this case, the sign also preserves another bit of history that might escape the casual observer. It faces east on Forbes Avenue, thus serving as a memorial of a time when Forbes Avenue Uptown was a two-way street.
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The Back of Fifth Avenue High School
The space across the alley from the rear of Fifth Avenue High School, Uptown, is now a parking lot, and on New Year’s Day it was a deserted parking lot. Thus, with a wide-angle lens, old Pa Pitt could get this picture of (almost) the entire rear of the school, which was designed by Edward Stotz. It sat abandoned for three decades, but now, like every other large building in the city, it has been turned into loft apartments.
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The Train Shed—Pittsburgh
An art photograph by W. W. Zieg from Pictorial Photography in America, 1922. This was the train shed of the Union or Pennsylvania Station, back when it had a huge and magnificent train shed.
