Progress – Photo 52 Project [Week 43]

Memorial Hospital is adding a huge addition and Mari Ann said I might be able to get a good shot. As you can see, a lot of my photos are at night. That must have something to do with my proclivity towards procrastination. Really, I have always enjoyed the beauty that only nighttime can show. Other than star photography, most of what you can photograph is man made. We can only see what we are meant to see, or what we have chosen to make visible. Everything else is covered in the shadows.

I can’t help but think about the view from a plane at night. Everything appears so orderly, and so peaceful. Most of the Midwest is dark, peppered with concentrations of amber luminance. There are cars slowly moving around inside towns, like they are being drawn via Etch-a-Sketch.

The Memorial Medical Center Expansion Project will add new rooms, ORs, and other features to the hospital while also managing to piss of my girlfriend while she struggles even more to find a parking place. The thing I find most interesting is their initiative to move to all private rooms. When you are sick, that last thing you need is to have a shitty roommate to make things even worse.

Red Door – Photo 52 Project [Week 2]

This week I decided to go for a trek in downtown Springfield, IL on Saturday afternoon. We were due for a cold front later in the day so I figured I had better get to it! I originally intended to get my passport then stop by the Hilton, Springfield’s only skyscraper, to go to the 30th floor to get my ears to pop. My right ear has been ringing for about a week now and it is starting to get to me and I thought maybe it just needed to pop. I went up and it helped until I came back down. Oh well, I had some camera gear with me so I decided to get some images.

At first I took a few perspective shots of the Hilton with bracketing for HDR. I didn’t have a tripod so the HDR didn’t come out. I was hoping that maybe the software would correct for no tripod but not what I was using. I got a decent single capture though and was pretty happy with that.

Being a relatively nice January day in the 50s or so I decided to venture out a bit farther. Just down the street I was waiting for a WALK signal and noticed a peculiar door on a Church. It was round, bright red, and beautiful. I zoomed in from across the street, dead center.

I later looked up the location and found that this door belongs to the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield. The door seems to be a focal point of the church as it is even incorporated into their website logo. I would like to see and photograph the inside some day as they apparently have some beautiful Tiffany glass.