How to make the most of a quick turnaround work trip to Des Moines? Take a couple hours after the work day and Photowalk the area! Good exercise, saw stuff I never would have seen otherwise and even got a few pictures I like.
For example, I dig the shot of the Church at the right. The tilted perspective was intentional. I like it.
Check the walking bridge below over the Des Moines river. I really dig this one. Could have spent a ton more time photographing this, but there was a special event going on and a video crew was setting up.
By the way – let me mention that all of these come from my backup camera, an XTI. No reason a five year old camera can’t produce good images. The smaller form factor was great for traveling.
Check out this image from another church. Look how dark that sky is. I should be less lazy about using the polarizing filter. It makes a difference.
A fire plug. I could probably enhance the bricks a little in Photoshop, but I like it well enough unaltered.
This was an interesting building standing beside an ice rink by the river. Gives me a little bit of the feel of an airplane. Or a space habitat. Yeah, that’s it – a space habitat!
I was really liking the polarizer today.
Saw this sign by a bus stop. Shouldn’t the lower-left just say “don’t jaywalk.” Shouldn’t “don’t jaywalk in front of bus” be super-obvious?
Finally, I found this great building in reflection. What a good image to end the walk with!
