after the storm

last night the remnants of hurricane ike hit our region. fortunately our house was spared any damage (just an odd flower pot or two in the front yard), but it looks like my brother's house has some large branches if not a whole tree on it this morning judging by the text message he sent to peter. hopefully there's no damage to his house.

the three of us (peter, erik, and i) were out on a mission to get my robot graffiti photo (see post below) yesterday afternoon, and by the time we stopped for dinner in oakland, the wind was really picking up. it was one of those really weird, hot gusty breezes. we actually saw someone flying a kite in schenley park. i wonder how much success he had! when we were finished eating, the sun was beginning to set and the sky had a surreal pink/orange glow to it. luckily i had my camera with me and snapped this picture from the parking lot:



the sky was far too interesting to pass up a chance to get some photos of the sunset with downtown pittsburgh in the background, so we went down to the hot metal bridge and i took some more pictures. you can see these little fluffy clouds in some of them. they were flying across the sky at an amazing pace. it was really cool to see.





this one i took with a longer exposure (1.6s). i like the way the colors came out. it captured the oddness of the evening a little bit:



(click on any of the pictures to see a larger size)