After showing off my website to my new coworkers, a few of them expressed a real interest in photography and a thirst to learn a few new things about getting good images. Well, I couldn’t help but suggest outings before it got too hot… and so for the last two weekends we’ve ventured out and about Phoenix to shoot landscapes, etc.
We decided to shoot light trails – long exposure of vehicle headlights and/or tail lights – somewhere with with a walkway or footbridge that wasn’t fenced in.
Yesterday, we chose the CityScape walkway over Central Avenue in downtown Phoenix.
We arrived slightly before sunset, but the bridge was situated where we could only capture pretty golden reflections off the buildings.
Long exposure light trails at sunset, as seen from CityScape walkway in Phoenix, Arizona
Twilight was also beautiful.
Long exposure at twilight, light rail train pulling to station as seen from CityScape walkway in Phoenix, Arizona
Unfortunately, traffic on a Saturday night, was unforgivably sparse.
Light trails of headlights, streetlights from the CityScape walkway in Phoenix, Arizona
Our disappointment mounted as we stood on the walkway for 3 hours to no avail.
Eventually, we went street level and captured some closeups of the light rail train as it slowly turned right on the corner of Central and Washington.
From station, long exposure nightshot of light rail train pulling to station in Phoenix, Arizona
I don’t think I’ve ever been in a major city with such a lack of weekend traffic. I hope it picks up when both the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball and Phoenix Suns basketball stadiums – practically next door to each other – have home games. Otherwise, we’ll be forced to find boring highways with possibly no skyscrapers as background.
Maybe they are willing to come to Washington, DC?! :-))
LOL, Gary! Well, maybe… ;~P