POTD - City Scapes

St Louis' City Museum is a photographer's dream or nightmare. So many cool textures, structures, artwork, tilework, sculptures and more to photograph. Here are just a small sampling of what I found interesting. I think I have another 2 dozen highly varied photos to sort through yet. If you ever get to St Louis, make sure to visit and bring your camera.

A whole wall of glass bottles adorned the entrance to the Vintage Clothing shop.


Using scrap or salvaged rebar, someone told the welder / artist to "create whatever you want".


Kids climb the metal structure to get to the slide.


Spools of thread that feed the shoelace machine. They design and sell all sorts of flat woven shoe laces, wrist bands, etc on the spot.


Hundreds of these painted ceramic balusters adorn the staircases and covers one of the slides. They spin, too.


In the dark recesses of the back part of the warehouse - staircases that lead you to the 7th floor spiral slide.


Hopefully I'll get to post more pictures over the next several days.

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POTD - Hungry?

Probably not, but best not to find out. This Amur Tiger will turn 12 months old in April. Yeah, she's only 11 months old now. How scary is that?




She and her 4 siblings reside at the St. Louis Zoo, in a huge, open air enclosure with several vantage points. I used my 300mm lens to capture her licking her chops after some playful exchanges with one of her siblings. Even these huge creatures are cute when they play together.

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POTD - Determination [Emotion]

Brian had just maneuvered himself through the body of a gutted airplane. If he had trouble, think about how I felt. Squished, for sure. And I had on these boots with 2" heels. Not the ideal shoes to be climbing in.

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POTD - Monstrocity [Safety/Risk]

A small portion of the outdoor climbing structure at the City Museum in St. Louis. Nothing like a bunch of mangled metal to make you feel safe as you climb upwards to the gutted plane, 7 stories high.

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Broken Window

Because of the extreme cold weather in January, one of our double paned windows cracked. We covered it up with cardboard to prevent more breakage and keep little hands / feet from getting cut. Scott uncovered it today and took it to a local glass shop to have it measured for repair. A perfect opportunity for Two Peas theme of Safety / Risk.



This is my first picture using a texture! It was super simple. I followed one of CoffeeShop Rita's great tutorials.

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Photo of the Day Themes

weekly themes

JANUARY
1/5 Start… Ready, Set, Go
1/12 Use of texture
1/19 Technology
1/ 26 Hobbies

FEBRUARY
2/2 Home sweet Home
2/9 Love
2/16 heart of the….(city, house, etc.,)
2/23 Before and after (SOOC vs PPing)

MARCH
3/2 A few of my favorite things
3/9 Macros
3/16 Safety/ Risk
3/23 Emotions
3/30 Ways to save

APRIL
4/6 Oh Baby
4/13 Motion
4/20 Earth, Wind (or sky), and Fire
4/27 Architectural Details

MAY
5/4 Girly
5/11 Flowers
5/18 Around Town …as seen by a tourist
5/25 Animals

JUNE
6/1 Opposites attract
6/8 Backlighting or sunbursts/sun flare
6/15 All Boy
6/22 Dreams/pretend/Play
6/29 Patriotic

JULY
7/6 Faces in strange places
7/13 Water
7/20 Public Art
7/27 What is it? Extreme close-ups

AUGUST
8/3 Landscapes
8/10 Hands, feet. fingers and toes.
8/17 ABC or 123
8/24 Shapes
8/31 Perspective

SEPTEMBER
9/7 There is Beauty All Around
9/14 People, places and /or things
9/21 secret hideouts
9/28 contrast

OCTOBER
10/5 Play that Funky music White boy
10/12 Reflections
10/19 Aperture differences (Depth of field)
10/26 Black & White

NOVEMBER
11/2 Heroes/Tributes
11/9 Research
11/16 Noise
11/23 Silver
11/30 Traditions

DECEMBER
12/7 Bling
12/14 Dangling
12/21 Cold or Christmas
12/28 Finish : A year in review

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