I can't decide if it looks like a
doorstop or a piece of cake.
Some days it seems, at least to me,
that I've taken every picture there is to be taken in Marquette.
I'll walk around with my camera yet take few pictures because I've
already taken the exact same shot of the exact same thing several
times before. So when I come across some weird lighting or a new
angle of a building I've shot many times before, I smile a little
smile and make sure I get the shot. That happened over the weekend,
when I was practicing for our upcoming trip to Germany and took this
picture of the Savings Bank Building.
I've shot this particular building
before, but never from this particular angle. And I don't think I've
ever been able to get the whole building into one shot. But thanks
to the upper level of the Range Bank parking deck, my freakishly long
arms, a wide-angle lens, and a willingness to lean over a railing
forty feet above the ground, I have the shot.
And I think it looks...different.
For some reason, to me, at least, the
building in this shot looks even narrower than it does in person. I
mean, you can stand behind it in real life and see how it tapers to
the narrow back end, but for some reason this picture really makes it
stand out in a way I've never noticed before. When I first saw it
the first thought that popped into my head was “kitchen scraper”,
those narrow things you use to clean dough off of a counter-top. But
after looking at it a little more, I've come to the conclusion it
resembles either a doorstop or the last piece of cake left after an
all-night birthday party.
Now if the owners would only let me put
over-sized candles on the roof. THEN think of the shot I could get!
8-)
One of the many things I love about
Marquette is the fact that you can wander around, even after however
many years I've been doing this, and see things you never noticed.
This is a great example. I see the Savings Bank Building every
single day of my life. I thought I had looked at it from every
conceivable angle, and in every conceivable light. But I was wrong,
and it wasn't the first time. No matter where you go or what you
look at, you might notice something you've never noticed before.
Even if you do think it looks like a
piece of giant leftover birthday cake.
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