It's never the picture you expect it to
be.
As you may recall, I spent part of the
very warm and very sunny Sunday afternoon a few days ago walking
around and taking pictures. I posted a few of them in here, and
stuck other ones up on the “You Know You're From Marquette If...”
Facebook group. I finally had a chance to go back in there and see
what people said, and you know what?
The picture with the most reactions was
not the one I would've expected.
It wasn't a picture of melting snow or
a melting harbor or two people melting into each others arms as they
walked down the street. Nope...it was this one--
One of the reasons I went out to take
pictures (aside from, as I noted jokingly in Monday's entry, to work
on my tan) was that with the snow (mostly) gone and the leaves not
yet popped out, you get to see things slightly differently than you
do when it's summer. The sun's at a different angle; trees aren't
blocking your view. So when I was climbing around a snowbank at the
Marquette County Courthouse and saw the two iconic Marquette
buildings line up just so, I took the shot.
Apparently, I wasn't the only one who
liked it.
With the two buildings quite readily
apparently, I had written a caption that mentioned the staggering
amount of history that you can get in one shot. Of course, it wasn't
until studying it even further that I noticed the old train station
photo-bombing the picture, as well as the corner of the First
National Bank/Wells Fargo/Flagstar building, as well. I often tell
people that it's almost impossible to take a bad picture in downtown
Marquette, if only because you never know what might pop up in it.
And unlike something things I might
utter, it's not that hyperbolic. It's actually really, really true!
In the interest of full disclosure, the
picture I thought would have gotten the most reactions from the
Facebook group? You remember this one from Monday, right?
Goes to show what I know, I guess.
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