This is one of my favorite sights in Phoenix. Located on north side of Indian School Road just east of 56th Street, Arizona Falls is a manmade waterfall that channels the water of the Crosscut Canal through a hydroelectric power generator. It is a part of the Salt River Project (SRP). I have taken many photos of it by day, but this photo is one of the first photos I’ve ever taken of it at night.
Category: Photography
Posts with photos, about photos, and about photography itself
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Red Neon at Super Target
An interesting element at the new Super Target in Christown Spectrum Mall
By the way, I was very kindly and gently asked by a lady security guard about what I was taking photos for, and I said, “I’m celebrating the opening of Super Target! 🙂 I live in the community, I love art and architecture, and I’m taking photos to commemorate.” She was actually watching politely while I took this photo. I assured her I would not take my camera into the store. We chit-chatted briefly, and she went away while I walked my camera back to the car. It was no problem.
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Outstretched
I saw this beautiful bare tree stretched out against a sky whose clouds were similarly stretched out. It’s not exactly the iconic view of Tonto Natural Bridge, but it’s my favorite image from the visit.
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Photogenic
I thought so! I love text forms, three-dimensional forms, and shadows. But right after I took this photo of a photography studio sign at Christown Spectrum Mall, a young woman security guard asked me to stop taking photos. I asked her if she were sure that no photography was allowed. She radioed her boss, and he said it was a mall policy: no photography without permission from mall management. She offered me the mall management phone number and I called it. They were closed for the weekend, but I left a message stating that I was just taking photos for my own artistic pleasure and that I believed it was my right to take photos in public places where there was no reasonable expectation of privacy, and besides, I wasn’t taking photos of people, just of the architecture. I left my number, so we’ll see what they say. Interestingly, this is the same mall in which one young woman asked me outside the brand-new Harkins Theatres if I were “newspaper.” I wonder why people are so finicky about photos being taken at this mall.
UPDATE: I just got a call back from the management office, and (more…)
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Grand Opening of Harkins Christown 14
I read on the Harkins Theatres web site that they would be holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the grand opening of the Christown 14 theatres at 11:15 this morning. I got there just a couple of minutes late, but they had done the ceremony at around 10 because people had been lining up around the building and waiting since 6.
I had an interesting experience as I ran up to the theatre from my car with my camera: a young woman walked by and quickly asked, “Newspaper?” I said, “No,” and she said, “Just for your own enjoyment, then,” and walked to her car. She was wearing a backpack, and it made me wonder whether she were a journalist, and why she wanted to know. I just wanted to get a photo, and didn’t want to take the time to explain that I was a blogger of sorts, and although I wasn’t exactly “Newspaper,” I wasn’t just doing this for my own enjoyment, either. I saw this as an opportunity to take my new lens and battery grip out for a shoot and gain some “event photography” experience in the meantime.
Anyway, I get excited about urban renewal, cinema, theater, and architecture, so I enjoyed getting there and taking this photo even if I didn’t catch a ribbon-cutting and had to run off to work right after snapping a couple of shots.
I’m glad I looked professional enough to be mistaken for a newspaper photographer, though! 😉
Daniel Greene 