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Greenville at Night

Posted on April 13, 2007 By Tom 1 Comment on Greenville at Night
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Buncombe Street Night 

The Digital Photography School had posted their latest assignment this week, which was "Urban Scenes", whatever that may be.   While I do have some shots of buildings in Greenville, I didn’t have anything I considered really urban.  I guess I could have submitted some of my photos from another city, such as London or Philadelphia, but I wanted something of MY city.

After dinner, I drove to the top of the Bowater parking garage.  I knew the garage afforded a view of the Liberty Bridge, but what I really wanted was a long-exposure shot of traffic on the Church Street Bridge.  Turns out that (1) the parking garage is not a great vantage point for that bridge and (2) there just wasn’t that much traffic on Church Street.  Most of those shots didn’t turn out.  I did get a shot of the Greenville skyline.

Greenville Skyline at Night 

My next stop was the Spring Street parking garage.  From there I had a great view of Buncombe Street, as seen in the shot at the top of the post.  I really wnated some streaming headlights and taillights.  Since Buncombe is one-way, all I got were headlights, and those came to a stop at the traffic light.  Still, the star-pattern formed by using a small aperture turned out nicely.  I clicked off a few, then went to the other side of the garage and took some shots of the Coffee Street area, which didn’t turn out as well. 

Before I knew it, it was quite late.  I may have to find an overpass so I can get some Interstate highway traffic for really good headlight streams.

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One thought on “Greenville at Night”

  1. Ken C says:
    April 16, 2007 at 9:33 am

    I tried doing some longer exposure night shots from a rooftop bar in Charleston. Problem is that, in order to maintain the pre-modern historical schtick of the city, it’s very poorly lit at night. Buildings aren’t lit up much at all. Were the bar over Meeting Street, this might have not been a problem due to traffic. But the points east of East Bay are basically pedestrian. Ah, well.

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