I've wanted to visit Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water and Jenn suggested we make it a side trip on our way home from Pittsburgh. It's a truly stunning feet of engineering and design and I strongly recommend going. My one annoyance was the assembly line way they shovel tourists through the place. Granted, they have a ton of people coming to visit but you are not allowed to take pictures while in the house and at least our tour guide didn't bother giving too much info. I was much more impressed when I visited Talesin West but then our tour guide there was an architecture student.

To be honest, I had fantasies about the amazing images I was going to take of Falling Water. I know it has been photographed by photographers far more talented than I but I figured I was going to bring home something amazing.

Not so much. Here, HDR saved me. It took, for me at least, a rather dull picture from a vantage point that everyone shoots from and made it a little more interesting. Oh well.

On our last night in Pittsburgh, we went up to Mt.Washington which has a terrific view of the Pittsburgh cityscape. I made this panorama which I think turned out really well. I've included a small version here but I strongly recommend going to the original size on Flickr which can be found here. Warning, it will take a bit of time to load and be very large.

Jenn and I went to Jenn's family reunion in Pittsburgh for a long weekend. Both parts of Jenn's family is from the Pittsburgh area. We'd been there once before and this time, armed with a dSLR and a little more knowledge of the city, I was intent on getting some good shots. Specificially from Mt.Washington.

But what amazed me most was that everywhere there was something interesting to photograph in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is a great city. It's not quite like New York, D.C. or L.A. It has a metropolitan feel which doesn't crush you. Definitely a place I'd like to go back to.