More festival fun today, mmm, Korean food. Anyway. After, Dave accompanied me on a night time shoot of the Standpipe, my favorite structure in Bangor. I LOVE the standpipe. It’s sort of a north star compass point for me, I always seek it out, whichever direction I’m coming from, wherever I’m going. It’s a habit to just look up at the lights, and I just really adore it. It’s so much better than typical standpipes, with town names painted on them, or the robin’s egg blue, or the red and white checkered ones. So, yay, standpipe. The C5050 takes up to a 16s exposure, so that’s what I used, and then played with contrast and such after. I LOVE the G4 for the speed and efficiency of dealing with pics, that’s for sure.
ETA: Info on the Standpipe, but yes, it is a water tower. I think(?) it has also been featured in a Stephen King book or two (IT, maybe?) but a more diehard King fan would know for sure.
What’s a standpipe?
I *think* its the big thing that holds water for the town. Gaffney SC has one shaped like a peach whichis really funny because as it comes up on the horizon it looks like a giant peach colored tushie!
Ha, a giant peach-colored butt. Ha! Here we call them water towers, if it’s what I think it is, and CTG is right about its purpose.
Dude. I would literally buy that last shot, the black and white one, and hang it up in my house. LOVE IT. Do you think you could print it in some sort of large format (the larger, the better)? Because I would purchase it from you. Seriously.
I love the first photo. Theres a lovely contrast between the standpipe and the night sky.
i know your parents are there. . .
want to challenge you, and know that you will get this message.
Tomorrow morning, 6am, walk 5 minutes, jog 60sec walk 90sec for 20min. You were going to do this a while back. . . Julie and I are starting tomorrow morning. Up for it???? We want to do the bay (3 miles) by Julie’s 35th Bday, in November.
Mmmkay, so this was a few days ago, but I’m just catching up. These photos are gorgeous — I especially love how the stars show.
Yes, the Standpipe was sort of in a Stephen King book. It played some role (I can’t remember what) in IT, but it was the Derry Standpipe; Derry was a small town near Bangor. Because of that book, the very word “standpipe” creeps me out, and your shots where the trees’ shadows fall against the standpipe are particularly creepy.