Jackknife Bridge, Cleveland (2004)

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My hometown, beloved Cleveland, Ohio. This is the view from the Hope Memorial Bridge, the location of the Art Deco relief on my Home page.
Cities based along a body of water lend themselves to night photography. The skyscrapers glow upward from the streetlights below, and reflect their multicolored light onto the water.
The night was just windy enough to gloss over the water, and make for a classic ‘postcard’ shot.
One of my mother’s favorite sculptors is Constantin Brancusi, a good friend of Impressionist painter Modigliani.
My first exposure to Brancusi was in Paris in 1995, where the George Pompidou center had an entire floor dedicated to an exhibit of his work.
When in the Met in New York, I came across this sculpture and his most famous, “Bird,” shown towards the bottom of this page.
This is a shot of UC’s newest residence hall, shot from the balcony of my third floor suite in Sawyer Hall.
Somehow, the building doesn’t seem real. It looks like the computer renderings the University shows to all the prospective students.