I See Beauty All Around, by Rob Paine

Category: City Photography

  • Suburban Landscape Photography Starring Canadian Geese and Ducks

    After moving to Northern Virginia as a little boy, I remember visiting a local park and seeing Canadian geese. A park naturalist pointed to one of the geese and told me, “that is a Canadian goose, it flies down from Canada every year to dodge the cold weather up north and enjoy the warm weather…

  • Wordless Wednesday: More Framing Pittsburgh

    One Way Sign in Pittsburgh by Rob Paine (please see below for second photo)

  • Framing Pittsburgh

    The more time I spend in Pittsburgh the more I am of the opinion that the Steel City is one of the most photogenic towns in the country. How high on my list is it? I would include it in my top three, with Boston, 2, and San Francisco, number one.  Two of my favorite…

  • Panorama-Mania

    I shot the photo above at the final regular 2013 season meeting between the Washington Nationals and the Atlanta Braves game in D.C. last night. It is a panorama shot with Canon PowerShot from the first row of Section 203 at Nationals Park. I have been taking a lot of panoramas lately and have been…

  • San Francisco Street Scenes

    Several years ago I had the good fortune to visit San Francisco on business twice in about eight weeks. Every morning I would get up at sunrise and walk from my hotel near Union Square to Fisherman’s Wharf. I would try to make the same trek (sometimes taking a cable car back) in the evening.…

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Unusual Point of View -Netherlands Carillon, Virginia

    I think one of the most fun creative challenges of being a photographer in Washington D.C. is trying to find a fresh angle or an unusual point of view when shooting the iconic landmarks that dot the city. The photo above I shot at the Netherlands Carillon was approached in that spirit. (Please see second…

  • Wordless Wednesday: The Jackson Building, Asheville, N.C.

    To read the interesting history of the Jackson Building,

  • When Panoramas Rule

    I try to be prudent when it comes to employing special effects or using exotic wide angle lenses. They are fun and accomplish some cool results. When used too often though, they become cliche and sometimes can even defeat the original purpose of using the effect or lens which would be to make the photo…

  • On top Of Philadelphia City Hall

    I shot this photo during the same trip to Philadelphia on which I took yesterday’s Weekly Photo Challenge series. The new Le Méridien Philadelphia hotel had just opened and I had a room on an upper floor. When I woke in the morning I looked out my window to see the top of City Hall…

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: One Shot, Two Ways in Fredericksburg, Va.

    I had the pleasure of taking guide photos in Fredericksburg, Va., recently. When I am photographing a city, town, or neighborhood I do a lot of walking, miles of walking in fact, so I can see every conceivable view and angle of the area’s notable features. I may shoot wide and tight, low and high…