“Yellow Skeletons on Distant Blue” – Frick Park – Pittsburgh, PA – Standing on the side of a mountain… But not just any mountain… A man made mountain of industrial slag… Photograph of the trees… Trees strong enough to penetrate what is essentially a solid rock… The background blue is the opposing slag heap… A valley that would not even exist if not for the need to allow for drainage… My favorite shot of the weekend…
“Shadows Bend for the Rolling Hills” – Frick Park – Pittsburgh, PA – Photograph of an old mountain… Rounded in the rain… Trees standing naked… Shadows bend around the sleeping leaves…
“It Takes a Valley to Reach a Peak” – Frick Park – Pittsburgh, PA – Walking in the shadow of an aging mountain… Sounds of an urban brook… Water headed to the river… Eventually flowing out into the sea…
“Memories of Parks Past” – Frick Park – Pittsburgh, PA – Along the valley trail sits a rotting park bench… Condition is used… Moss now growing around the rotting bolts…
“Handicapped Blue on Caution Yellow” – Frick Park – Pittsburgh, PA – Not quite sure why anyone would paint a park bench… But I am sure of why they picked the colors… Leftovers from other departments maybe?.. Remnants… Commonly thought of as colors to warn… In this case… Colors that invite…
“Under Hell” – Frick Park – Pittsburgh, PA – One of the few reminders that Frick is in fact an urban park… This is the entrance to the Squirrel Hill Tunnel from below…
“Where Hell Connects to the Earth” – Frick Park – Pittsburgh, PA – Urban cave drawings… Hieroglyphics… Art… At the foot of hell…
“Red Berries and a Blue Sky” – Frick Park – Pittsburgh, PA – Berries growing along the side of the slag heap… Hanging on for dear life… Waste for now… But once winter sets in… Food for the forest…
“Simple Life – Helping Hand” – Frick Park – Pittsburgh, PA – I like the depth winter affords me in my photography… I have to,really look for colors… I have to zone out and focus… Even the little things make for wonderful photographs…
“Winter Goodnight” – Frick Park – Pittsburgh, PA – The winter sun is low… Much of the time it is simply hiding… Seek the sun when it is low… Magic happens in the moments between…
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chriscondello 
I always enjoy your pictures of nature, but in this composition it’s the urban cave drawings that got me.
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great photos – thanks for the inspiration.
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