Inspiration Trip: Day 8

Embracing the Industrial Landscape

Carrie Blast Furnaces National Historic Landmark

The landscape of Pittsburgh has changed dramatically since I left there in 1992, but there are still wonderful places to get the flavor of how it used to be. I was thrilled to find the Rivers of Steel: Carrie Blast Furnaces National Historic Landmark. They have tours, which meant that I didn’t have to break in and surreptitiously walk about taking pictures pretending to be ignorant that I was trespassing the way I used to do years ago. I only took a little over 700 pictures there.

Every day I am grateful for digital cameras.

Inspiration Trip: Day 6

On a clear day you can see Braddock

Poles and towers at the Edgar Thompson Works, Braddock PA

It was, at last, a clear day, so I headed down to Braddock to grab some shots [ a few hundred of them ] of the Edgar Thompson Works for US Steel. The vast majority of the steel industry has closed down, but this plant still seems to be in some part operational.

The shapes that make up industrial landscapes are so inspiring. Towers, tanks, warehouses. Walls of windows, towering smokestacks, and webs of wires. There are a lot of projects to come with this.