
Side View by rexp2

“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” by Dave DiCello

“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” by Dave DiCello
![Pittsburgh, Abandoned Church by real00 [pause on posting], Grand old Catholic church with beautiful domes fallen on hard times and neglect, seen from the parki](https://live.staticflickr.com/1627/25409843253_70016a4ddb.jpg)
Pittsburgh, Abandoned Church by real00 [pause on posting]

Carrie Furnaces #1B by rpantaleo
![Pittsburgh Wall by real00 [pause on posting], Wilkinsburgpittsburgh urbanlandscape](https://live.staticflickr.com/609/32246903122_73368553d8.jpg)
Pittsburgh Wall by real00 [pause on posting]

Springdale Halloween 2021 by wx412
![Pittsburgh, subject seen in passing, framed by real00 [pause on posting], pittsburgh urbanlandscape rustbelt decay industrial](https://live.staticflickr.com/2891/33231992666_2088e697fa.jpg)
Pittsburgh, subject seen in passing, framed by real00 [pause on posting]

Front of Carrie Furnace HDR by Dave DiCello
![Pittsburgh, Bride's Row, What Remains by real00 [pause on posting], This is a subject I return to often (e.g. <a href="https://flic.kr/p/Amvev4" rel="nofollow">flic.kr/](https://live.staticflickr.com/4623/25873120638_6d6b0db8c4.jpg)
Pittsburgh, Bride's Row, What Remains by real00 [pause on posting]
![Hugus Place, Pittsburgh by real00 [pause on posting], A little alley behind what used to be Babyland, on the corner of Negley and Penn. I was drawn in by](https://live.staticflickr.com/880/42853225942_1e764ce7f7.jpg)
Hugus Place, Pittsburgh by real00 [pause on posting]
![Pittsburgh Alley by real00 [pause on posting], Flat overcast light, a back alley, some garbage, decay and debris, a bollard, subdued colors of yell](https://live.staticflickr.com/7499/26941808501_97f9a163b9.jpg)
Pittsburgh Alley by real00 [pause on posting]
![Pittsburgh Alley by real00 [pause on posting], I'm inexorably drawn to back alleys, corrugated metal, rust, weathered paint, graffiti, discoloratio](https://live.staticflickr.com/1462/26262409500_04da050212.jpg)
Pittsburgh Alley by real00 [pause on posting]
![Pittsburgh brick and wire by real00 [pause on posting], The inner voice said "stop right here and point the camera over there." I did not ask why.](https://live.staticflickr.com/7416/27901479951_385f839ee8.jpg)
Pittsburgh brick and wire by real00 [pause on posting]

The Prize of Polish Hill by Theaterwiz
![East Liberty Wall by real00 [pause on posting], A slice of the radical change taking place in East Liberty. The pot holes and bricked-in windows and](https://live.staticflickr.com/885/40370768825_bbda44407e.jpg)
East Liberty Wall by real00 [pause on posting]
![Pittsburgh Winter, East Liberty by real00 [pause on posting], Frigid day, frigid view through the snow, rather bleak. Kind of appealing to me especially the space](https://live.staticflickr.com/4612/39797857312_9bbeaaf463.jpg)
Pittsburgh Winter, East Liberty by real00 [pause on posting]
![In my neighborhood: North Pacific St at Kincaid, Garfield by real00 [pause on posting], Some people living up the hill from me in Garfield have transformed their block into a riot of color](https://live.staticflickr.com/783/40117011785_e21ebd6835.jpg)
In my neighborhood: North Pacific St at Kincaid, Garfield by real00 [pause on posting]
![In my neighborhood: Corner of Stack Way and Rosina Way, Bloomfield by real00 [pause on posting], Nice raking light along a narrow Bloomfield Alley on a sparkling winter afternoon, encountered durin](https://live.staticflickr.com/980/40040843300_cbc7189348.jpg)
In my neighborhood: Corner of Stack Way and Rosina Way, Bloomfield by real00 [pause on posting]
![Notorious block of Formosa Way (aka "The Killing Fields"), Homewood, January 10, 2016 by real00 [pause on posting], When I first saw these apartment buildings, from the front, on Hamilton Avenue, I got a shiver. Then](https://live.staticflickr.com/1710/24226522963_2867016dac.jpg)
Notorious block of Formosa Way (aka "The Killing Fields"), Homewood, January 10, 2016 by real00 [pause on posting]
![Pittsburgh, detail of The Church Brewery by real00 [pause on posting], An abandoned church repurposed as a microbrewery/restaurant. The gleaming brewing equipment occupies](https://live.staticflickr.com/4163/34637836125_882cd3ba49.jpg)
Pittsburgh, detail of The Church Brewery by real00 [pause on posting]
![Pittsburgh wall, Bloomfield by real00 [pause on posting], This subject isn't really that far off the beaten path but it seems that way to me. It is an area of](https://live.staticflickr.com/7326/27613873781_1635b45a2b.jpg)
Pittsburgh wall, Bloomfield by real00 [pause on posting]
![Pittsburgh Framed Absence by real00 [pause on posting], I love looking at this image, which depicts an asphalt parking lot adjoining an alley surrounded by](https://live.staticflickr.com/8846/28310403956_e0fded10f7.jpg)
Pittsburgh Framed Absence by real00 [pause on posting]
![Hugus Way by real00 [pause on posting], Another view/another day of <a href="https://flic.kr/p/HeLAL7" rel="nofollow">flic.kr/p/HeLAL7</a>pi](https://live.staticflickr.com/828/40189206850_5e891f651a.jpg)
Hugus Way by real00 [pause on posting]
![East Liberty, demolition of Penn Plaza Apartments by real00 [pause on posting], The apartments, where many elderly on fixed incomes had lived for decades, were demolished before a](https://live.staticflickr.com/4617/40244574011_59a9e69a60.jpg)
East Liberty, demolition of Penn Plaza Apartments by real00 [pause on posting]
![Mall Landscape by real00 [pause on posting], An extension to the Edgewood Towne Centre Mall includes lots of strange new transitory landscaping.p](https://live.staticflickr.com/966/40085692170_0931eab7b6.jpg)
Mall Landscape by real00 [pause on posting]
![Lima Way at South Mathilda, Bloomfield, Pittsburgh, July 8, 2015 by real00 [pause on posting], Residential street view in Bloomfield neighborhood. Building at center built in 1904 was once a ciga](https://live.staticflickr.com/5689/21804149572_46e10f9a73.jpg)
Lima Way at South Mathilda, Bloomfield, Pittsburgh, July 8, 2015 by real00 [pause on posting]
![Comet Way, Shadyside by real00 [pause on posting], Just a half block away from the pristine upscale retail on Walnut Street, this alley offers up some](https://live.staticflickr.com/900/41140005972_4964b9846f.jpg)
Comet Way, Shadyside by real00 [pause on posting]
![Pittsburgh emptiness by real00 [pause on posting], An arbitratry collage of pictorial elements at the site of a former auto dealer in Lawrenceville.pit](https://live.staticflickr.com/3948/33278425604_969d43c803.jpg)
Pittsburgh emptiness by real00 [pause on posting]
![Pittsburgh back alley by real00 [pause on posting], Right next to the East Liberty branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is this captivating tabl](https://live.staticflickr.com/2815/33423248391_d7c640be39.jpg)
Pittsburgh back alley by real00 [pause on posting]
![The Newest Steps in Town by real00 [pause on posting], Writing breakpittsburgh urbanlandscape](https://live.staticflickr.com/962/28230477358_1d5c5e1d4d.jpg)
The Newest Steps in Town by real00 [pause on posting]
![Hugus Place, Pittsburgh by real00 [pause on posting], A little alley behind what used to be Babyland, on the corner of Negley and Penn. I was drawn in by](https://live.staticflickr.com/4777/27066443798_1a0c83fe24.jpg)
Hugus Place, Pittsburgh by real00 [pause on posting]
![Pittsburgh: Behind the derelict church by real00 [pause on posting], pittsburgh urbanlandscape decay rustbelt](https://live.staticflickr.com/2285/32958349865_6f343581f2.jpg)
Pittsburgh: Behind the derelict church by real00 [pause on posting]
![A Wall on Hugus Way by real00 [pause on posting], I think I'd prefer the wall without the text. It's quite a marvel on its own merits. That said, the](https://live.staticflickr.com/4775/27078085728_ee7605a843.jpg)
A Wall on Hugus Way by real00 [pause on posting]
![A most green fence by real00 [pause on posting], Always admire this fence when I drive past, which is often. It seems to photograph best under a flat](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/26711219817_5cf5e9abbc.jpg)
A most green fence by real00 [pause on posting]
![Pittsburgh, 5860 Baum Blvd by real00 [pause on posting], A forgettable location made riveting, to me, by the light and the color contrast.pittsburgh urbanlan](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/25834105968_940b9cd126.jpg)
Pittsburgh, 5860 Baum Blvd by real00 [pause on posting]
![Bloomfield Walk, May 18, 2016 (VII--green corner) by real00 [pause on posting], I drive past this house at least twice a day. There is something about that green obsession that app](https://live.staticflickr.com/7114/27801052821_bd36206b6c.jpg)
Bloomfield Walk, May 18, 2016 (VII--green corner) by real00 [pause on posting]
![Old Factory, Lawrenceville, January 29, 2016 by real00 [pause on posting], Nothing but a big empty parking lot with a few tire tracks in the snow, and a couple old rusty build](https://live.staticflickr.com/1629/24478735014_57170559fc.jpg)
Old Factory, Lawrenceville, January 29, 2016 by real00 [pause on posting]

Springdale Generating Station Close Up No. 1 by wx412
![Chair with a view by real00 [pause on posting], Walking in my neighborhood I was stopped by this scene. This one was more difficult to frame than us](https://live.staticflickr.com/879/27681930318_2fb87dd375.jpg)
Chair with a view by real00 [pause on posting]
![Urban landscape by real00 [pause on posting], Corner shot, Bloomfield, Pittsburgh pittsburgh urbanlandscape streetscene](https://live.staticflickr.com/501/31407223024_c2b4707fd7.jpg)
Urban landscape by real00 [pause on posting]
![Behold, a wall like no other, Lawrenceville, February 3, 2016 by real00 [pause on posting], Dented, rusty, slap-dash corrugated wonderment in a perfect raking light.abstract corrosion corrugat](https://live.staticflickr.com/1629/25532937010_dd17f58da6.jpg)
Behold, a wall like no other, Lawrenceville, February 3, 2016 by real00 [pause on posting]
![Exurban wasteland by real00 [pause on posting], Eye-catching gloominess behind a Monroeville mall down on its luck outside Pittsburgh on a cold and](https://live.staticflickr.com/4285/34919342251_3daf8b2f82.jpg)
Exurban wasteland by real00 [pause on posting]
![Excelsior Laundry by real00 [pause on posting], Big old brick building in Bloomfield. Formerly Excelsior Laundry. The plastic windows suggest someon](https://live.staticflickr.com/7317/26753192584_973f54dbe5.jpg)
Excelsior Laundry by real00 [pause on posting]

Springdale Generating Station Close Up No. 2 by wx412
![Pointless photograph of a wall, Lawrenceville, February 3, 2016 by real00 [pause on posting], The relief texture on this wall, in the raking late afternoon light, took on some interesting patter](https://live.staticflickr.com/1686/26112949446_5befe7e1af.jpg)
Pointless photograph of a wall, Lawrenceville, February 3, 2016 by real00 [pause on posting]
![4 views of the corner of 48th and Harrison (1), Lawrenceville, January 7, 2016 by real00 [pause on posting], I'm drawn to these fading industrial areas of Pittsburgh, some of which are within about a mile of m](https://live.staticflickr.com/1573/25010979699_a1a5efcebf.jpg)
4 views of the corner of 48th and Harrison (1), Lawrenceville, January 7, 2016 by real00 [pause on posting]
![Pointless image by real00 [pause on posting], There is no subject. I don't know what moved me to take this picture, but seeing it, I kind of like](https://live.staticflickr.com/7414/27347946023_0293352068.jpg)
Pointless image by real00 [pause on posting]
!["Let's DO This" by real00 [pause on posting], In a back alley in Garfield, Some aluminum siding that is in the process of succumbing to gravity. T](https://live.staticflickr.com/7469/27272094792_f0829b2f7d.jpg)
"Let's DO This" by real00 [pause on posting]
![The alley next to Walmart by real00 [pause on posting], At the Waterworks Mall there are more photographic subjects to my liking in the spaces between and b](https://live.staticflickr.com/867/39623278540_ae9f148ab2.jpg)
The alley next to Walmart by real00 [pause on posting]
![Skyline from Melwood Avenue, March 6, 2016 by real00 [pause on posting], I liked the tall building in the back with the boarded up windows by itself, but in the company of t](https://live.staticflickr.com/1492/25986292391_588d4fde28.jpg)
Skyline from Melwood Avenue, March 6, 2016 by real00 [pause on posting]
![Playing in the alley by real00 [pause on posting], I was distracted by the potential arrangement of these unrelated and unremarkable elements in an Eas](https://live.staticflickr.com/788/26200988187_4480f961f8.jpg)
Playing in the alley by real00 [pause on posting]

In Distress by Don Henderson
![Construction site, Strip District, Pittsburgh, October 23, 2015 by real00 [pause on posting], Reds and oranges, natural and man-made. An old pale blue factory in the background. A Port-A-John. V](https://live.staticflickr.com/5823/22642809533_3f9636a8e6.jpg)
Construction site, Strip District, Pittsburgh, October 23, 2015 by real00 [pause on posting]
![Late June Light in the City by real00 [pause on posting], Jaw-dropping light on this spectacular summer evening elevates a mundane intersection into the realm](https://live.staticflickr.com/8860/27856460874_69cc17764c.jpg)
Late June Light in the City by real00 [pause on posting]
![Light and Shadow play in the alley by real00 [pause on posting], Need a break from writingpittsburgh urbanlandscape](https://live.staticflickr.com/1758/42359082502_bf0ec45f3d.jpg)
Light and Shadow play in the alley by real00 [pause on posting]

Diary Entry: Gray hair be damn'd... by S LYNN LEE

AVR-1 at Allegheny River Bridge - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Brad Morocco
![Altered yellow-brick wall by real00 [pause on posting], pittsburgh urbanlandscape rustbelt](https://live.staticflickr.com/8042/29188447230_ef4b277386.jpg)
Altered yellow-brick wall by real00 [pause on posting]
![Mall Wall, Fox Chapel, February 21, 2016 by real00 [pause on posting], Nice super-bland view of a big long wall at a mall, with "landscaping" consisting of nearl](https://live.staticflickr.com/1442/24812354384_62e5bd30ba.jpg)
Mall Wall, Fox Chapel, February 21, 2016 by real00 [pause on posting]