On Saturday, my wife and I did something we hadn’t done for a while: we went out with our cameras with the sole purpose of taking photos. We didn’t go far from home. We parked by Kirby park and took some photos there before walking across the Market Street Bridge and a little into downtown Wilkes-Barre. I am feeling a renewed interest in infrared photography, so I spent most of my time working on that. Note: in many of these photos, it looks almost as if the scene is blanketed in snow — that’s not the case. Foliage appears white in infrared photos.

Wilkes-Barre sign

Kirby Park

Levee Trail

Grass and sky

Market Street Bridge

Grass and clovers

Obelisk

Looking toward Wilkes-Barre

Eagle gargoyle

Looking toward Wilkes-Barre. In normal light, the Citizens Bank sign is green, and the Guard Center sign is blue.

The abandoned Sterling Hotel

Sterling Hotel

Looking up at the Sterling

Door

Tyvek snaps in the wind

A couple of other downtown buildings

After a while, I switched away from Infrared. I love the stylized images produced by the infrared shots, but the technique requires a lot of patience, a tripod, and trial-and-error. I wanted to walk around and do some freer hand-held shots.

The same buildings again, in normal color

Scratched wall in a dingy alley

Plants growing out of a wall of the Sterling

Citizens Bank and other buildings

Masonic Temple / Fallout Shelter

Another shot of the fallout shelter sign

Brick patterns on the Masonic Temple

Downtown

We really only covered the bridge and a couple of blocks of downtown. The city looks very cool in infrared, I’ll have to do more of this.

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