4th and Broad

the intersection of 4th and Broad here in chattanooga has a special place in my heart, for I've been employed here more often than not. my senior year in college I worked parttime for greyfriars, which, upon graduation, turned into fulltime for the balance of the year. lots of good memories, but I did get tired of it.

then I went to work for jeff back when coptix was cross computer consulting. I will ever be thankful to him for getting me my start in web stuff.

but in a little while I was back on the block, working for 3HD. I even did double duty one summer, working for greyfriars (6am to 9am) and 3HD (9-5) to help pay off the credit cards. but that was a bit much.

6 months ago we moved offices, but it was only a few hundred feet north, closer to the intersection. and the intersection itself is looking much better: the haney building has been leveled, and 4th is two-way with trees and whatnot.

so here's a shot of the corner, as well as one of the back porch here at the new office. for the record, points of interest in the photo: creative discovery museum, bellsouth park (go lookouts!), a couple hotels, and the back of the bijou theater.

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photoblog?

there's a request at the end of this, so skip down a bit if you'd rather.

I enjoy photography, but I havent spent much time with it for a while. I'm not sure how good I ever was, but I had fun with it in highschool and college, taking classes and lots of pictures. I even had a rudimentary darkroom in my bathroom, which was quite cool. but then my old pentax spotmatic was lent and came back broken, and all the lenses and whatnot have long been sold on ebay.

so I was condemned to a crappy digital camera for a few years, which sapped most of the artistry from the pictures I took. more acurately, I took an entirely different approach to taking pictures: it was only about documenting whatever the heck we were up to. I did take some flower shots now and then, with moderate success, but thoughts of composition, color, etc we're fleeting.

now that our first kid is on the way, we got a pretty decent snapshot digicam (sony dsc-p72 - 3.2mp). the color and contrast aren't exactly to my liking, but that's why I've got Photoshop, and I'm thankful for it. so today I tweaked some of my latest flower pics, and I was pretty happy with the result. so I'm toying with the idea of a photoblog. I'm no Monty, but I can at least try.

which brings me to my request for you: what do you think? are these pics worth looking at? should I bring more to blogland, or just keep them to myself on the family site? I do post lots of our snapshots there, but I seldom shoot for aesthetic reasons. I guess there's lots of different reasons for a photoblog? so dear readers (as the cartalk guys would say: both of you), any thoughts?