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You see construction sites all the time, mostly when you’re in a hurry to get somewhere and they decide to close the road you’re taking, and never when you actually need to take photos of construction sites for photography class. I searched far and wide and couldn’t find so much as a traffic cone until I went to the fabric store to get, most likely, fabric, and discovered that they had completely demolished the store next door.

I had to sneak past some fallen “do not pass” tape to get on to the site, feeling very nervous all the while because I hate trespassing. Photographing went off without a hitch, smoothly and inconspicuously. Then when I was sneaking back to the exit, I tripped over a large metal pipe.

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Another alley near my house, which, coincidentally, intersects Alley #1. This was taken the day after a storm, so there were lots of puddles all over the ground. I want to frame this print and hang it on my wall, but I’m too lazy to go out and buy a frame, especially since it’s a large print (11″ x 14″). Once again, this turned out a lot blurrier than it actually is, because my scanner isn’t big enough and I took a photo of it with my digital camera.

The cool thing about this photo: you see that nice, thick tree nearest to the center of the photo? Look just to the right of it, between its branches and the branches of the tree next to it. See that blurry spot in the sky? That’s a bird, accidentally captured mid-flight.