I have been spending a lot of my free time gathering images from downtown Roanoke during my time here.  I have not been able to edit as efficiently or quickly as I would like, but the important thing is the image gathering!(you can always edit later:)

roanoke virginiaImages from the city of Roanoke Virginia. This first image is from the same spot as the first images from the last blog post. Only this time I can during blue hour!  I took multiple exposures as traffic cruised by to really add a sense of morning busyness:)  I still have more images to edit from this area, and those will appear in the gallery when I get to them.

Over the course of a couple days, I made two different stops on top of the parking garage near Elmwood Park to take some images from the nice high vantage point.  

In this first one, I was really up against the clock with some work stuff so this was as far into blue hour as I could shot that morning.(it is 3 exposures to show more traffic).

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The next set of images from that same area occur when I had a little more time to watch the sun rise further!  Below you can see the reflection of the colored clouds in the windows of the buildings.  downtown roanoke virginiaImages from Downtown Roanoke in Southwest Virginia.

This next photo is a vertical panorama that allows me to include the cool clouds above the buildings.

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Moments later the sun was up and casting nice warm light on the downtown buildings.

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