I recently spent a weekend in Savannah visiting my old roommate. It's always fun to go back to a place that you used to know intimately well and revisit it with a fresh new perspective. One of the things I always loved about Savannah was how close together everything is. It's easy to see all of the main sites the city has to offer in one weekend and yet there is always something new to discover when you come back for a round two. Living there for four years I loved that I had my bank, my job(s), my school, and all of my friends all within a mile of each other. Everything was within a short biking distance, a feature that is very hard to duplicate in a city the size of Atlanta. I do miss commuting to work on bike and don't think I'll ever truly get used to being in my car all the time.
One of my main goals for the trip was to re-shoot a panoramic I'd attempted to take of River Street back in college. The series of photos I used on the last try were good enough for me to use as a reference to paint this for my watercolor final,
but it didn't stand on it's own as a photograph. Parts of it were out of focus and I'd done a poor job merging the seams in several places. So, on my last Savannah excursion, I took the ferry back over to Hutchinson Island, took a new photo about every ten paces, put them together in Photoshop, and came out with this:
A much better result!
I also got a picture of the Talmadge Bridge lit up at night that I was rather pleased with:
