July 25, 2019 – 400 South Tryon Street, Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina.

July 25, 2019 – Another long exposure photograph from uptown Charlotte, North Carolina of a steel sculpture called “Spiral Odyssey” against the city skyline.

According to the Qcitymetro website: The Sculpture is a stunning tribute to native son Romare Bearden by Richard Hunt.

The name “Spiral Odyssey” is a triple tribute. It honors Bearden, the master collage maker who co-founded the New York group Spiral in 1963 to encourage African-American artists. It refers to Homer’s “Odyssey,” which Bearden explored multiple times in his work. And it hints at the two-decade friendship between Bearden and Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt.

The piece can be called abstract, but your mind shapes bits of it into figures: the ship’s body, its billowing sail (or is that a wave?), perhaps a leaping dolphin. Hunt crafted slender arcs of steel so that light falling on them appears to ripple, like a current passing across water.

July 25, 2019 – Tonight I spent time wandering around uptown Charlotte, North Carolina shooting long-exposure photographs at night. This shot is of what I believe to be the Barings Building. The Barings is a leading global financial services firm and it’s HQ is in the building.

July 25, 2019 – Devotees call her “Firebird,” “Disco Chicken,” even “Big Bird” but her proper name is “Le Grand Oiseau de Feu Sur l’Arche,” or “The Large Bird of Fire on the Arch.” I captured this Long Exposure view of her late last night outside the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina.