So it's not all about sunshine and rainbows. If you've lived in Northeast Ohio for at least a year you know what I'm talking about. There's no roadmap to the weather and even if they do draw it out it's usually not right. The forecast called for snow starting at 8 o'clock. So I met up with my cousin Nick and John at Pour coffeehouse down on Euclid Ave. around 5:45, Nick has never shot Cityscape in downtown Cleveland and John had the winter blues so I felt like I needed to drag both of them out. As usual just like dinner plans no one has any idea of where they want to go, I’ve been to every inch of downtown so I tell them the cards are in their hands. I end up leading anyway. We head north to an alley that I’ve had in my mind for a few weeks now. As we get down to E 9th. St. the hail starts hitting our face, it stings, the wind whipping down 9th is pretty brutal. We set up our tripods anyway. Looking West through the alley you can see the Key tower, it sets a nice tone for the evening ahead. We each blast off a few shots of each other taking shots and head West towards the popular E. 4th St, but first we stop at the statue in front of the Hyatt and luckily we don’t get kicked out. About 20 minutes and we finally move on.
I’ve been to 4th so many times I can’t even count so it requires me to get creative with how I shoot it, luckily it’s been raining so I have plenty of puddles to play with. I don’t hesitate to set my camera down in the middle of the street and start firing off some photos. To the right of me I see Nick taking some photos of me so I try to be as still as possible, hopefully he got some bangers. At this point we’ve been out in the rain and hail for two hours, it’s time to grab some food. We settle on the Harry Buffalo and our buddy Jason meet us down there with his seven-year-old who is also photographer, how cool is that! We all smash some wings and fries, head out into the city again. Johns the first one to head home, shortly followed by Nick. Jason myself and his Son head down to Public Square, grab some shots of The Terminal Tower with the Kiss logo on it, not sure why it's on there. Maybe an inductee to The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? We decide to call it a night, but not before Jason takes care of his deposit for the San Francisco workshop (we still have a spot) We part ways, even though it was crappy weather all night I still enjoyed getting out with some good people and creating!
