river – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

At the Point

Gateway Clipper boat approaching the Point. St. Mary of the Mount at the top right on Mount Washington. Sunday night, taken from North Shore.

July 27, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Allegheny River, church, fountain, Mount Washington, night photography, photography, Pittsburgh PA, Pittsburgh Photography, postaday, river, Riverboat, St. Mary of the Mount 11 Comments

Wordless Wednesday

July 24, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: #riversofsteel, #wordlesswednesday, Monongahela River, photography, Pittsburgh PA, Pittsburgh Photography, postaday, reflection, river, wordless wednesday 19 Comments

Night Lights in the City

Night lights in the city. Pittsburgh. Sunday night. Taken from the North Shore of the Allegheny.

July 22, 2018 by Ruth Categories: Night Light in the City, Photography, Pittsburgh PhotographyTags: Allegheny River, city, city scene, Gulf Building, Highmark, night light in the city, Pittsburgh PA, Pittsburgh Photography, postaday, PPG building, river, skyline, UPMC 13 Comments

River Spree Boat Ride

River Spree boat ride Gallery.

Lots of low bridges. Don’t stand up!

Old buildings and new buildings. Lots of construction, too.

April 9, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: architecture, Berlin, boat, boat ride, bridge, city, city scene, Germany, museum, photography, postaday, river, River Spree, tour, tourism, travel 5 Comments

Go in and out the window- or through!

It’s the Weekly Photo Challenge by Michelle Weber at WordPress- Windows!

She asks What do you see though yours? I went back a few years and looked through the archives and there are lots of window images. Car windshields, curio cabinets, subway and train windows, house and downtown office windows, refrigerator and store window displays.

MOMA MOMA windows NYC

murray ave Squirrel Hill Pittsburgh PA

watchng traffic through window

Through a window- Watching the NYC traffic below

Garbage Truck Pittsburgh

curio cabinet window Barbara S doll collection

anna school bus windopw

September 27, 2017 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Weekly Photo ChallengeTags: car wash, doll collection, garbage truck, glass, Macy's flower show, NYC, postaday, river, school bus, Steelers, store window, weekly photo challenge, window, windows 6 Comments

Tugs and Barges Passing at Dusk

Ohio River Sunday night. We were visiting our Neville Island friends again. They live on the banks of the Ohio River. We had a wonderful boat ride earlier and it was time for dinner. Two tugs and their barges appeared up river and down river. Our host pointed out the buoy that marked the channel and told us they both had to be on this side on it. How would there be enough room? As the sun was sinking we watched them approach one another, a horn blew. It was a dramatic end of the day on the river.

September 18, 2017 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: barge, boating, friendship, Ohio River, photography, postaday, river, transportation, tug boat 13 Comments

Pittsburgh River Rescue

Fortunately it’s a timed challenge practice drill and not a real rescue situation on the Ohio River yesterday. These men and women do important and difficult work.

I’d taken two grandkids to the Carnegie Science Center and we had just toured the submarine docked behind the Center.

Watching the diver dive into the river while tethered to the rope as it unfurled, was something to see. Another diver waited on deck, ready to help if diver one got into trouble.

You have to be a paramedic first before any further training can begin. The instructor was patient and answered all Jack’s questions.

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“USS Requin, a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named after the requin, French for shark. Since 1990 it has been a museum ship at The Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania”. Wikipedia

August 30, 2017August 31, 2017 by Ruth Categories: People at Work, PhotographyTags: CArnegie Science Center, diver, Ohio River, people at work, photography, postaday, river, river rescue, scuba diver, SUBMARINE, technology, training exercise, USS Requin 5 Comments

Neville Island Night Lights on the Ohio River

The retirement party at our friend’s home on Neville Island began in early afternoon but the barges and tugs went by into the night. Both directions!

Lots of drama to watch. Multiple freight trains on the opposite bank blew their train whistles.

See the powerful blue light the Captain was shining down river to illuminate a buoy in the middle of the river? Neville Island Bridge is in the background.

Centerpieces with tiny white lights and fishing accessories glowed like lanterns.

Here you can see the dark barges being pushed by the tug as they approach the bridge.

The bonfire kept us warm and warded off the increasing damp chill as the sun disappeared. Skipping the photo my friend took of me devouring a gooey s’more.

Happy Retirement, Sy

August 13, 2017 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: barge, boat, bonfire, bridge, fire, friendship, Neville Island, night photography, Ohio River, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, river, tugboat 19 Comments

The Schuylkill

The Schuylkill River. Philadelphia.

On my way back to Pittsburgh from New York after a nice Thanksgiving holiday with the family.

Here’s a shot taken Monday through a train window- #43 The Pennsylvanian – as we crossed over both the river and the Schuylkill Expressway.

My parents lived in Philadelphia 12 years but I lived there for only one of those years. A flood of nostalgia as the train rolled into Philly.

There are interesting place names (how about Wissahickon?) you don’t find anywhere else in the country. The river and expressway name always was hard for me to spell correctly. It’s that extra “L” in there. Turns out it’s a Dutch word meaning “hidden or skulking creek”