Sometimes you go in search of a story, but only find bits and pieces of one. Other times, you find the story you're looking for, and a half dozen more that you weren't, but lack the time to chase them all down. This first shot falls in the former category, went looking for signs of spring but the variety was a bit sparse at the time. Got sidetracked and never made it back out to shoot more before spring had sprung.
The next two shots fall into the latter category, was covering a protest against the freshly renewed war on Iran, but the security response is what really caught my eye. There were two, maybe three dozen people protesting in the rain outside a University of Louisville building connected to research for the military, but between the rent-a-cops and the campus police, there was more of a security response than at any of the 'No Kings' protests. Less drones though.
With their apparent enjoyment of life and their work, it was hard to resist the urge to sing them a song and ask to take their portraits. And they weren't the ones standing in the rain.
They were threatening us with wind gusts up to 70 mph (113km/h) a few weeks back, went wandering to see what would blow into my viewfinder. Discovered that the traffic lights controlling a weird, busy five way intersection were completely out, posted up and watched the ensuing chaos but the expected crash didn't happen until about ten minutes after I'd hiked on up the hill. Wasn't entirely a wash though, windy days are about the only time you can see downtown without the haze.
Went down to Smoketown in search of some golden hour shots but the clouds had other things in mind. The gloomy weather suited the scenery better, with the levels and lines of this crumbling relic of last century's industry calling to mind the ziggurats of ancient times.
