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Philly in 50mm: Museum District

More 50mm shots from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this time near the art museum (made famous in Rocky). 

The hike from downtown to the museum district is a pleasant one, lined with sycamore trees and art installations along the way. At the start, you have the Barnes Foundation, and then halfway down the path you have the Rodin Museum – a space that looks like an ancient Roman edifice left behind by millennia and plunked down into a sprawling, modern American city. 

Then you get to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with its Rocky statue and iconic stairway, and you can tell this is where people gather. Especially dudes who just jogged all the way here to run up those steps. 

I haven’t been to Philly in years, not since my big Revoluationary War tour of New England in 2008, and it was great to see some places I didn’t catch on the original trip.

Shot on the Canon R with the RF 50mm f/1.8 lens.

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Philly in 50mm: Downtown

Quick work trip last week to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area.

My coworkers and I had a chance to visit downtown Philly briefly. With only my work camera – a Canon R with the RF 50mm f/1.8 lens – I snagged a few pictures around the historic district and the art museum stairs (made famous in the Rocky movie). 

These are the downtown portion, in and around the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall.

I don’t often do the street photography thing, but it was nice to explore a busy urban area and capture the people and scenes around this important American city.

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