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Happy Sunday!

Good Morning from Nashville!  I have several images for you today.  We went downtown Nashville yesterday afternoon and I shot a hundred images.  I enjoy street photography but it can have some tense moments especially if you’re photographing someone who doesn’t want to be photographed.  🙂

Some more images of the Gateway Arch from St. Louis on Friday.  As you can see from the first image there is a lot of construction going on.  Basically they have leveled everything around the Arch and are in the process of building a tourist shop / museum around the arch.

I mentioned yesterday about seeing a “pedal bar” our first night in Nashville.    Yesterday, downtown we saw lots of them.  I’m not the brightest light in the hallway of life but there has to be a secondary power source.  This one went by and only a few of the participants were peddling.  Interesting notation is that all the pedal bars we saw yesterday were fully occupied by women.  🙂

Another observation is there are countless bars downtown.  I don’t mean just a few bars, I mean almost every building is a multi story bar.  They were all full and people and many folks standing outside waiting to get in.  I have no idea the amount of adult beverages being consumed yesterday afternoon and into the evening.  But if I had a dollar for every dollar spent on booze in the downtown area yesterday I could probably buy a lot more camera gear. 🙂

A close up of the top deck.  🙂

All and all it was a fun, albeit very hot and humid stroll around the downtown area.  I was very glad to get back to the air conditioning of the car.

Today at 6:00 p.m. my training starts.  I’m excited to meet Bill Fortney and the other 13 students.  More to come…

Thanks for checking out the blog.  Enjoy your day.  Stay cool and be careful.