March, 2013. On a bright, blue Saturday I went up into Philly to tour around the Art Museum and Boathouse Row area. It had been a while since I was up in that part of town. I started along Kelly Drive, taking some shots of the Fairmount Park area, and then parked the car and walked around a bit.
The famous Boat House Row is a colorful lineup of sculling club houses. And the occasional blue heron.
Along the river is what used to be the Philadelphia Water Works, now being reconditioned and turned into a quasi-museum-cum-fancy venue. It’s all a bunch of late 1800s Greek Revival stuff.
I walked out onto the Spring Garden Street bridge to get some shots of the Schuylkill Expressway and the Philly skyline. The new Ciro building over by 30th Street Station is interesting but really clashes with the rest of the skyline, for my money.
Then I turned my attention to the Art Museum, famous for the Rocky steps and such. Word is they got some paintings inside too. I didn’t even go inside, I was just interested in the exteriors. I found some of the details in the cornices of the big old pile quite interesting, especially the big painted friezes full of naked people.
I walked around the back of the place, for a perspective that most people never get. The back door is just as impressive as the front.
It was so bright and blue around here that every picture looks like it run through some sort of red & green filter.