At this time of the year, the sun is lower in the sky, creating great light and long shadows in the morning and evening. During the daily commute, I started to capture some images at both ends of the day. This building across the road, had some reflections of another building in its windows. I had to wait awhile for the traffic to clear in the street before making this image.
The new Spectrum building is one of the buildings that has plenty of glass that gives the opportunity of capturing reflections.
There was some work around the building that required the use of a lift. The workmen had left it parked in an ideal location to capture the morning shadows.
Returning to the light rail station that same evening, I pass by several planters. Exploring the different planters, I settled on making an image of the translucent red flowers — lit up by the late afternoon sun.
Several planters have plants with really bright yellow-green leaves. It took some time to locate a planter with some decent leaves, where the leaves are in good condition and are in the shady side of the planter. Direct sunlight falling on the leaves would have created bleached highlights on the leaves. Looks like those holes in the leaves were created by beetles!
Finally, I stopped by the fountains. The water pressure is varied during the course of the day. When arriving, the water pressure increased, allowing fountains to rise to some 20-25 feet above the water. The sun to lit up the full sheet of water, allowing me to create an image from a reasonable distance without getting wet!
Just in time, before the water pressure dropped, lowering the fountains to about 5 ft in height.