366 Days of 2012, Day 214 - Piano Man

Beautifully lit fountains at night are pretty and make for great photographs.

But after you have seen about 500 different version of pretty fountains the images start to grow tiring. My daughter requested that I photograph this fountain that she found because 'it's pretty!' After a bunch of typically cliched 'pretty' fountain shots (this one even cycled through the colours of the rainbow) I could not stand it any longer and started experimenting with the fountain in its environment.

Off in the background there was an interesting building with arched windows that made and interesting contrast and then I saw him; the man in the window at what appears to be a piano.

I watched him for a while and it looked like he was moving back and forth between a desk and the piano. Perhaps he was composing, perhaps he was arranging, perhaps he was doing something else altogether different. What ever he was doing it made a wonderful point of interest in yet another pretty fountain image!


Photo: Robert Rath, '366 Days of 2012, Day 214 - Piano Man'. 30 sec f/22 ISO-50 105mm