Month: November 2008

Light up Louisville

/ Lizzie Morrison / 3 Comments
Light up Louisville
So I decided not to get in the middle of the crowds this year, and I thought I would get a unique skyline shot of downtown with the so called fireworks display going off in the center of town. I will know better next year. The fireworks display was probably fantastic from the center of town, but from the parking garage on Main not so much. To make matters worse I decided to take a vertical shot of the Aegon Center for Emporis.com with its red and green lights and my 30 second shot ended up taking more like a minute 45 and I didn’t get any pictures of the fireworks….So I stood on the 7th floor of a parking garage for 30 minutes with no gloves and freezing to death and I missed the fireworks. haha. what craziness. I was standing there screaming well.. more like yelling at my camera “Take the PICTURE” “Take the PICTURE” “Take the PICTURE”. Therefor my temperamental camera decided to take longer. Probably had something to do with the fireworks display going off on the left side of its view. Hopefully I’ll be able to sell this one picture though 😀 I’ll put up more pictures of downtown when they open the roads back up and move all the tents out of the way…..

Norton Commons

/ Lizzie Morrison / 1 Comment
Norton Commons
So also while out taking Emporis pictures the other day I came across Norton Commons. Wow what can I say, love the idea. In my head if i ever had a lot of money and land this is what I would do with it..except i pictured it somewhere out west, but this will do. My brother will totally disagree with this but I think the idea of a self contained subdivision is brilliant. It’s like a village. There’s not enough villages and small towns left in America today if you ask me. Instead of just another subdivision with the same 4 choices for designing your house Norton Commons has many different architectural choices which I find pleasing. This place is like Pleasantville in color/The Andy Griffith Show in a contemporary setting/ it’s nice to see small businesses inside a populated residential area. Enough with the Walmart’s and Mejier’s of this country. If I had the money I would move in that place right now and open up my own photography store around the corner, and then move my parents in down the street and have them run their own hardware store. It is so 2020 Mayberry. Here’s some pictures i took while i was there, strange making a wrong turn in and I ended up driving around for an hour or two. Love it. Love the layout too, I like the fact that the houses have back streets behind them so the garages are in back along with the mailboxes and trashbins. The less eye sores out front the better….