These are the stairs that lead to the Ticketmaster box office, while the other end leads to the pedway going into Edmonton City Center and/or the Churchill LRT Station.

For lunch this afternoon, I brought my camera with me since the skies were nice and blue. You can tell from the series of pictures how far I walked in 45 minutes. The walk started at Churchill Square across to the pyramid of Edmonton’s City Hall. Then a walk down 104 Avenue towards Grant MacEwan College turning south at 109 street. On the way back on Jasper Avenue, ‘apparently’ the sideway is closed by the new Rexall Place on 108th street. And finally back through the City Center East doors at the CBC radio station.

Today, I was practicing ‘Exposure To The Right’ technique where the photos are intentionally overexposed without blowing highlights and then recovering the exposure during post-processing.

I’m not sure why, but today I was really captivated by going down. These two shots show the fire stairwell out of our downtown office to the mall 2nd floor and then the escalator that goes down to the main entrance out to 100 street and 102 avenue. I particularly liked the range of highlights and shadows present in both of these photos.