Photographing Umbrella Alley

Who can take the rainbow?

(Who can take the rainbow?)

Wrap it in a sigh

(Wrap it in a sigh)

Soak it in the sun and make a groovy lemon pie--Sammy Davis Jr, 'The Candy Man'

Entry No. 52

East Liverpool, Ohio, a small town with not much going on there, has one bright spot if you look up. Look up toward the sky, you'll be in for a feast of color & a bit of wonder with their installation of Umbrella Alley.

The Umbrella Alley was created by the East Liverpool-Calcutta Garden Club.

If you live close to or near an Umbrella Alley of your very own, it makes for great street photography as an umbrella suspended mid-air over a charming alleyway that has bistro tables & chairs makes for a picturesque spot as well as a charming place to sip a cup of coffee.

Photographing East Liverpool's Umbrella Alley works well to have a wide-angle prime lens on your camera. I used the Yongnuo 16mm f/1.8 {20mm equivilant} prime lens for crop-sensor Sony cameras. The images were beautiful & the lens color rendition is so spot-on as well as vibrant.

This is the second Yongnuo lens that I own, the first, you can read here. I love them both!



The wide-angle lens also helped capture the alley in a way that the viewer could see the entire alley in all of its grandeur.

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