I probably shouldn't be using tonight's photo, if I'm being honest. Not because of anything truly terrible, I'm just fairly certain that the focus is a little off. It's not that noticeable at this size, since you can clearly make out Glassburgh on the sticker, but once you start zooming in things start to become a little... fuzzy. I noticed this when I was correcting the image but ended up deciding to keep going with it. Despite the fact that I've been shooting using a manual focus for many years, I still haven't quite mastered that ability to judge when things are truly in focus. Part of the problem here was the fact that I was clearly taking this on a winter evening and the sun had started to set. Low light photography is always rough when you don't have a tripod to stabilize things and my night photography skills are more than a little rusty at this point. I ended up deciding to roll with it though because I enjoy the lines throughout the picture and the sights in the background. I also thought that with the recent heat people would enjoy the reminder of cooler times. Oh and the sticker is also pretty interesting.
This sticker is another great example of local business advertising. Glassburgh is a vape and glass shop over in the Southside, clearly taking advantage of the recent influx of interest in vaping. According to Yelp there are 89 results when you search for "vape shops" in the area, although who know how close to Pittsburgh all of these results really are. Like many of the shops on this list, Glassburgh emphasizes its local roots. Their logo has the recognizable cityscape in the background and uses our spelling of 'burgh in the name. While there are clearly a large number of vape shops out here, Glassburgh does at least appear to be a unique one. Granted I have no real experience with vaping, so have no idea what is typically sold in these shops, but they seem to specialize in glass pipes and other glass paraphernalia. I'm sure this is a common sight in these types of places but if their Instagram is anything to judge by, it looks like they tend to make their own products. There's a couple of shots of people glass blowing in their feed, which is always fascinating to see. The variety of pipes and designs is also rather impressive and fairly artistic to my untrained eye. Again this may be typical for vape shops, I just have to give credit where I think it's due.
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Maggie Ondrey
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