Evening on South Salisbury Street: A Posterior View of Raleigh
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“You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.” - William Albert Allard
Changing locations is always tricky for a photographer because you don't want to confuse your audience. What kind of photographer are you? That begs the question... what kind of photographer am I? I love all types of photography, from studio work to street scenes to urban and rural studies to classic landscapes including mountains, trees, and beaches. I'll capture it all, and I try to do it with my point of view front and center.
Still, with the way photographs are displayed on an Instagram feed in a tile of images, a consistent look in the feed is the holy grail for many of my fellow photogs and I will never have that. What you will see is my work will always be high quality with the subject held in the fondest regard and the image will be captured ethically. I'd like to think that the viewer will always recognize my work when they see a new image of mine. Please enjoy my post from April 10, 2021...
Running north and south in downtown Raleigh between the Capital District and the Meymandi Concert Hall, Salisbury Street is named after one of North Carolina's eight original judicial districts. Salisbury, a small city in the Piedmont just northeast of Charlotte, has been the county seat of Rowan County since 1753 when, in those days, Rowan County extended all the way west to the Mississippi River.
Salisbury Street also serves, like parallel city streets often do, as the "back alley" for some of the more important buildings on far more upscale Fayetteville Street. Among these buildings in view this 'Evening on South Salisbury Street' are the rear facades of the historic Boylan-Pearce Department Store which helped bring fashion to Raleigh in the early to middle twentieth century and the Briggs Hardware Store, Raleigh's first skyscraper and whose first floor now serves as the home of the Raleigh City Museum.
At the far corner with West Hargett Street, glowing radiantly in the evening sun, is the Odd Fellows Building, a 1923 ten-story Classical Revival that is currently known as the Commerce Building. And of course, towering over the entire scene is the Wells Fargo Capitol Center Building, Raleigh’s third tallest building.
I love photographing the less well-known and often grittier streets of cities. The rear sides of these older buildings have lots of character and deserve some time in the limelight, don't you think?
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