This is my final entry for this part series. I definitely wanted to save some of the best photographs for the last post. I really had meant to do more in Boise but we had contracted Covid and so we spent our last days recovering before heading back to Portland. On this day I decided to head to the Boise Depot. My plan was to just shoot from Depot which stands perpendicular and slightly above Capitol Blvd, overlooking the city. It’s a very popular spot for visitors and photoshoots alike. I myself found out about it because my partner’s family had a photo of themselves in the same spot hanging at the house.
A little history lesson, the Boise Depot was historically a train station that ran between 1925 to 1997 when it finally closed down after 99 years of service. It is now a venue that you can reserve here.
Most of these photos if not all are long exposures as there was very little light and I was using an ND filter
Photo Courtesy: Boise City Archives, circa 1930
View of the foothills from the Depot late afternoon.
crop sensor 135mm, 1/500th sec, f/5.6, 800 ISO
From behind the Depot.
28mm, 8 sec, f/7.1, 160 ISO
I must have been here for several hours trying to get the perfect shot with the cars passing by
Overlooking Capitol Blvd
98mm, 20 sec, f/8, 200 ISO
the Spanish style architecture is seen very prominently all over the building
105mm, 6 sec, f/7.1, 160 ISO
Retired Engine No. 2295
28mm, 8 sec, f/10, 100 ISO
While I was out shooting, I noticed that some of the wildlife were a lot less scared to get near me here than in Portland. Wasn’t sure if it was because it was a smaller city or if people here are generally less scary to wildlife.
Great Blue Heron
105mm, 3 sec, f/9, 100 ISO
Ghost of a Great Blue Heron
or
When the Great Blue Heron Flew Away Mid-exposure.
105mm, 2 sec, f/4.5, 100 ISO
Boise Depot
38mm, 10 sec, f/13, 100 ISO
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