Arch Nemesis

Somewhere in Beowulf there is a line that says, paraphrasing here:  Under god's arches are we all.  In a high school literature class I parodied this line using a McDonald's arch symbol and having a character state: "Under god's golden arches are we all."  Well...these arches are no longer golden.  No longer do they symbolize a buzzing hive of hunger-inducing sights and smells.  This particular McDonalds had just been ousted for the expansion of the campus Student Success Center.  I didn't go in here alot when I took photography classes in the art building, but occasionally the smell of warm grease was enough to assuage my hunger.  Alas, no more.

Lowry Mall, MU Campus (some time ago)

I had to reach into the archives to find this image.  This was what Lowry Mall, on the MU campus, looked like during the rainy summer of 1997.  Long before University Bookstore had a strangling hegemony on campus book sales, a second option called Missouri Bookstore existed.  It was on Lowry Mall, right next to McDonalds.  They mysteriously lost their lease a couple years later and were forced to leave...much to the delight of the forces that inhabited University Bookstore.  It was a nice place to get a bagel and sit in the sun between classes.  In the background is the tower of Jesse Hall, enshrouded in scaffolding.

Ellis Library, MU Campus

Yet another image from the campus at MU, taken after a late February rainstorm outside the library.  This image epitomizes what I am after with night photography, but it is rare that I come across, or see, something like this.

Lowery Mall, MU

I am starting my blog with this photograph taken on the campus at MU in order to set the tone of the forthcoming posts.  This blog will function as a personal, nocturnal study of my city at night, Columbia, Missouri.