Downtown Charlotte at Magic Hour

In the photography realm, it’s known as “magic hour”…everyone else usually just calls it twilight.  I managed to catch downtown Charlotte right in the middle of it this evening and posted a photo here.  As a point of reference, the camera is facing South by Southeast, so the setting sun really couldn’t be in a more perfect place to get this type of lighting on the buildings from the angle of my balcony.

Sidenote:  You can see a pretty big change in the lower right hand corner of my view from this photo (scroll down a bit) taken ~16 months ago; that big white obnoxious looking obstruction in the newer pic are dorms for the Charlotte campus of Johnson & Wales University which were completed just in time to annoy the holy hell out of me; at least once a week some idiot chef-in-training pulls the fire alarm and two fire trucks come screaming down the street to turn them off.  Usually really late at night.  Stupid college kids.  If you’d like to see how ridiculously spoiled these kids are, here’s the website for the dorms.  That’s right, full kitchens and bathrooms…and $534 bucks a month per bedroom.  My first apartment was $495.