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Posted on November 29, 2012 // 4 Comments

Savannah City Hall

Savan­nah City Hall

I didn’t know this at the time, but I’ve since learned that the very top dome of the Savan­nah City Hall was cov­ered with gold in 1987. Now that’s quite an ambi­tious state­ment. Here in Cen­tral Florida, I hear news reports all the time about peo­ple get­ting busted for steal­ing cop­per. Just imag­ine how many peo­ple want to get their hands on a dome full of gold. I hope they have some secu­rity cam­eras up there.

When I travel, I gen­er­ally plan ahead and look for spe­cific photo oppor­tu­ni­ties that I want to shoot. Even a city where I’ve been many times before, like Las Vegas, still has inter­est­ing details that could work in a photo. I mostly just want to be pre­pared so I don’t wan­der around in a daze and miss out on a nice travel image.

Savan­nah was no dif­fer­ent for me. I stopped there on my way back from a road trip to Wash­ing­ton, D.C. with the plan of vis­it­ing the Worm­sloe Plantation’s Oak Avenue in the morn­ing before I got back on the road home. That was the extent of my plan­ning for Savan­nah, though. After all, the trip was about Washington.

In a way, that worked out rather well for me. As much time as I spend plan­ning, I also like to explore. I like to uncover the inter­est­ing places in a town quite by acci­dent, stum­bling my way down the streets as I look for a decent place to eat (even though I ended up at Five Guys). Savan­nah didn’t dis­ap­point. I only wish I’d been able to get there before sundown.

Savan­nah City Hall was a com­plete sur­prise for me. I knew the city had his­tory, but this was a grand state­ment. The fact that they topped it with gold tells you how much they value that state­ment. Over 100 years old and still val­ued. That’s some­thing I truly admire. Around Orlando, they implode bas­ket­ball are­nas after 20 years because they’re out of date. It’s a sad state of comparison.

Savan­nah is about a four hour drive away from Cen­tral Florida. That could make for an inter­est­ing trip to go shoot the sun­set, have a nice din­ner, and then ride back home in the thick of night.

Who wants to go?

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  • Rachael Lev­asseur

    Me, me, me!!!
    Thanks for mak­ing the full post read­able from the email :D I pre­fer to read it there… Though your new site doesn’t crash my browser, yay!

    • http://www.orlandolocal.com William Beem

      Some folks like to put just a snip­pet in the email so you have to click the link and come to the site. It’s sup­posed to raise traf­fic num­bers. How­ever, I don’t like it when I sub­scribe to an email ser­vice and I don’t get the con­tent in the email. That’s why I made sure the full post is read­able with the email I sent.

      If you ever see some­thing change where you just get part of a post and have to click to come here, let me know. It means I prob­a­bly screwed up something.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tiggi.lee Lee McCarthy

    I’d love to go!
    I really like your new site. Although I do read the daily updates on my email with my morn­ing cof­fee, I still like to pop over here for a good look a few times a week.

    • http://www.orlandolocal.com William Beem

      I’m glad you have the option to visit or just check out the email posts. One of the things I need to do is get a cus­tom email tem­plate that looks bet­ter than the one I have now. Just so much to do and only so many hours in a day.