A few recent shots. The first is not at night, but early morning, walking through Point State Park off the eastern side of Route 279, facing east-northeast. The Wyndham Hotel is in the (sort of) center, the Batman-cowl looking building on on its right is PPG Place. The gray-striped building I believe are the Gateway Condominiums. Doesn’t look like many people there have woken up yet. The street running laterally is Commonwealth Place. 
PNC Park, where the Pirates played the Walgreens Nationals. They’re the Washington team but their logo looks way too much like the Walgreens logo. It’s not a new park; it opened in 2001. We didn’t see a lot of it but it was nicely designed as far as I can tell.
The bright yellow bridge in front is the Roberto Clemente. The tall brown building in the center is not the UPMC Building but the USX/U.S. Steel Tower (UPMC is their biggest occupants). I had worked in there for a good decade or so, not for UPMC. Fun little thing happened during the game, with the “PIRATES” bushes in the back of the stadium: one of the Nationals hit a home run that landed right in the middle of the “A.” Kind of a Chad way to land a home run against the home team, if you think about it.
The building I work in now is within that cluster of buildings on the right, if you look to the right of the K&L Gates and EQT buildings. It’s the dark, reflective one, and there’s actually a PNC sign at the top but it’s hard to see unless you enlarge the image to 100%. The official name is Two PNC but colloquially it’s the PNC Tech Tower since it was refurbished in 2019 to support all of our technology groups. You can tell from the photos on that site that the decor and layout is very modern. Despite being a strong introvert, I’ve grown to appreciate the open address office dynamic over the walled cubicle approach.
The same shot as above, but at night, before the game ended. Was kind of hoping the lights on the downtown buildings would show up, but the stadium lights were obviously the star of the show:
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Night time photography, especially with extra bright stadium lights, is really difficult. Maybe someday consumer camera software will get better at handling it, because only the most expensive professional ones do it well right now. Good stuff, Jay.
Maybe we need a few more UFO/UAP crashes so we can retro engineer their tech, before than happens 🙂 I had a friend at an old job that was half-convinced that’s how we got laser technology. This was when X-Files was big so I think that inspired him.