City Beat Article by Geoffrey Lapid   Ming C. Lowe works hard to get her photos.. She worked extra hard to get the striking moments captured in Shift Change,  her photography exhibition currently showing at the San Diego Maritime Museum. Lowe braved the great heights, shaky laddres and tinker-toy platforms of the San Diego waterfront to get the perfect shot.. "I had vertigo, " she said, "but I didn't tell anyone because I was afraid they'd stop taking me up there."

  Lowe says Shift Change is an examination of the everyday beauty that can be found all around us if we'd only shift our pespectives for a moment. Cold, industrial landscapes become towering cities of gold through Lowe's lens. her photo essay exposes a beauty in the San Diego waterfront that largely goes unnoticed and urges us to stop, for one, and take a look.
   A professional painter, Lowe says the photography exhibition came together almost by accident. She started with her venture into industrial photography with pictures she wanted to use later as reference material for paintings. "I realized, hey, they're very pretty. What am i going to do, sit down and copy them as a painting?" she said. "There was no point because they already existed in a lovely fashion as a photograph.