OK, so it was my first shoot with the tilt-shift.  Everyone love the tilt effect, which leaves only a sliver of sharp focus in the image surrounded by pretty off-focus .  The tilt function of these lenses can help correct the leaning inwards effect created by many lenses, especially at wide angles.  Of course, if you shift the lens the wrong direction, the leaning effect gets even more pronounced.  I did that intentionally here, as an experiment, and found that you can fit multiple skyscrapers in one frame at landscape orientation, which is pretty cool. The downside , apart from the distortion, is that with the lens tilted so far off of its normal orientation you have to point the camera almost directly straight up, making it hard to crouch under it and get a good look at what is in the frame, while remaining stable (even with a tripod). The result is the tilted horizon we have here, which I chose not to fix because it messed with the composition too much when I corrected it.

This is Park Avenue, looking east from between 53rd and 54th streets. Some of the buildings in the background are actually on Madison Avenue one block over.  The main tower on the right of the image is Lever House, which I have featured here multiple times before.