Yearly Archives: 2011 This is my first year end review post. I began the blog in October 2009, and in October 2010, I did a one-year anniversary post. Following that with a year-end wrap-up 2.5 months later seemed a bit self-indulgent. So this year, I’m looking back to the last 15 months since that anniversary post, with a...   I took this just before getting into position for yesterday’s image. The people a watching a light display, with music, on Saks Fifth Avenue. You can imagine how enchanting it must have been to get all of these people — all or most of whom came to see the tree — to turn away and look...  Sometimes I feel foolish all the times I admit that I notice a photographic element only when I review the image at home, and had no sense of it when composing in the field. This is another example. I carefully composed to get the tree in the image, obviously, but also I specifically remember that...  Page One Covering the Bronx is here, and contains the full explanation behind the list. Page Two covering Queens is here. In order to ease the loading of each page, I am dividing the list into three pages, one each for the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island. Clicking on any image below will take you...  Page One Covering the Bronx is here, and contains the full explanation behind the list. Page Three covering Staten island is here. In order to ease the loading of each page, I am dividing the list into three pages, one each for the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island. Clicking on any image below will take...  Page Two covering Queens is here. Page Three covering Staten Island is here. The gentleman I credit as my blogfather, Trey Ratcliff, recently created a wonderful new app for the iPad called “Stuck on Earth.” It is officially described as “A new kind of travel app that brings you the best places in the world to visit,...  This is, of course, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, shot from behind a toy solder statue and through a row of golden flags being blown by the wind. By the way, if you’re visiting this page on the day it is posted, December 27, 2011, go to the Bing.com home page. It is featuring a photo...  Christmas decorations outside of 1221 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) between 48th and 49th Street, also known as the McGraw-Hill Building, part of the 1960s era expansion of Rockefeller Center. Tweet  Christmas Eve, and I’m very busy, as I’m sure are you. I’ve toyed with taking a blog vacation for the rest of the year, but I think I’m going to post mostly simple images with brief text accompaniment, while working on some big posts like a year-end retrospective and one other somewhat similar item. This...  It’s almost here. Last work day of the year for me. Merry Christmas. Happy Hannukah. Tweet  So this is the same star as yesterday: the star, or snowflake, above 57th Street and Fifth Avenue. This time I’m standing on Fifth Avenue just above 56th Street and looking uptown. I’m not sure why but I had all kinds of trouble getting a black and white image I was happy with. I made...  This truly is facing East, or as near as you can get with Manhattan’s street grid. For as long as I can remember this star (some call it a snowflake) has hovered over the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street every December, and though quite simple, it has always been one of my favorite...  I walked up to the Fifth Avenue Apple Store Cube last night wondering (1) whether the cube and Apple symbol would be decorated for Christmas in any way, and (2) whether I could manage to get a shot of it that was in some way unique. The answer to the first question was “no,” although...  Just a parking lot, and some rear facing windows on an old building in downtown Syracuse. Tweet  “The Upper Rust” is an antique store on East Ninth Street. It has some interesting window displays, but I was taken with the balconies on the third and fourth floors. Tweet  Another shot from the highway here. I do wish I managed to get it without the pole, but I did end up with a couple of nice golden mean and rule-of-thirds ratios. This is off of Route 17 near Hancock, New York. Tweet  Last December and January confronted New York with some of the most long-running bitter cold I can remember. So far, this year has been a most pleasant contrast. I saw this late bloomer in the park as I walked home about 10 days ago and stopped to grab a shot with the x100. Not bad...  I don’t think they have changed the sign in 30 years. When I first started making the trip downtown to St. Mark’s Place all those years ago, this was usually the reason why: the best independent and used record store in the city. Bleecker Bob’s (which was never on Bleecker) was famous and living off...  Last summer I took a drive up Route 17 for the sole purpose of shooting this and two other abandoned diners along its route. The drive to my in-laws on Thanksgiving Day was my first opportunity to revisit them, even while just speeding by, and see how they stood. As it turned out, I barely...  |
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