Monthly Archives: May 2011 I’d say don’t try this at home, but you need to be out of your home in order to be tempted to do it. Plus, I think I was stopped at the moment I took this, with the light having just flipped to green. Anyway, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. This is...   I happened to be walking in Bushwick a little over a week ago when I came across this memorial in a small plot of lank known as Heisser Triangle, formed by the three intersection of Knickerbocker Avenue, Myrtle Avenue and Bleecker Street. This is a shot I took and shared with the Instagram App on my...  This is the final installment of my elevated M Train series. I rode the last leg of the trip between the Fresh Pond Road station and the Metropolitan Avenue station heading home. On a Sunday afternoon, pretty much all of the cars except for the front two were empty, because everybody getting off at the...  This is te next to last entry in the series. I had to ride the M train to its last stop to get home, because as I mentioned earlier, between here and the last stop it crosses a lot of inaccessible ground. In order to get home, I either had to ride, or walk a...  This was taken from the exact same spot as yesterday’s image, with just a slight change of direction and focus. The DEP is the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, and I have no idea what this item is doing here, or how it is protecting the environment, but here it is. I’m trying...  We are coming to the end of this series. In fact, while i have a fewb more images to publish from that outing, this is the last shot of the elevated tracks from that day, showing where the M Train crosses Fresh Pond Road, emerging between a Subway sandwich shop and a local pizza joint....  Here again is the M Train elevated subway bisecting a small residential street in Ridgewood, Queens. I went for a somewhat unreal noir look on this shot, just to add some variety to this series. Tweet  The path on the left, in between the houses and the fenced-in alley under the subway, is listed on maps as Kneupfel Court, apparently a fully public street (or at least right-of-way). I didn’t test that, mostly because it did not appear to go all the way through to the next block. The street...  And so, after a hiatus, we resume our trip under the last leg of the elevated subway M train line in Ridgewood, Queens. This is underneath the Forest Avenue station. Because the line is coming out of an alleyway and is not running under a road, I’m able to set up centered under the tracks without blocking...  I like this image, but it demonstrates the limitation of a Gorillapod, as I think this image would be better if the camera were at least a few feet higher. Still, the kit for this image, which was the Gorillapod, the Nikon D700, and Nikon’s 24mm prime f/2.8 lens is a reasonably mobile set of gear. This...  Late post today, so I’m rushing this out a bit. This is, of course, the Guggenheim Museum taken somewhat early on a Sunday morning. Played with the colors for a long time and can no longer tell exactly what it should look like. Sometimes you’re better off taking your first adjustment and running with it...  I neglected to note the name of this business, but it appears to be a boutique called Mick Margo on Commerce Street in the West Village. If I’m wrong, my apologies to both Mick Margo and whatever establishment this is. I just liked the windows. Tweet  In a way, this is the same picture as yesterday taken with a very different lens. yesterday was taken with the Tamron 28-300, today with the Nikkor 24mm PC-E. The Empire State Building is way back there, about one-third of the way in from the right. Last Day To Buy My Book Before the...  The top of the Empire State Building, taken from Brooklyn Bridge park, peeking under the bridge itself, which is hovering unseen above the frame. Other than that, this doesn’t need much commentary, so on to other business. Three items. Two Days To Buy My Book Before the Price Increase Blurb is raising prices on May...  James Lileks was the first person I noticed who collected pictures of these sort of ads and called them Ghost Signs. For those of you unfamiliar with James, he is mostly a writer (Minneapolis based), but he also takes some photos, and collects and displays all sorts of 20th Century memorabilia – advertisements, magazines, and...  These are the front doors to the Millinery Center Synagogue. I wanted to write a paragraph or two about this place, but this post is late and I’m tired from a busy morning. Maybe I will update it later. I should also note that I have placed this in the category “Churches,” and I realize...  I took this yesterday on Sixth Avenue, and when I loaded it off the SD card it was oriented this way. I righted it, and processed it, but I kept thinking of how it looked sideways, especially the fire escape. So I switched it back. Tweet  I figured I might as well finish out the working week with one more Walt Disney Concert Hall study. Rather than pratter on about this, here are two unrelated notes: First, a link to a collection of 25 abandoned monuments from the former Yugoslavia. I tweeted this yesterday but tweets are so ephemeral. It would be really...  Almost seems like cheating to keep coming back to this building, but I just love the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Not an abstract this time, but I do like the criss-crossing lines, curves, and patterns. I went with a negative treatment again because it was the only way to display both the interior of the lobby and...  |
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