Monthly Archives: July 2011 Another infrared of the Whitestone Bridge taken from Powell’s Cove in College Point in Queens. The first image, also infrared and from the same location, is here. I wish I knew how I managed to achieve the yellow colors in the wood and tree leaves. I know what I did. I simply made a white...   If you look at the google map satellite view from above, you can see that this appears to be a fake front placed on a plain square building. Without any signage, it appears unfinished. Tweet  In the foreground is the American radiator Building, now the Bryant Park Hotel. It is the subject of the famous Georgia O’Keefe painting, “Radiator Building—Night, New York.” Looking over its shoulder from approximately a quarter mile is, of course, the Empire State Building. This was taken from Bryant Park, which sits behind the New...  Flipping a an infrared photograph from red to blue tones is easy. Getting those blue tones to a pleasing hue is hard, at least for me. I’m very pleased with the result here, but I do not think this particular mix would transfer well tomost shots. Tweet  This reminds me of those European folk tales where there is a deceptively cozy cottage situated inexplicably in the middle of a brooding forest, except the cottage is a dual-towered apartment building. And I don’t know whether if you went to this building, would you find a witch, a wolf, an imp, a dwarf, a...  The support posts on the Golden Gate Bridge have all the numbers,* but I shot this one because it seemed to represent the city, but then I also remembered that it matched my upcoming birthday, which is today. *Well, not to infinity, but you know what I mean. Tweet  You never know where you will find love, or where it will find you. Still, this doorway seems an odd place for it. This is in lens tilt-shift, with the only major processing being additional detail, contrast, and a slight saturation boos, all to the door only. Tweet  I’m pretty sure this car is the cousin of the red 250 SL classic Mercedes I featured here and here, but I forgot to make a note of exactly what model this is, so I cannot be specific. It was a sort of non-descript off-white, cream, eggshell color, so after trying various color-processed options, the...  Just a street of townhouses on the Upper East Side on a Sunday morning. This is all about the architecture, lights, and shadows. Tweet  There are no Checker taxicabs still functioning as working taxis in New York City. The Checker Taxi Company went out of business in 1982, and I remember as soon as 5-6 years later it became hard to find a checker cab when hailing a cab in the city. There were a handful that held on...  As cranes go, these are not so tall. I presume they are available for rent, but either way they look rather cute all lined up in their crane yard here in Queens. Tweet  Not much to say here. The scene pretty much speaks for itself, and the processing was simple with an obvious saturation boost. This is on 11th Avenue — more from my outing on Sunday with Chris Robins. It’s hot out there so stay cool, kids. Tweet  The Movie Inceptionhas been on HBO a lot lately, so I have rewatched it a few times. As it has done with a lot of other photographers, it crept into my thought process while working on my photographs. But instead of going with the tilted, imposing skyscrapers as those photographers did in those particular shots,...  I spent yesterday morning with new friend Chris Robins, an avid photographer and fine gentleman who hopes soon to have his own photography website up and running. We shot a fairly brief section of 11th Avenue, less than 10 blocks really, and spent nearly 4 hours doing so. As you might imagine, it was a target rich...  Powell’s Cove Park is billed as an “environmental waterfront park completed in 1999, … a bay with sizable wetlands and filled, undeveloped uplands.” The majority of the park consists of submerged marshlands. There is not much to it, but it has an awesome view of the Whitestone Bridge and the Bronx. This is true infrared taken...  I’m no engineer, but as I understand suspension bridges, this one cable and its partner on the other side basically hold the entire bridge roadway up. Tweet  There’s a lot on this wall in small parking lot in SoHo, but my eye keeps getting drawn back to the Spy vs Spy characters in the center, and the torn poster at the top left. Tweet  This is the Queensboro Bridge, obviously at night, from a spot just north of the bridge on the Manhattan side. The bright, squat rectangular building on the opposite side is the terminal building for the Roosevelt Island Tram. Beyond the buildings you see on the far shore, which is Roosevelt Island and not Queens, is...  After taking this image looking north on Greenwich Street, I turned my camera around and took this one looking the other way. I purposefully chose not to look at the first image before editing this one, so they are sort of non-identical twins. Repeat Announcement: I’m Taking Requests As I first mentioned yesterday, I’ve decided...  |
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