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Monthly Archives: January 2012
.jpg) A brief web search for “RIP Rick James Van” reveals that this van seems to live on the lower east side, which is where I found it. I also took some shots from the sidewalk side, but even with my most wide-angle lens (14mm) I couldn’t quite get the whole van in the picture, which…
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.jpg) The Chelsea Wine Cellar is a liquor store that advertises its wide selection of specialty and boutique wines. I was mostly interested in the neon sign, set off against the health food store awning next door. How was your weekend? I had a nice quiet 2 days with family, and also managed to get out…
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.jpg) One of the reasons I rarely do panoramas isI just never think of them. Another is that they are easy to do, but hard to do well. A third is that more than 98-99% of my images are viewed only on computers, which is a less than ideal way to see a panorama. Yesterday when…
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 If you are connected to me on social media like Twitter or Google Plus, then you might have already seen this earlier today. I was very lucky this morning in that I picked the perfect winter day to get up early and head out to Coney island. Reasonably warm, beautiful sky and light. I shot mostly…
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.jpg) If you’re going to go out there with your hair, you might as well go all the way. If you’re getting a mohawk, might as well also get the red highlights and matching scarf. Tweet
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 These Fort Tryon arches are certainly catnip for a photographer like me, and I took additional shots from the other side looking in as well as inside them before I made my way here. This view is actually less interesting, I think, than the others, except for the very sparsely decorated Christmas tree to the…
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.jpg) Continuing my occasional series of subway station shots, this one actually features a crowd of people. It also happens to be my regular every day commuting station where I work. I took this while waiting for my train home, of another set of people waiting for their trains home. The train on the far platform…
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.jpg) When I can’t look at you and You can’t look at me, I’m not certain If we’re tired of each Other or just tired. Tweet
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 I messed this roll up 17 ways ’til Tuesday. I meant to shoot as a 16 image roll, but shot 12. Even then, somehow managed to get only 10 shots. I meant to use the sky in the first shot as a background for a double exposure but didn’t. I had the camera set to…
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.jpg) This is the Landmark Theatre in Downtown Syracuse, which just reopened on November 18, 2011 after a major renovation and expansion that cost $16 million. Originally opened in 1928 and known as the Loew’s State Theatre, the lobby of the theater was renovated and restored in 2000. This time they expanded and improved the stage area and…
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 Two days ago I got my film back from the Google+ Photowalk in Astoria Queens last Saturday, and I noticed a small theme that I had unconsciously developed during the walk. I’ll post the individual images later, but I thought they worked well as a unit. These were shot on a Minolta CLE rangefinder (circa…
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.jpg) Last August Pittsburgh based photographer Dave DiCello came to NYC, and he and I got together for a photo walk on a hot Saturday afternoon. I took only my film camera, and although I finished the roll about a month later, I never got the film developed until this week. Dave published some images from…
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.jpg) It’s the gate that caught my eye. I probably should have also shot the building to the left. The plaque honors William M. Beauchamp for being the “Historian of the Iriquois.” The building is the Central New York Telephone and Telegraph Building, being the first building in Syracuse built to house the telephone company in 1899. It…
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.jpg) This is the Palisades, the Hudson River, Henry Hudson Parkway, and George Washington Bridge, taken from Fort Tryon Park, with a sort of high key washed out look on the horizon in the distance. The highway below was remarkably free of traffic on New Year’s Day morning. It was nearly 9am, but I guess everybody was…
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.jpg) Back in November I suggested I had an idea for a photo series, but it was too intimidating to truly consider. It was simply to get a shot of every station in the NY subway system. Depending on who is counting and when, there is some number of stations slightly greater than 420 in the…
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.jpg) The cube, which is only a few years old, underwent renovations that concluded a couple of months ago. The cube used to be made up of many small glass panels, and is now composed of much larger glass panels, leading to a much cleaner look. There are not as many reflections, but you can still create some…
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