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Monthly Archives: October 2012 It seems whenever I have a photo of the Seagram Building, the same themes emerge. I’m not a fan of mid-century metal and glass architecture, but I love this building that arguably spawned the style, and I’m not a fan of some of the pieces they temporarily install on its beautifully simple plaza. Tweet  Here are a few more images from the Greenpoint World Wide Photo Walk I led. The first gallery is here. Tweet .jpg) This is a statue of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, or La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre, located in St. Mary’s Church in Yonkers, NY, also known as the Church of the Immaculate Conception, and the subject of numerous previous photos on this blog. A fair account of the story behind this vision… .jpg) This is where Lexington Avenue ends, at Gramercy Park. If you pass around the park and continue on the same line, you end up on Irving Place. That’s the Chrysler Building standing taller than everything in the right distance, roughly one mile away. Tweet  Yesterday morning I woke up in time for sunrise and spent it on the Grand Avenue Bridge, which is quite a small bridge spanning Newtown Creek. As far as the Creek runs, it serves as the border between Brooklyn and Queens, so I had one foot in each borough while taking this shot, so to… .jpg) In addition to carrying my Nikon D7000, I also shot a roll of Fuji Velvia film using my Contax G2. Some the the subjects and even framing overlap with images from the D7000 I already put up here, but here is a sample off the film shots I took. Tweet  I carefully titled this post not to call it “The Greenpoint Water Tower.” The Water Tower that holds that distinction can be seen featured here and is also visible but not featured on the right side of this image here. I do not know why so many water towers in Greenpoint are elevated above the rooftops,…  I shot this and am posting it here for the sheer “what the heck?!” of it. This scene presented itself during Saturday’s photowalk in Greenpoint. Nobody on the walk had any real clue what this was. Well, obviously it’s a bale of colorful paper falling apart on the sidewalk, but none of us have ever… .jpg) I never heard of cold brewed coffee until I saw this sign. I looked it up and it seems interesting enough that I’m probably going to give it a try. On top of that, it’s a local product, made in Brooklyn, although I have no idea if this is the location of the plan or… .jpg) This comes from the World Wide Photo Walk gathering I led in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on Saturday. I think this is from some sort of sculpture workshop, but I don’t really know. The surreal black and white negative treatment seems to do it the most good. Tweet .jpg) It’s odd that one of the most consistently photogenic Liquor Store signs in Manhattan now sits on a J Crew Men’s Clothing store. This is the third time it’s shown up here on the blog. The previous appearances are here and here. Tweet  This was pretty hard to line up. The organ loft is not that big, and there was not much room to place the tripod, and then get my head behind the camera to see how things looked. It actually came out rather askew, and I had to fix it as best as I could in…  Anybody who has ever watched American football knows what I’m talking about. A team scores a touchdown, but misses the extra point. For the rest of the game the announcers will warn us that the missed attempt is either likely to “loom large” later on, or knowingly assure us that it is “looming large.” It… .jpg) Lately my processing mode on these urbex images is to push things out there with some extreme filters, and then pull them back almost to normal before I’m done. That’s what happened here — I added some extreme tones and colors, only to remove most of what I added in later steps. The funny thing… .jpg) I need to find out how the Macro mode works on the Fuji x100. It does not have a macro lens built in, but when you activate Macro mode it does an astonishingly good job of focusing up close. This is another flower from the gardens at Mohonk Mountain House. Tweet .jpg) I’m generally following a schedule of one Grey Man per week. This is the second one this week to make up for the lack of one last week during my brief hiatus. The Grey Man is a textualist. If you don’t want people walking in the bus lanes, say so. Tweet 
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