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Monthly Archives: January 2013 Sometimes the purpose of my image title is to push you to look for elements you might not have noticed, and this is one such case. I’m also having something of a black and white week here. With one day to go I have not decided whether to keep t up or to break the pattern. Tweet  I sat on this for almost one and a half years, because every time I looked at it I thought the idea behind it was stronger than the actual image itself. Last night that seemed to change, and I’m not sure why. This is a section of the New York by Gehry residential tower in…  I feel almost as if I just channelled Jim Denham: some snow, a fence, a bleak winter landscape, and a black and white treatment. It’s actually quite a beautiful scene. Friday night the NYC area got just enough snow to make everything pretty without really getting in the way. Perhaps my favorite element of…  This is another item from the Star Wars Angry Birds play set my daughter received for Christmas. This is the Rancor monster, famously appearing in Jabba’s cave in Return of the Jedi. Since Angry and Rancor are not quite, but pretty close to synonyms, I stumbled with what to name this: Rancor Bird, Angry Rancor, Rancry…  You might notice sharpness issues if you look closely, but I like this enough anyway to go ahead and use it. In addition to needing to overcome that obstacle, I also found this to be a surprising challenge in getting the black and white conversion to a satisfactory point. What I like about this…  Now that is a solid, imposing door, fronting the Federal Reserve Bank of New York which is a fortress-like structure taking up an entire three-sided block bounded by Nassau Street, Liberty Street and Maiden Lane in downtown Manhattan. In a very loose sense, the Federal reserve, of which this is one of 12…  Dedicated in 1991, the New York Korean War Veteran’s Memorial, commemorating what has often been called “The Forgotten War,” predates the one on the National Mall by four years. The silhouette cut into the 15 feet of black granite is known as the “Universal Soldier.” The flags below represent the countries that participated in the…  I get the sense I’ve spent a lot of time discussing areas and issues in which I am uninspired or in a rut lately. Here is one thing I never tire of — the play of morning sunlight on the windows of a building. Tweet  Sometimes you get lucky. The camera wasn’t level, which is an all-too common problem of mine. It seems no matter how I try to remember to address that basic issue in the field, I end up with at least a few shots from every outing where I forgot to pay attention. This was one of…  This is a small stained glass window in St. Mary’s Church (aka Immaculate Conception Church] in Yonkers, NY. Unlike most stained glass, this is completely an interior window. One side faces the main great room of the Church, and the other is in a vestibule leading to the side chapel and an outside door. Because…  I don’t remember it being quite this blue. Everything was more of a murky, desaturated grey. Unfortunately every attempt to color correct this image looked even more wrong. I tried various methods, and everything ended up making it warmer, which seemed no better. Hmm. The very act of writing this up gave me an idea….  Keeping the corner completely in shadow was a choice. I had brighter exposures that I kept out of the merged image to create this look. Is there a point to using the HDR technique if you are going to keep that corner completely in shadow? I think so. Without merging multiple bracketed exposures into an HDR…  I feel bad for Ron Weasley. While I think the author and movie makers treated him with respect, it seems some fans and certainly these toy makers do him an injustice. I redid this and a few other shots after my daughter informed me that this trio of Harry Potter, Ron and Hermione Granger have…  It’s been a few weeks since I posted one of these, and I need to get out and take some more, too. I think I’m running out. In addition, I signed up to do a 52 Week Self-Portrait Project so I’ll be expanding my self-portrait body of work, and hopefully my creativity will undergo a…  I made such a big deal, in my own mind, anyway, about shooting in fog one morning last month and presenting all the photos shortly thereafter, and in doing so I totally forgot that I spent a weekend up in the Mohonk Mountain House last July with some of the heaviest fog I can remember,…  The Bethesda Fountain Plaza and Underpass This is an often photographed subject, including the image shown by me last week and previously in infrared here and here. Shooting from the underpass is in addition a very common view, but one I was obviously unable to resist myself, especially with the opportunity with both the underpass and… 
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