Category Archives: Cities I went back into my archives for this one, looking for something for the Film Friday and Plastic Lens Friday photo themes on Google Plus.* This is a shot of the Apple Store Cube on Fifth Avenue, taken with the first roll I shot on my Diana F+ plastic camera, and also taken before the...   This is another in my occasional series of New York City Subway Stations – here showcasing the West 8th Street – New York Aquarium Station near Coney Island, Brooklyn. The station is somewhat unusual in that it serves two separate elevated lines, one over the other. This is the lower of the two and there...  Walking along River Street in Hoboken, I came across this subtle bit of neon advertising for Hoboken Cigars, and was immediately drawn to its studied, understated cool. You can see me and my tripod reflected in the bottom center window. While I do not mind it here, I wish there were a magic tool that would allow...  If this scene looks familiar to regular visitors, that’s because it is the same exact point of view as this image from just a few weeks ago. In fact they were taken the same morning, with this shot coming at the end of the same excursion as I circled back to where I started, but...  Walton Street is a short, two-block stretch in downtown Syracuse with a lot of restored buildings and pretty shops, but that is not what I chose to shoot that morning. This is a loading dock, I guess. There is a great ghost sign above, but I cut it off because “Hurbson Office Equipment” did not...  For better or worse, this shot speaks for itself in its simplicity, so I’ll let it do so. Tweet  An empty parking lot in downtown Hoboken, NJ last Sunday morning. I did what would you might call light tonemapping (as opposed to heavy tonemapping) to partially even out the diference between the shadow area in the bottom left and the brighter area in the top right. The saturation is dropped about 40%, except for the sky...  According to the mural, “Mom” passed in 2009, and my web research indicates that the “M&M Variety Hardware” store closed sometime between fall 2010 and fall 2011. The “In Memory of Mom” moral on the roll down gate was done by local muralist Chico, who also does a rotating series of murals on the wall...  This is one of the smaller streets in Manhattan, just one block long and fairly narrow. Mosco Street was formerly known as Cross Street. It was longer than it is today, and was part of the infamous “Five Points” intersection and neighborhood once notoriously known for riots, criminal gangs, and infectious diseases. Today, Mosco Street feels...  I took this picture because of one thing — the simple unaffected translation of the name of the restaurant. “El Sombrero,” or, “The Hat Restaurant.” Tweet  Bondi Road is a restaurant with an Australian surfer dude theme and a lot of sea food on the menu. I presume the store below the Underwear sign once sold underwear. This is Rivington Street on the Lower East Side about a block from the Williamsburg Bridge. Tweet  I was drawn to this ramp down to Track 38 because it seems a bit unusual for being so narrow and tight. Many of the other Grand Central Terminal ramps don’t even have walls, just railings. Tweet  The ramp leading up on the right serves an entrance at the corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue. the doors straight ahead lead to a walkway to the Grand Central Subway Station. This section of the Terminal might have a name but I do not know what it is. At the far end of...  Back in the day, when train travel was the way to get around the country, Grand Central Terminal was much more than a commuter railroad terminal. The 20th Century Limited, running between New York and Chicago, was quite possibly the most famous train in the world, and certainly the most famous and elegant in the United...  With the Coney Island Series wrapped up, it’s time to return to Grand Central Terminal, for another week of shots taken early on a Sunday morning using Ilford HP5 Plus black and white film pushed to 1600 ISO. It’s roughly impossible to get a shot of this room empty, and this is nearly as close...  As I come to the end of the Coney Island winter series, I still have some images I think are usable but I also continue to think I’ve about spent the time that should be devoted to them on the blog. I’m considering an ebook, but distribution and e-commerce get complicated quick. Free distribution is...  If you take the subway to Coney Island, you can get off either here at the Aquarium stop or at the Coney Island terminal two blocks down. As this stop comes first, I would expect that many impatient travelers would get off the train here, and if you’re on this end of the train platform,...  The New York Aquarium is located in Coney Island, and the subway stop is only a couple of long blocks from the Coney Island Terminal Station I showed earlier, although the entrance and structure is a lot less imposing. What caught my eye here were the shadow patterns on the steps. Tweet  Stillwell Avenue, at the heart of Coney Island. That’s Nathan’s barely visible on the extreme right edge of the frame. Across the street is a row of new storefronts that lie empty. Whether they have tenants lined up for the start of the season I do not know. A few short years ago there was...  |
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