Category Archives: Night 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...   It is not unusual to see a box truck with graffiti on it, but this is a somewhat extreme example. It’s like a small piece of traveling Urbex. In this instance, it was parked among office towers at the edge of the Rockefeller Center complex. It is also another example of why I love carrying...  I took this just before getting into position for yesterday’s image. The people a watching a light display, with music, on Saks Fifth Avenue. You can imagine how enchanting it must have been to get all of these people — all or most of whom came to see the tree — to turn away and look...  Sometimes I feel foolish all the times I admit that I notice a photographic element only when I review the image at home, and had no sense of it when composing in the field. This is another example. I carefully composed to get the tree in the image, obviously, but also I specifically remember that...  This is, of course, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, shot from behind a toy solder statue and through a row of golden flags being blown by the wind. By the way, if you’re visiting this page on the day it is posted, December 27, 2011, go to the Bing.com home page. It is featuring a photo...  It’s almost here. Last work day of the year for me. Merry Christmas. Happy Hannukah. Tweet  So this is the same star as yesterday: the star, or snowflake, above 57th Street and Fifth Avenue. This time I’m standing on Fifth Avenue just above 56th Street and looking uptown. I’m not sure why but I had all kinds of trouble getting a black and white image I was happy with. I made...  This truly is facing East, or as near as you can get with Manhattan’s street grid. For as long as I can remember this star (some call it a snowflake) has hovered over the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street every December, and though quite simple, it has always been one of my favorite...  I walked up to the Fifth Avenue Apple Store Cube last night wondering (1) whether the cube and Apple symbol would be decorated for Christmas in any way, and (2) whether I could manage to get a shot of it that was in some way unique. The answer to the first question was “no,” although...  Last December and January confronted New York with some of the most long-running bitter cold I can remember. So far, this year has been a most pleasant contrast. I saw this late bloomer in the park as I walked home about 10 days ago and stopped to grab a shot with the x100. Not bad...  This was built in 1932, and originally known as the Niagara Hudson building. Within a few years the name switched to Niagara Mohawk. Now owned by National Grid, the name plate over the doors still says Niagara Mohawk, which was the nation’s largest electric utility company when this building opened. There is also a Niagara...  I had a great Thanksgiving weekend. In addition to wonderful time with my family, I made about 1,200shutter actuations. Some were in bursts, and a good deal more were in brackets, so I do not have that same number os unique images to review and process, but there are a lot. A good number of...  You might recognize this Post office if you were a fan of Seinfeld. Cooper Station on Fourth Avenue is the Post Office whose exterior was used in the episode in which Newman charges Jerry with a mail insurance scam and brings him in for questioning. The iomage demonstrates a common white balance issue: if you...  Fourth Avenue is only six blocks long in Manhattan, connecting Cooper Square to Union Square. It has a variety of interesting elements, but none quite like this. This is the Grace Church School and Houses, on Fourth Avenue. Grace Church itself is on the other side of the school, on Broadway, and dates back as...  This is from one month ago. It was just about a week and a half ago that evenings were still warm and comfortable for sitting outside. Winter is coming. Tweet  I have mentioned this tip before, but it is worth repeating. If you are shooting through a chain link fence, or similar obstruction, try opening the aperture on your lens as wide as possible (assuming you have that control available to you). Then place your camera right up against the fence, and the fence wires...  Being a New York City based photographer, I could approach New York, New York Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in one of two ways: as a second rate copycat abomination to be avoided at all costs, or as an opportunity for fun. In truth, I think it is one of the most...  The “Tribute In Light” ran only one night this year: last night, the evening of the anniversary, from dusk to dawn this morning. I had been hoping it would run some evening in advance of the anniversary, so I could post an image of it yesterday, but they only lit the beams briefly a few...  Here’s another shot, of a neon liquor store sign on Sixth Avenue, from the Inaugural Google+ NYC Photowalk in NYC. This was getting towards the end of the walk and we were losing the light. That’s when it becomes most impossible to resist a neon sign. Tweet  |
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