Category Archives: NY Scenes 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...   This strikes me as a quintessential NY scene: a Queens barber shop promising Brooklyn flavor, and the sedan with the flags adds an extra touch. It isn’t my most exciting photo, but I think it captures something true. It’s a shame that the parking sign is right in front of the awning, but sometimes that’s...  For better or worse, this shot speaks for itself in its simplicity, so I’ll let it do so. Tweet  The NFL draft starts this evening and these folks were lined up outside Radio City Music Hall last night, waiting to get wristbands that allows them entry tonight. I like football, but find that watching the draft is less interesting than watching paint that’s already dry. Obviously these folks disagree. I hope they’re all happy...  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...  Coming off the Manhattan Bridge, he managed to slide his cab in between the box truck and the white van while next to the park. Turning on to Broome, he figured if he could hold this position into the Holland Tunnel entrance he might just stop their plan. Tweet  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  I pulled this one from the archives. It’s about 2 years old and I don’t know what to say about it. The scene pretty much speaks for itself and I don’t have anything to add in the way of history or insight. The partially destroyed mural is a mystery to me. Processing was straightforward, except...  I’m not sure where to begin, there is so much I found interesting in this image. So I’ll start big picture, so to speak. First, I found the mural interesting, but I am trying to rely less upon just photographing someone else’s public art, whether an official mural or graffiti. I am also fascinated by bicycles...  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  That’s a somewhat unusual double-decker elevated subway straight ahead. You can see a train passing through on the lower elevated level. Tweet  Grand Central Terminal was once a major point of arrival and departure for nationwide travel. It now functions mostly as a regional and largely commuter rail service. The two main lines leaving the terminal are the Harlem Line (North and East) and the Hudson Line (North and West). What’s that? Would you like to see...  You do not see phone banks ver much any more, not even in hotels or similar venues. But there are a few of them in Grand Central Terminal. Tweet  A new week begins a new series, this one showing mostly small scenes from Grand Central Terminal (with a few from the Grand Central Station subway stop). All were shot in black and white, using a Minolta CLE, and Ilford HP5+ 400 film pushed to 1600 ISO. All were taken on a Sunday morning. The...  So I think I have the next four weeks of posts here all planned out, which is unusual for me. As I’ve mentioned, if not comprehensively, two weekends ago I shot several rolls of film. Saturday morning at Coney Island, Sunday morning in and around Grand Central. Juggling 3 cameras, I shot color, black and...  The deeper I get into film, the more I need to use digital post-processing tools. These pictures could almost have been taken in 1968. I used a plastic Diana F+ camera. I also used slide film, and instructed the lab to cross process it. That means using the process and chemicals used to develop...  This Astoria Water Tower was shot during the Google Plus New York Photowalkers outing in Astoria a few weeks ago. I’ve shot several more film rolls since then and I’m waiting t get most of them back from processing. While I’m certainly not going to limit myself, I do think I am going to devote...  |
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