Category Archives: Parks I know I’ve written the story of this morning earlier, but it’s really the most relevant and interesting thing I have to say about this image: it was New Year’s Day and a gorgeous, mild morning at that. I had planned to get up in time to shoot the year’s first sunrise, which actually is...   I played with easily a half dozen variations of this – black and white, darker blues, more reds, etc., and finally settled on this, after I added the yellow tones in the trees. This is the Lake in Central Park, taken from the 72nd Street transverse looking northwest. Happy Mothers Day to all the wonderful...  It is possible that my earliest memory is from the World’s Fair, which ran in 1964 and 1965, when I was 2 and 3. I remember that my family went, and left me home, probably with an aunt. I believe they also might have taken one of my cousins. What I remember was that...  I previously showed these arches in Fort Tryon Park, but from the other side where you could not see the George Washington Bridge. As cool as these arches are to look at and to contemplate photographing, I had a tough time getting a composition and angle I liked. Tweet  The lower Manhattan skyline from Brooklyn Bridge Park. There was a dramatic sky that morning — the weather was beautiful but the sky and clouds looked as if a great storm was brewing — and that sky combined with the tilt-shift lens created a rather surreal look to many of my shots. Tweet  There it is. That moment. That exact moment. It’s why I get up so damn early on a Saturday. Sunrise on the beach, Coney Island. Happy Friday all, and thanks for all the comments, visits, support and feedback. Tweet  I love the colors I got from simple Kodak 400 Gold film. They do seem just a bit off somehow, maybe a bit too much purple in the sky, but I love them nonetheless. The Coney Island Boardwalk is mostly, but not completely deserted, on a winter morning in January 2012. Tweet  I’m struck by how small the base of the Parachute Jump tower is. If you’re looking for other great images or photography related web links, head on over to Lightstalking and check out their weekly roundup of photography links that gets published every Friday. Tweet  The one week break from all film all-the-time i sover, and it’s time to load up another 3 weeks of film shots from Coney Island and Grand Central. as you can see, this week will again feature black and white shots from Coney island. Tweet  I didn’t tell my collaborators, but I had second thoughts about selecting this image for our project almost as soon as I offered it. It’s a fine image I’m proud of, but it only gets marginal benefit out of an HDR treatment, and I was not sure it would lend itself to very many varied...  Photograph of the Eldorado Arcade sign at Coney Island, taken with a Diana F+ plastic lens camera and cross-processed Velvia 100 slide film. “El Dorado” is Spanish for “the golden one” and refers to a legendary “lost city of gold” somewhere in the new world. Why this arcade combined “El” and “Dorado” into one...  This week I’m going to feature cross-processed shots from my winter morning trip to Coney Island. I showed a few in this post, where I went into the details of cross processing, and the tricks for scanning cross processed images, but since then I acquired a scanning mask that let’s me th scan the part...  I know it’s too urban, with the asphalt, parking meters and institutional apartment buildings, but otherwise this is what I imagine Area 51 would look like. A giant old fashioned radio tower that somehow looks a little weird, a big radio dish next to it, and a field lit with flood lights. Nearby, a pickup truck with a...  You can see some flaws in the scan alignment here: sprocket holes on top and an edge of another image to the left. This would be, of course, the easiest type of problem to correct with a simple crop, but I decided to keep them here, just, well, because. The main element here is of...  This is the souvenir stand next to the Cyclone roller coaster at Coney Island. As with all other images in the series, it was taken with real film, early on a Saturday morning in January. Having just been to Disney World last week, the parallels and contrast stands out for me here. Every Disney ride has an associated...  This is the exterior front of the Dreamland Roller Rink. As far as I can tell, it is currently closed (not just for the season) and unlikely to open. A very cool building that I think is unlikely to survive long,so I’m glad I was able to capture it. You can see the light towers...  The fenced off amusement park rides are the most modern and well maintained features at Coney Island, even though most of them have an inherently retro look that reminds you of decades past. There’s also something unsettling about their painted cheer when you see them put aside and unused for the off-season. I’m not certain,...  Here is some evidence of renewal, as to the right you can see that a section of the the Coney Island boardwalk is being rebuilt. But it’s still a bit sad that the only major construction is of an open space. I did not see any evidence of new construction at any of the empty lots. This...  One of the ideas I found myself playing with as I shot these images, was how it was hard to tell the difference between places that were closed for the winter, and those that were closed for good. Some are obvious. This Coney Island ticket booth and the rides behind it appear very likely to...  One of my inspirations, or perhaps motivations, for this photo series and project is that Coney Island is changing and much of its physical history is disappearing. In fact, from what I have read, much of it is already gone. There is substantial controversy about the area’s redevelopment, and to the extent there might be shady dealings,...  |
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