Category Archives: Site Business Events prevented me from adding any images to Instagram this week, so instead of selecting something from this week I’ve pick a couple from my archives. In addition, I have a small related announcement, which is that I now have a gallery at Instacanv.as. My gallery is here. As the name implies. Instacanv.as allows people...   I want to start a new photo series, but I’m not yet certain what to call it or how to handle it. I often take surreptitious photos of other riders when I am on the subway, and have occasionally posted some as I did here, here, and here. While a good number of the...  This is my first year end review post. I began the blog in October 2009, and in October 2010, I did a one-year anniversary post. Following that with a year-end wrap-up 2.5 months later seemed a bit self-indulgent. So this year, I’m looking back to the last 15 months since that anniversary post, with a...  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...  I missed my two-year blog anniversary yesterday. I didn’t intend to do anything big, unlike last year for the first anniversary when I built a whole retrospective around it, but I had planned at least to mention it. I’ve just been very busy, mostly with work stuff, and the date slipped my mind. So, today marks my...  Yesterday, one of the nicest, friendliest, supportive, generous and talented people in the blogosphere, photosphere, Twitter, Facebook and G Plus announced he is taking a hiatus, possibly for good, but certainly for a long time. Toad, aka Scott Johnson, aka husband to the lovely Mrs. Toad, is going to have to stop taking photos and... It was a spur of the moment decision this morning. I need a blog break, si I’ll be posting no new images here for a week. Look for my return next Monday. I might, MIGHT, add some archival images to my slowly growing galleries at Google Plus. If I had decided on this earlier, I... No image in this post, but an announcement that I’m leading a World Wide Photo Walk outing in Queens on October 1. You can find the details and sign up here. You can see photos that I have taken from along the neighborhoods covered by the walk here here here here here here and here. Tweet  The trompe l’oeil painting of windows on the side of the building has faded, and is marred by some stupid graffiti, but still has the power to trick your eye sometimes. The mural dates back at least to the early 80s, and it was quite impressive back then. I’ve no idea what it would take...  As best as I can tell, this is a Lids sports cap store that retained the legacy signage from the old cigar store that it displaced. This is a simple black and white treatment via Silver Efex Pro. Now for two bits of site business. First, I feel like I’ve been semi-absent both from here...  Apologies. I consider this almost a retread, because I already posted a different “toy boat” selective focus image from the Jersey City world wide photo walk when I did my initial post immediately after the event. I had planned to process and post an HDR, which I haven’t done in nearly a week. But some...  I’m not planning on making this a series, but I happened to discover a pair of iPhone photo apps two weeks in a row that — as best as I am aware — are not already widely known, at least in my circles. Last week it was WordFoto, and this week it is ToonPAINT –...  OnOne has released an updated demo version of their upcoming product release, Perfect Layers. I’m going to do a follow up post tomorrow, because I used the demo on a photograph last night in Aperture and loved it, but I already had a photo queued up for today, which will go up momentarily. However, I...  Forever The Empty City by Mark Garbowski | Make Your Own Book As promised, I am pleased and excited to announce today that my book, Forever The Empty City: New York City – Vacant: 2009-2011, is now available for purchase at Blurb books. A preview is shown above. This book features my photographs of New York City,...  This is a detail from an apartment building in Western Queens called CityLights at Queens Landing. It was taken in July 2009 from Gantry State Park, which is across the street. I’m not sure what the purpose of the rope lines are. I thought they might have been decorative, but they do not appear to...  I want to thank everyone who responded to my request for site design feedback on yesterday’s post, both in the comments and on Twitter. I’m not going to do anything immediately with the site, and I might just leave it as it is, but I have already made a change to the view you get...  I did not even notice the KISS graffiti until I started processing the image. I’m feeling somewhat contrary today so I’m not going to offer my usual explanation of what this is, although people located in New York or New Jersey will probably figure it out. I had never seen this particular location before, and...  Last week I was walking back to my hotel on the top of Bunker Hill in Los Angeles on South Olive Street. Across the street I noticed a park. Although I couldn’t see the view from the park without crossing the street and entering the park, I was pretty certain that it was the park...  This location which was once the Albra Metal Foundry is now an event space known just as The Foundry. If you watch Top Chef, it was used for this season’s (the All-Star season) Restaurant Wars episode. This is a neighborhood in transition. Blocks that used to be nearly all industrial now have event spaces, hotels,...  I sort of, almost, half-planned, to do a year in review post for 2010 but it just didn’t happen, mostly because I just did an anniversary post for the blog in October. I’m also feeling a bit burned out with some of the social media, self-promotion activities that are ancillary to running a photo blog....  |
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