Category Archives: Water This is the Palisades, the Hudson River, Henry Hudson Parkway, and George Washington Bridge, taken from Fort Tryon Park, with a sort of high key washed out look on the horizon in the distance. The highway below was remarkably free of traffic on New Year’s Day morning. It was nearly 9am, but I guess everybody was...   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...  This is the Queensboro Bridge and Queens, taken from Roosevelt Island, with an orange balloon floating in the water. I really like it when the foreground element in a wide angle landscape shot is very small, but still holds your attention. Tweet  This is the Colgate clock in Jersey City, which lights up quite nicely from the front as can be seen from downtown New York. Tweet  Last Monday I greeted you with a dark tunnel, so this week I thought it appropriate to follow with a more optimistic image to start the week. What could be better than dawn and the Brooklyn Bridge? There are some crazy colors there, which I did not create. They just showed up that morning as...  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...  It has been a while since I went into a fair amount of detail on my processing of an image, and showed the original version. Today’s image inspired me to do so. Even though its processing is not anything extraordinary, it seems to embody right where I am today in terms of landscape processing. The final...  Irene came and went with limited impact, and we live in a world filled with beauty. The Roosevelt Island Bridge on a Saturday morning about 2 weeks ago. Happy Monday, good morning, and welcome to the working week. Tweet  This is the Queensboro Bridge from directly underneath it at the Roosevelt Island anchor point. Tweet  This is obviously the companion piece to yesterday’s image, but while that photo made me reflect on the origins of the pilings, this one has me reflecting on a powerful concept – life finds a way. I expect most of us picture Jeff Goldblum saying that in the Jurassic Parkmovie, but this takes me back...  Dawn on the East River looking north from almost directly underneath the Brooklyn Bridge. Who set these pilings and lashed them together? Tweet  The HDR collaboration group in which I participate is back! I previously hosted entries here and here and here and I hope to be posting a complete list of all collaboration posts on everyone’s websites soon. The participants this round are the usual crew of Mike “TheaterWiz” Criswell, Jimmy Denham, Scott Frederick, Jacques Gudé, Rob Hanson, and Bob Lussier (I feel like a talk show...  When I parked in this garage Friday morning I saw this awesome sight and tried to capture it but my equipment was not set up properly. When I returned the next day I was ready. That’s the East River between Roosevelt Island and Queens, with the sunrise over Astoria in Queens. You can see bo the Triboro...  This morning, for the second day in a row, I got up very early to shoot on Roosevelt Island, mostly along its shores. I’m not much for doing wildlife photography, but when I noticed this Roosevelt Island seagull sharing my view, I had to make a quick portrait. Tweet  This is Manhattan, on both sides of the river. Sort of, technically, but not really. This morning I ventured to Roosevelt Island, which is a long narrow island in the East River between Manhattan and Queens. For jurisdictional purposes it is a part of the borough of Manhattan and New York County, but apart fro...  The Chrysler building as the focal point of the Manhattan skyline, taken from Gantry Plaza State Park in Queens, the end point of the Queens World Wide Photo Walk I will be leading on October 1. I took this during a run-through for the walk. I have put together a gallery of images I have taken over the...  Another infrared of the Whitestone Bridge taken from Powell’s Cove in College Point in Queens. The first image, also infrared and from the same location, is here. I wish I knew how I managed to achieve the yellow colors in the wood and tree leaves. I know what I did. I simply made a white...  The support posts on the Golden Gate Bridge have all the numbers,* but I shot this one because it seemed to represent the city, but then I also remembered that it matched my upcoming birthday, which is today. *Well, not to infinity, but you know what I mean. Tweet  Powell’s Cove Park is billed as an “environmental waterfront park completed in 1999, … a bay with sizable wetlands and filled, undeveloped uplands.” The majority of the park consists of submerged marshlands. There is not much to it, but it has an awesome view of the Whitestone Bridge and the Bronx. This is true infrared taken...  I’m no engineer, but as I understand suspension bridges, this one cable and its partner on the other side basically hold the entire bridge roadway up. Tweet  |
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