Tag Archives: Black and White If this scene looks familiar to regular visitors, that’s because it is the same exact point of view as this image from just a few weeks ago. In fact they were taken the same morning, with this shot coming at the end of the same excursion as I circled back to where I started, but...   I know that this tilt-shift miniature effect has been done to death, but I have found surprisingly few opportunities to create the classic example of a street scene shot from above, and then rendered in such a way to make it look like a miniature diorama. After I shot this image from the Fresh Pond...  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...  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  these weeks go by fast, and this is the last image in the Grand Central Terminal series on the blog. I went back and forth on deciding which image to use. It came down to this one, or another that was less interesting but technically superior. I decided to go with this one despite its...  This is the same ramp that I showed here from a slightly different perspective. People seem to have liked the lights and reflections in that shot and I think they are shown to even better effect here. Happy Passover and Happy Easter Triduum to all visitors who celebrate either holiday. Tweet  I was drawn to this ramp down to Track 38 because it seems a bit unusual for being so narrow and tight. Many of the other Grand Central Terminal ramps don’t even have walls, just railings. Tweet  The ramp leading up on the right serves an entrance at the corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue. the doors straight ahead lead to a walkway to the Grand Central Subway Station. This section of the Terminal might have a name but I do not know what it is. At the far end of...  Back in the day, when train travel was the way to get around the country, Grand Central Terminal was much more than a commuter railroad terminal. The 20th Century Limited, running between New York and Chicago, was quite possibly the most famous train in the world, and certainly the most famous and elegant in the United...  The ticket windows in Grand Central Terminal do open, but I think this particular set might be permanently closed, so it would be a good idea to familiarize yourselves with those vending machines. Tweet  With the Coney Island Series wrapped up, it’s time to return to Grand Central Terminal, for another week of shots taken early on a Sunday morning using Ilford HP5 Plus black and white film pushed to 1600 ISO. It’s roughly impossible to get a shot of this room empty, and this is nearly as close...  Stillwell Avenue, at the heart of Coney Island. That’s Nathan’s barely visible on the extreme right edge of the frame. Across the street is a row of new storefronts that lie empty. Whether they have tenants lined up for the start of the season I do not know. A few short years ago there was...  This is the entrance to Luna Park, which I suppose is now the largest amusement park area in Coney Island. That’s the Cyclone behind it. 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  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  When I started researching this post, I was confused, as I started finding articles announcing (and usually complaining about) the demolition of the Shore Hotel in Coney Island. A bit of further research revealed that the Shore Hotel has indeed been demolished, a bit more than a year ago, and that this is the Shore...  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...  |
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