Tag Archives: D700 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...   Walking along River Street in Hoboken, I came across this subtle bit of neon advertising for Hoboken Cigars, and was immediately drawn to its studied, understated cool. You can see me and my tripod reflected in the bottom center window. While I do not mind it here, I wish there were a magic tool that would allow...  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...  Walton Street is a short, two-block stretch in downtown Syracuse with a lot of restored buildings and pretty shops, but that is not what I chose to shoot that morning. This is a loading dock, I guess. There is a great ghost sign above, but I cut it off because “Hurbson Office Equipment” did not...  Sometimes what I do in the field is a mystery to me. I photographed this scene twice in immediate succession. For the second image I widened my zoom by 2 mm, and widened my aperture by maybe 2 stops (since I was in Aperture priority mode this automatically adjusted my shutter). But apparently I never...  Very late post today and very short on time. The sign — “Louis Zuflacht – Smart Clothes,” is from an old men’s clothing store. When I was there to take this the space was occupied by a gallery called NY Studio Gallery, but that website says they are now closed so I do not know...  I’m running behind today, so I cannot give this the historical background I would like, but I should have the chance with at least one more image later. For now let’s just say the building and clock tower are a little over 100 years old, that the clock tower was removed and restored at some...  An empty parking lot in downtown Hoboken, NJ last Sunday morning. I did what would you might call light tonemapping (as opposed to heavy tonemapping) to partially even out the diference between the shadow area in the bottom left and the brighter area in the top right. The saturation is dropped about 40%, except for the sky...  Where is there an end of it, the soundless wailing, The silent withering of autumn flowers Dropping their petals and remaining motionless; The Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot. The latest entry from an urbex adventure in Staten Island. Tweet  It is time again for Plastic Lens Friday (#plasticlensfriday) over at Google Plus. This was taken using a Holga plastic lens on my Nikon D700, on the extremely photo friendly Doyers Street in Chinatown. Tweet  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...  This is my second shot from last weekend’s urbex shoot in Staten Island. That’s Jose Vazquez kneeling just by the open door. I have to give him credit for this. He was set up for his shot when I decided to set up behind him. I was going to wait for him to finish, but...  This statue is on display in the courtyard of the Church of the Transfiguration in Chinatown, NYC. The church was originally built by Lutherans in 1801. That Lutheran congregation, whose history goes back to 1749, was riven by disputes over doctrine and language, and the building was sold to Episcopalians in 1810. As the neighborhood...  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  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  This is one of the smaller streets in Manhattan, just one block long and fairly narrow. Mosco Street was formerly known as Cross Street. It was longer than it is today, and was part of the infamous “Five Points” intersection and neighborhood once notoriously known for riots, criminal gangs, and infectious diseases. Today, Mosco Street feels...  Last week I was invited by a group of New York area photographers active on Google Plus to take part in an excursion to an abandoned community on Staten Island. The trip was planned and led by Jose Vazquez, and also included Angel Figueroa, Howard Gaines, Mike Marin, and kora foto morgana. It was a...  I went out to Chinatown this morning. The sky was overcast, so the light was a bit disappointing, but some good shot opportunities still presented themselves. These two toys in a store on Mott Street caught my eye. 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  |
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