Tag Archives: Manhattan This is an underpass in Fort Tryon park, captured on my New Year’s morning excursion. I only realized this morning, long after I finished processing it, that although I’m using the selective blur effect less than I used to, I seem to be using it routinely in shots that feature anything resembling a tunnel. So...   You would think they had never seen a pizza parlor parlor before. The bikers are on 42nd Street, which I was crossing while walking south down 9th Avenue with Dave DiCello last summer. I want to announce a new Google Plus Daily Photo Theme that I am starting: Plastic Lens Friday. The theme is open to any image taken...  A brief web search for “RIP Rick James Van” reveals that this van seems to live on the lower east side, which is where I found it. I also took some shots from the sidewalk side, but even with my most wide-angle lens (14mm) I couldn’t quite get the whole van in the picture, which...  The Chelsea Wine Cellar is a liquor store that advertises its wide selection of specialty and boutique wines. I was mostly interested in the neon sign, set off against the health food store awning next door. How was your weekend? I had a nice quiet 2 days with family, and also managed to get out...  These Fort Tryon arches are certainly catnip for a photographer like me, and I took additional shots from the other side looking in as well as inside them before I made my way here. This view is actually less interesting, I think, than the others, except for the very sparsely decorated Christmas tree to the...  Continuing my occasional series of subway station shots, this one actually features a crowd of people. It also happens to be my regular every day commuting station where I work. I took this while waiting for my train home, of another set of people waiting for their trains home. The train on the far platform...  When I can’t look at you and You can’t look at me, I’m not certain If we’re tired of each Other or just tired. Tweet  I messed this roll up 17 ways ’til Tuesday. I meant to shoot as a 16 image roll, but shot 12. Even then, somehow managed to get only 10 shots. I meant to use the sky in the first shot as a background for a double exposure but didn’t. I had the camera set to...  Back in November I suggested I had an idea for a photo series, but it was too intimidating to truly consider. It was simply to get a shot of every station in the NY subway system. Depending on who is counting and when, there is some number of stations slightly greater than 420 in the...  The cube, which is only a few years old, underwent renovations that concluded a couple of months ago. The cube used to be made up of many small glass panels, and is now composed of much larger glass panels, leading to a much cleaner look. There are not as many reflections, but you can still create some...  I have sat on this shot for about a year, for two reasons. First it is technically flawed, with poor focus. Second, I generally don’t want to poke fun at the people I shoot. It seems a breach of trust. But sometimes I cannot resist, and my fallen nature won out this time. Tweet  It is not unusual to see a box truck with graffiti on it, but this is a somewhat extreme example. It’s like a small piece of traveling Urbex. In this instance, it was parked among office towers at the edge of the Rockefeller Center complex. It is also another example of why I love carrying...  I shoot the shooters. Fifth Avenue, in front of the Atlas Statue at Rockefeller Center, roughly 15 months ago. I can’t be sure because it is from real film, so there is no exif data to tell the tale. Tweet  Always Have A Backup Plan One of the best benefits of winter photography is being able to sleep in. You can get beautiful light at 7 am that would otherwise require being out at 5 am in May or June. Nevertheless I tend, for some reason, to mess up my calculations in winter as I...  Mannequins can make great models, and I had to stop to grab this shot of rows of mannequin heads in a storefront on W.29th Street. Tweet  What’s “Behind the Green Door?” Apparently it’s a building filled with sprinklers, if we can believe the sign. And unlike Bob Lussier who first played coy about using the “Behind the Green Door” reference before stooping to do so, I have no such qualms. ;) There’s no such thing as the wrong kind of traffic....  Happy New Year once again. This is the same sunrise as I posted yesterday, the first sunrise of 2012, but instead of the iPhone camera, this is taken with a camera and lens combination that allowed me to keep the sun from looking like a giant blob. This is Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan,...  Happy New Year. These are both iPhone shots that I shared through instagram. The first is from a local park in Queens and shows the last sunset of 2011. The one on the right is from a photo shoot this morning in Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan. I have, I hope, a better quality shot of...  I took this just before getting into position for yesterday’s image. The people a watching a light display, with music, on Saks Fifth Avenue. You can imagine how enchanting it must have been to get all of these people — all or most of whom came to see the tree — to turn away and look...  |
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