Tag Archives: NYC I went back into my archives for this one, looking for something for the Film Friday and Plastic Lens Friday photo themes on Google Plus.* This is a shot of the Apple Store Cube on Fifth Avenue, taken with the first roll I shot on my Diana F+ plastic camera, and also taken before the...   This is another in my occasional series of New York City Subway Stations – here showcasing the West 8th Street – New York Aquarium Station near Coney Island, Brooklyn. The station is somewhat unusual in that it serves two separate elevated lines, one over the other. This is the lower of the two and there...  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...  A common element of urbex photography, especially when using the HDR technique, is a shot that shows the interior decay of the abandoned structure contrasted against what is often verdant growth outside the window. Using an HDR program like Photomatix to blend multiple exposures can do this, but with a shot as simple as this...  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...  This strikes me as a quintessential NY scene: a Queens barber shop promising Brooklyn flavor, and the sedan with the flags adds an extra touch. It isn’t my most exciting photo, but I think it captures something true. It’s a shame that the parking sign is right in front of the awning, but sometimes that’s...  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 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...  For better or worse, this shot speaks for itself in its simplicity, so I’ll let it do so. Tweet  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  A few months ago when I shot the interior of Grand Central Terminal using A Minolta CLE and Ilford HP5 Plus film, I needed to head outside to finish the roll. This is one of the shots I grabbed, from an overpass hard by the East River that looks straight down 42nd Street looking west....  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  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...  Yesterday morning was a bit brisk and chilly, but there was an epic blue sky, with just the right amount of clouds. I took a bit of a roundabout walk on the way to the subway in the morning and ended up at the Fresh Pond Road subway station, which has this cool vantage point....  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 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...  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  |
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