2011 [Plus] In Review
This is my first year end review post. I began the blog in October 2009, and in October 2010, I did a one-year anniversary post. Following that with a year-end…
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree and Faces
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…
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree 2011
Sometimes I feel foolish all the times I admit that I notice a photographic element only when I review the image at home, and had no sense of it when…
51 Great Photo Spots and Subjects in the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island [Page Three Staten Island]
Page One Covering the Bronx is here, and contains the full explanation behind the list. Page Two covering Queens is here. In order to ease the loading of each page,…
51 Great Photo Spots and Subjects in the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island [Page Two Queens]
Page One Covering the Bronx is here, and contains the full explanation behind the list. Page Three covering Staten island is here. In order to ease the loading of each…
51 Great Photo Spots and Subjects in the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island [Page One the Bronx]
Page Two covering Queens is here. Page Three covering Staten Island is here. The gentleman I credit as my blogfather, Trey Ratcliff, recently created a wonderful new app for the…
Let The Wind and Trumpets Blow!
This is, of course, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, shot from behind a toy solder statue and through a row of golden flags being blown by the wind. By the…
Big Lights, Bright City
Christmas decorations outside of 1221 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) between 48th and 49th Street, also known as the McGraw-Hill Building, part of the 1960s era expansion of Rockefeller…
Queens Nativity Scene
Merry Christmas! Just a typical front yard scene from my neighborhood.
Holiday Searching
Christmas Eve, and I'm very busy, as I'm sure are you. I've toyed with taking a blog vacation for the rest of the year, but I think I'm going to…
NYC Christmas
It's almost here. Last work day of the year for me. Merry Christmas. Happy Hannukah.
57th Street Christmas Star
So this is the same star as yesterday: the star, or snowflake, above 57th Street and Fifth Avenue. This time I'm standing on Fifth Avenue just above 56th Street and…
A Star In The East
This truly is facing East, or as near as you can get with Manhattan's street grid. For as long as I can remember this star (some call it a snowflake)…
A Bite of the Apple
I walked up to the Fifth Avenue Apple Store Cube last night wondering (1) whether the cube and Apple symbol would be decorated for Christmas in any way, and (2)…
Rear Windows
Just a parking lot, and some rear facing windows on an old building in downtown Syracuse.
Upper Rust
"The Upper Rust" is an antique store on East Ninth Street. It has some interesting window displays, but I was taken with the balconies on the third and fourth floors.