I took these in the dark, and rather than try a long exposure that would have come blurry because I didn't have anything to set the camera on, and rather than switch to a higher ISO, which is often too grainy, I kept a pretty fast setting and basically leaned on the brightening features in Photoshop. I'm pretty pleased with the result. It looks almost painted.
We primarily patronize Val Diano for our pizza needs, largely because it's the kind of family business we want to have in our neighborhood, but to my taste, Italy Pizza farther down Manhattan Ave. makes a tastier product overall.
Remember that liquor license for 61-77 Wythe Avenue/104-122 N. 12 St. and I couldn't figure out what building had that address (http://testofwill.blogspot.com/2007/03/where.html)? It turns out it's really the entire half a block all the way through to the loading dock/parking lot on Berry. That's could be a really big club if it goes through.
I like how busy this is, but I don't like that there's no real focus. It's not a picture of anything.
It looks like the surface of the finger building will be brown terra cotta-looking tiles. These photos are from Monday, but given the glacial pace of construction on this building it probably doesn't look too different today. I didn't see any stacks of the tiles themselves. It seems like a heavy/brittle material to use on a facade so I'll be interested to see what it really is.
Some of the context is lost in the cropped version, but nothing that has any meaning in the photo so I think the tighter one is better.
A while ago there was a plywood construction here that looked like one of those rock climbing walls. Turns out it was, as some guessed, a cement form. More interesting now is seeing them construct a building over the high line with this as one leg.
I love the organic tree versus the linear fire escape but boy did I wrestle to get a composition I like. I think the black and white version is the better one but I also like the one with the street signs.
With regard to the Times Squaring of Bedford and N7th, last weekend they put up that little TV screen. It took me a few days to get a night time "after" shot.
