A Test Of Will: September 2007

Friday, September 28, 2007

Defonte's

I waited forever for that girl in the red dress to walk under the red letters and now I'm not so sure it's as big a deal as I thought it was going to be.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

WTC's new temporary PATH station

Monday, September 24, 2007

I didn't happen upon a photo shoot or anything, this was just a guy and his car on the street in Tribeca.

I'm pretty sure that's envy on that other guy's face. Of course, the funnier picture would have been of the dork holding a baby in one hand, a camera in the other with a backpack full of diapers and camera equipment trying to take a picture of Mr. Smooth here. Hopefully I won't see that one on Flickr any time soon.

I wanted to take some of the black mass out of his suit so I though I could introduce some gray if I tried black & white. If there's gray in there I couldn't find it.

By the way, I'm thinking that's a '55 or '56 Ford Thunderbird.
www.musclecarclub.com/musclecars/ford-thunderbird/ford-th...

Thursday, September 20, 2007

East 4th Deli

'The Ludlow'

Laundry day

Another one bites the dust

Welcome to Condoburg

Pickle Day

The line for Guss's was silly.

Clinton Street signs

Backyard backhoe

Shot in the dark

It's getting darker earlier so I'm practicing my night shots for winter. I've got a nice new tripod and remote trigger but this is free hand.

Call box memorial

There's another one of these on Berry Street. I don't know if it's an organized operation or someone's random idea. I like it as an alternative to renaming streets.

Hydrant hop

Bike rack

I could take pictures of this building all day. It'll suck when they tear it down one day and put a glass condo here.

'Tyson's here'

I heard someone say, "Tyson's here" and I thought for sure it was going to be Mike Tyson. It took me a minute to figure out it was Tyson Beckford.

He drives what appears to be an off-the-shelf West Coast Chopper.

Grease Monkey Block Party 2007

More in the Flickr stream, but these are some highlights from this year.

Beaver House

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Night stretch

Under the scaffolding there is 190 N 14th St.
See the architect's rendering here: http://brharchitect.com/portfolio.xml

Skinning

18 Bedford gets interesting

This corner could get real interesting.

Thought bubble

For some reason the street shots I take with the 50mm look too contrasty.

Balloon ride

String bikini

This was kind of an accidental shot but it came out better than the ones of these girls I took on purpose.

As if there's any place these girls could be going that this cabbie wouldn't take them to

Lokal gets signage

Jimmy's Diner opened in the old Union Picnic space

Click through to the Flickr stream for a few other shots and a picture of the menu in the window.

Trike at dusk

I was liking the sky when I took this but looking at it now, I might have been better off getting more of that shadow.

Room with a view

Restaurant

Sunset on Beaver

Ridiculous as it sounds, I can't choose from these three.

Monday, September 10, 2007

PDA

Silhouexercise

I'm not sure this works as a still shot. The window at the end of the alley looks into a gym of some kind and the person in front of it is running on a treadmill. So at the end of the alley there's a running shadow in the window.