Junkyard

I had the idea that the horizontals in the stairs worked with the horizontals in the tires. Now I'm not so sure. Nice depth but I wish there was something back there to see once your eye goes there.

Where Heath Ledger died

A camera man pauses between news trucks looking at the crowd gathered in front of 421 Broome.

The big shoot

Two models and some DJ equipment and a lot of colorful graffiti.

Space invaders

This looks really fresh. I haven't seen a new one in a long time.
http://www.space-invaders.com/

Chinese Food take out

Perhaps most surprising is that this place is an open and functioning business.

Solar powered

This is a south facing wall on Grand Street so it must get pretty good, consistent sun. I'd love to know how productive it is. I'm not sure what kind of establishment is behind the gate.

Drivers wanted

Urban Rustic

Endless Summer

Did they deliberately park that truck in front of a bike of the same color?
Will rents eventually get so high that everything is conducted in the street because no one can afford a storefront?

Prime Burger

Dear Kimya Dawson, you're kind of a big deal now

Diner

Floors and stripes

Pies & Thighs

I dug back in the archive to find these from this past summer.

Agencja

Sugarland

My continued effort to find a way to show how weird it looks with just the one building standing among all the demolition and construction on the N9/N10th Roebling/Driggs block.

Black tree

Through the fence

Demolished block

Galapagos

Plywood bamboo

There's not much to see at the shutter building yet but it's kind of neat that the site is surrounded by bamboo instead of plywood.

The Modern gets glass

Hotel del Mano

That place with no sign is not getting a sign. As it is the bartender would only whisper the name. I think he said Hotel Del Mano.
Anyway, tonight was their second night open so I feel pretty cool for going to the secret almost-no-name bar on almost-opening night.

There are small rooms in the back of the bar and the whole thing is done with a kind of antique flair. Beautiful marble bar.

Priority seating

All hands

Welcome to CES, now go stand on line

A few hot shots

Eager

Whitney Jene Harchanko
I never heard of her but they were lined up and eager at her little autographing station.

My CES celebrity sightings

Nancy O'Dell

Maria Bartiromo

Jon Favreau unveiling an Iron Man suit

Natasha Beddingfield

Seeing into the future

Imperial Palace lobby

Not the nicest room I've ever stayed in but at least it was authentically "Vegas."

Fake piazza

Holy Truman Show.
The Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas.

Anatomy of an interview

It almost looks like Iwo Jima.

Desolate

Dear Mr. Wynn, this is probably a sign that your casino is too big.

Double shadow

This is a really weird coincidence of angles. The sun is directly in front of us and there's a building behind us exactly square with the sun so while I take a picture of the shadow of the guy in front of me my own shadow is on his back.

Reading by casino light

Taxi echo

Y'know how at LaGuardia the people wait in line and the taxis all pull up in a group and then the guy directs people to the cabs? In Las Vegas the lady tells you which number space to stand in and then a flock of taxis zip onto the scene and park each in their own space.

Going and coming

My trip out to Las Vegas and back was so quick I didn't get to post my "I'm going" photo before it was time to post my "I'm coming back" photo.

Red match

Buildings

I don't know why my eye is drawn to reflections of buildings in other buildings. I just need to take these until I get it out of my system.

Learning the new lens

This is 22mm standing off the curb about 6 feet into the street. Not a lot of distortion.

This one is a wider angle on the lens with me standing closer to the building. The bike wheel is all wonky. I don't like it.

Bari bikes

Two floors of candy

I wonder if they're going to do more candy or if it'll be merchandising or something boring like that.

Sawdust demo

This is the sawdust factory being demolished but what I'm really recording here is that bit of street art. I still don't know the artist's name but they manage to get a piece up on every construction fence in the neighborhood. Some don't move me and others are really outstanding. This one, a door with stoop and garbage can really works for me.

Levee

Lately I'm liking to leave a look around the corner in these storefront shots. Usually I frame away as much of that kind of depth as possible and try to keep the subject flat. Of course it'd be better if there was something interesting around the corner but even with just a white van it makes the picture a lot more dynamic than if it was a flat picture of a guy reading in front of the storefront.

Swarm

It sucks when the best photo I took all day is mostly accidental while I was taking cover from a huge flock of birds startled by a passing car.

True canyon

Not very original but since I now have a lens that can take this I need at least one of my own. :)

Wrong light setting but I kind of like the light blue wash.

Little people

I like the giant guy looking down on the little people.

The Halifax Hospital Emergency Room examination bays

Just a few stitches.

Christmas in Florida

Bing's Landing

This may be too subtle but I really like it. Less subtle version below.

No Weapons No Jokes No Stashing

The only things under the red slash are weapons. Shouldn't there be a smiley face under there too?

Every panel in the plane's bathroom is sealed with something that looks like chewed gum but it probably more like sealing wax (I didn't touch it but it looks hard/brittle).

Awaiting transport, transported

LaGuardia is a sty. Really, they can't help it. The place is packed with people who dutifully showed up two hours early only to find out that security takes ten minutes and since they already checked in online from home they have an hour and fifty minutes to kill.

Coffee, water and OJ at Starbucks was ten bucks and change.

Greenpoint challenge entry

This may be cheating a little because I'm using a pretty wide angle lens but I get seven in this entry in the Greenpoint Challenge (http://curbed.com/archives/2006/10/19/take_the_greenpoint_challenge.php):

Standing at Berry and N 10th we can see (from the right) 70 Berry gut renovation of lofts (http://curbed.com/archives/2007/05/14/how_to_have_fun_in_williamsburg_1_eviction_sale.php) then an empty lot that's just a foundation so far, then the one on the corner, then there are three midway down the block (http://www.flickr.com/photos/atestofwill/2157811438/) two are new but the third is a very extensive renovation so I count it as construction. Then lastly, on the left, 125 N 10th.

Off to Florida for the holiday

The line at Cafe Riviera

What the heck do they make at Cafe Riviera that people line up outside in the rain on a Sunday afternoon before Christmas?

Japanese math

What kind of special math do you have to know to name a Japanese restaurant? Do restaurants with branches get Roman numerals?

Bike stop

At first I wondered what fool decided to put a bike rack in the bus stop. Then I realized it's not a bus stop, the whole thing is for bikes.
Union Square near Barnes & Noble.

Awkward!

I know, not quite in focus but the point is, don't you hate it when you wear the same thing as your subway station?

It's up...

I have so many regrets about this one but still I can't delete it. They're kicking a football off a tee in a parking lot.

Alone

Page 1

Angel shopping

Night work

This is of the guys working on the building face. Maybe needs a bit more light up there. I like the silhouette in front of the window though.

Mini Chimney

I don't know why I didn't realize it when I first saw it but of course smoke doesn't go sideways. There was a slight breeze, just enough to change the direction but not enough to break up the plume. I had to stand there for a while waiting for it to happen again.

Spider Man!

There's a public atrium up around 56 or 55 and Madison with this giant Spider Man crawling down the wall. It looks like it could be a Macy's balloon.

It's hard to get the scale here because the Christmas tree is also really huge.

Head turner

It may be that the only thing turning the head of the pedicab driver is the fact that I'm taking this picture. I chased her up 5th Ave as she tried to hail a cab. Her coat kept flapping dramatically with her hair and headlights kept casting cool shadows. Ultimately this was the only one of the series that was worth a damn.

Warm inside

I'm beginning to think the most interesting thing is midtown/5th Ave is the sales people. That woman in the ball gown is there to sell you jewelry.

Where is justice?

Busk

Turning this into a black and white photo seemed like a no brainer but ended up looking terrible. I couldn't keep enough light in the busker so he just looked like a blob. Instead, after a bit of color correction I used the saturation feature and pulled just a bit of the color out. Usually people use saturation to brighten colors but I've found that draining the color (but not all the way) is a good way to whiten whites. Compare these last two shots.

Whoosh!

L Train.
I liked her pose and wanted to get the blur of the train behind her still image. She actually moved around quite a bit so I only had one go at it. The second shot was just chance that she ended up framed by the space between the cars.

New for New Year's

In the Times Square subway station these are mosaics of figures celebrating the new year. I took these in mid December so presumably they were finished in time for the actual New Year's Eve. I liked that the workers made the same human form shapes as the negative space they were cutting into the tile. I also like how the finished mosaics work with the real humans in the station. I didn't have time to hang around but I'm sure someone's going to get some great shots of these things interacting.

Rush reflection

A handy coincidence that these two fit right into the windows like that.

Crash!

There was a car accident under the 7 train (which is an elevated subway line). The car below had its bumper torn off and is leaking fluid. I'm pretty impressed that the auto focus was able to find its way down to the street below.

Hermanas

The idea was to take a picture that keeps the eye busy. This might actually be a picture that draws the eye only to disappoint it with the fact that it's a shot of nothing.

Color stalking

I was trudging around in the freezing rain and slush when I saw this woman in a bright pink coat half a block ahead of me and she was about to walk in front of a big beach mural. I literally sprinted to catch up for the shot. I didn't quite get what I was hoping for but she made a worthwhile model for the length of that block (Wythe & S 2nd or S 3rd). Probably not best presented as a set but here they all are in a row now that I've told the story.

Holiday cheer

Parallel parking

This is pretty trite as far as Williamsburg street photography goes but the freezing rain was making the reds stand out and gave the street some reflections so I decided to try to find something new in it.

Adverfitti

If it wasn't under specially installed outdoor lighting it might be a little less obvious. I think it's a video game related ad because the one a few feet farther along the wall is definitely an ad for a video game.