Monday, December 29, 2008

Italian princess

Italian princess
I almost never post a blurry photo like this but this one works for me for some reason.

Sky Garden

Sky garden


Sky garden


Sky garden
I like that it looks like the sky is under construction.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Back alley exposed

Back alley exposed
There used to be a giant parking lot in the foreground here and it made one side of a dank narrow alley. The alley was so creepy cool that they shot some of Spider Man 3 in it. Making it cooler is the fact that there's a slightly shady pizzeria next to a strip bar making up the row of establishments whose backs face this alley. Anyway, weird to see the cross section like that.

Monday, December 01, 2008

Midtown fisherman

Midtown fisherman
I wish this had a face in it somewhere but I still like that the people have such separate things going on.

Sky high

Sky high
This isn't much more than a straight up tourist picture, but it feels like there's a little extra vertigiousness to it. Not sure why, maybe the street light?

Monday, November 24, 2008

Blue and yellow

Yves at night
This was unexpected and hopefully I can do it again now that I know how it works. Twilight sky light is blue. Incandescent scaffolding light is yellow, plus yellow headlights on yellow speeding cabs.

Another tearful call

Another tearful call
There was a week this summer when it seemed like every other person I passed on the street was crying into a phone. Break-up season I guess.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Sleeping

Sleeping


Adding: I meant to use this one instead:
Sleeping

Sunday, November 16, 2008

The tunnel tour

LIRR tunnel in progress


LIRR tunnel in progress


LIRR tunnel in progress


LIRR tunnel in progress


LIRR tunnel in progress


LIRR tunnel in progress


LIRR tunnel in progress


LIRR tunnel in progress


LIRR tunnel in progress
These are of the tunnel being built to extend the Long Island Railroad to Grand Central. I probably could have narrowed this set down a little further but it was a pretty incredible tour so every picture still has a lot of impact for me.

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Low tide reflections

There was a rain storm coming and the dark cloud blocked a lot of the light in a very tramatic way but only in half the sky.
Low tide reflections


Low tide reflections


Low tide reflections


Low tide reflections
The way I've been seeing things lately, this last one may be the best of the bunch compositionally, sloppy as I was in taking it.

Balloon head

Balloon head


Balloon head
What I see here is the tethered balloon and the guy with the wires from his ears looking a lot like a tethered balloon himself. I tried to isolate that and include the child's face with the vertical crop but I don't like how it balances. The big shot feels too big but I wasn't able to find the happy medium.

Tuesday, November 04, 2008