Tag: New York

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Icon Landscape Urban

Wednesday December 2, 2009

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – This is a favorite subject of mine: Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Seagram building.  You’ll see this building again on this blog.   The space defined by the Seagram building, its plaza and the Racquet and Tennis Club across Park Avenue is one of the outstanding urban spaces in New York.  This is from the balcony of the Racquet and Tennis Club.  It’s about 5:30 PM so most offices are still illuminated.

Technically this image was stitched from four separate images shot with my Leica M9 and a 35 mm Summicron Asph. lens.  Images were stitched with PTGui Pro software.

Seagram building
Seagram building
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-Woody's Picks Street Urban

Monday November 30, 2009

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – This is a good time of the year to photograph New York in the dark – it gets dark early, around 5:00 PM.  Buildings are fully illuminated because workers are still at their desks at this hour.  Today we walked in the Lincoln Center to Columbus Circle area.

Traffic - Columbus Circle
Traffic - Columbus Circle
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Interior Landscape

Tuesday November 24, 2009

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Today is the run up for Thanksgiving – a major food shopping day.  We spend the morning at Fairway in Harlem (it’s at 125th Street and the Hudson River).  The weather cleared dramatically, providing an opportunity to photograph the underside of Riverside Drive from 125th Street.

Riverside Drive from 125th Street
Riverside Drive from 125th Street
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Culture Icon Urban

Monday November 23, 2009

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – A tough day for photographs: meetings all morning followed by a large lunch in a dark restaurant. Ugly, gray light outside. Late in the day I found myself uptown near Frank Lloyd Wright’s Gugenheim Museum. I have an ongoing project shooting iconic buildings as if one happens upon them at random – the objective is to try to capture the surprise of seeing them for the first time. The Gugeneheim is iconic but it’s hard to “happen upon” it – it’s cut off from Central Park across Fifth Avenue by a wall, and it’s hemmed in on the other three sides by larger buildings and the Manhattan grid. I ended up shooting details, and got this as it was getting dark. Not my best work.

The Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan
The Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan
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Landscape Urban

Friday November 20, 2009

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Another “bokeh” image – this time at Citibank.

Citicorp Center
Citicorp Center
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-Woody's Picks Icon Interior Landscape Urban

Thursday November 19, 2009

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Looking back at the past week’s work I kept coming back to the cemetery in New Preston. I decided to try more images with large out-of-focus areas. Returning to Grand Central Terminal I reshot the phones with a Leica M9 and a 35mm Summicron pre-aspheric version IV lens – I’ll be using this for the next several days. This lens is known as the “bokeh king” – bokeh being a subjective view of the quality of the out of focus portions of the image.

Grand Central Terminal - lower level
Grand Central Terminal – lower level
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-Woody's Picks Landscape Urban

Monday November 16, 2009

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – 919 Third Avenue, where my office is located.  Got this walking to the office this morning in brilliant, encompassing late fail light.  For the week of November 14 through 21 I’m using a single camera and lens: a Leica M9 with a 35mm Summicron Asph.  This is a wonderfully flexible combination.  When I need wider I shoot to stitch multiple frames together.  I rarely need longer.   919 Third Avenue is a Skidmore Owings & Merrill building completed in 1970.  It closely resembles an earlier Mies van der Rohe design.

919 Third Avenue
919 Third Avenue
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