New York City is soooo pretty at sunset.
Digital, about 17000x5500px.
Archive for December, 2006
New York Public Library at 42nd Street
Dec 29th, 06
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South Manhattan from Brooklyn Heights Promenade
Dec 29th, 06
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Sunrise over the southern tip of Manhattan and the South Street Seaport.
Digital, about 19000x4000px.
Wall Street Stock Exchange
Dec 16th, 06
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The famous New York Stock Exchange, where money becomes liquid and flows and flows and flows and where it lands nobody knows.
Digital, about 17000x6500px.
Flat Iron Building and Madison Square Park
Dec 15th, 06
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The Fuller Building or as it is better known, the Flatiron Building, a name it acquired because it’s shape resembles the irons of its day, was one of the tallest buildings in New York City when it was built in 1902. Since it was one of the first buildings to use a steel skeleton, the building could be constructed to 285 feet, which would have been very difficult with other construction methods of that time. It was designed by Chicago’s Burnham and Root on a triangular island at 23rd St., Fifth Ave., and Broadway. Because of it’s unprecedented height locals began betting when it will fall down. The building is also said to have helped coin the phrase “23 skidoo,” or scram, from what cops would shout at men who tried to get glimpses of women’s dresses being blown up by the winds created by the building’s triangular shape.
Analog, about 24000x7200px.
Union Square Christmas Market
Dec 6th, 06
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The Christmas market is set up like a fort, pretty on the inside, and not so pretty on the outside. Oh well, the park is still nice.
Digital, about 17000x5000px.
Macy’s and Herald Square at Night
Dec 6th, 06
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Christmas in New York City means bright lights and excessively decorated shopping windows. Macy’s and the other big department stores compete each year for the most elaborate windows of the season hoping to lure shoppers inside. I stood at this spot for about 30 minutes to take the 100 images for this panorama (one set with long exposure, one set with short exposure to blend them later). Every 60 seconds an animated lion in one of Macy’s windows would roar. Fun for the first five times, creepy after that….
Digital, about 17000x5200px.
Empire State Building from 5th Ave South at Night
Dec 5th, 06
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This was a simple two shot panorama, taken right in front of the Museum of Sex. Their entrance niche gave me shelter and relief from the bone penetrating wind chill that night. The sidewalk was crazy busy with pedestrians, but you’d never know it because the 8 minute exposure made them all disappear.
Analog, about 9000x6000px.
59th Street Bridge and Manhattan
Dec 3rd, 06
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It’s not easy to find good places to shoot Manhattan. Lots of the good ones are owned by Con Edison or other companies, and they don’t let anyone on their property. I was trying to get a shot of the bridge from the south, but no such luck.
Digital, about 17000x4500px.
There is actually a really ugly/beautyful dump right under the bridge, right on top of the subway tunnel.
Digital, about 17000x6000px.
Construction near Queensboro Plaza [Part 2]
Dec 2nd, 06
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Now, four months later, the construction is almost finished, the facade is coming up. I plan to take another panorama from the exact same location when it’s finished.
Digital, about 17200x6500px.