Monthly Archive: February 2008

Midtown from Roosevelt Island

This panorama was originally a custom shot for a client in Florida. He needed a panorama of NY with a 5:1 aspect ratio and more than 1 gigapixel resolution. It turned out not to be fruitful at all. The extreme …

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The New York Times

Most of the good locations can be found by just walking around (in sometimes stranges areas). I t took me about an hour to find this spot, with an almost perfect view of the south-west side of Times Square, and …

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Brooklyn Bridge (again)

I went back to the Brooklyn Bridge to take another panorama, this time only a 200 degree panorama, with nothing but water in the foreground and all the focus on the bridge and a quite nice moon. It’s stitched from …

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New Yorker

The New Yorker has a big red neon sign on 34th street. Not many people in NYC actually see it, but surely all residents on the NJ side of the Hudson see it each night, just in case they forget …

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Northern Times Square (Broadway)

Some panoramas I have to revisit, because they weren’t perfect the first time. Times Square is one of them, and this is my 5th attempt to capture it. While I would never really consider doing one of the “traditional” panoramas …

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Chinatown: Goldfish at Broome Street

While it seems that many stores in Chinatown sell the same things, there are a couple of speciality stores, like this pet fish store. The fish and the neon light looked unresistable, and I simply had to take this panorama, …

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