Jun 2nd, 10
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SciCafe talks at the American Museum of Natural History are great and relatively small (maybe 100-150 guests usually), but Neil deGrasse Tyson is such a great and entertaining host, that this talk (last presentation before the summer break) was moved out into the great hall.
iPad and Iphone users: direct path to the interactive panorama
Apologies: sorry for the couple of half people, I usually try to photograph them complete, but a couple were in the overlap area between rows, and sorry for the white areas (I didn’t shot a complete 360×180).
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Rating: 4.5/5 (2 votes cast)
May 20th, 10
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The Chrysler Building is beautiful, and I really love when it’s in some of my panoramas. Then I got the chance to actually shoot a panorama from a upper floor… the view was spectacular. I was debating how I can turn this into a horizontal pano, but in the end it became a square pano.
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Rating: 5.0/5 (3 votes cast)
May 5th, 10
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My original plan for this panorama was the gas station, but I couldn’t find an interesting angle to it. On the other hand, the mansion on the corner just looked too strange to not take a panorama. The Victorian mansion is supposedly one of New York’s finest examples, built in 1886, and just recently sold, according to locals who stopped to chat with me. Stribling has some more info about the building.
It took me a while to take all the shots, because traffic was random, and significant. Fortunately I was already almost finished when the cops stopped by and started interrogating me, and giving me a quite insulting and intimidating and harassing speech that it is illegal what I am doing here, and other BS like that, and basically insisting that I have to leave right away. Since I was done anyway, I left. I am wondering if they were just bored that night and hadn’t fulfilled their harassment quota, or if they genuinely believed the stuff they said.
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Rating: 4.5/5 (2 votes cast)
Apr 29th, 10
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Those two panoramas are just location shots for a shoot I am planning later this year. The Bloomberg Building is incredible interesting, and incredible difficult to photograph.
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Apr 23rd, 10
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The area between the West Village and the Holland Tunnel is home to some of New York’s ad agencies, especially Euro (on the left) and Saatchi (on the right). Since this is a 180 degree panorama, I was struggling a bit with the composition: panoramic, or wide angle? I think for this the wide angle works better. And if you are in the area, visit Jaques Torres for some great chocolate 
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Apr 18th, 10
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All three panos are from the same shoot, I just couldn’t decide which one I like better. For one, the Woolworth Building is just New York’s second prettiest old high-rise, so it would be cruel to cut it out, on the other side, the WTC buildings are coming up, and they are just ultra modern and sleek.
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Rating: 4.7/5 (3 votes cast)
Mar 18th, 10
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This is another attempt to photograph the cop cot. The first one was beautiful, snow and everything, so I was hoping to recreate some of the magic, but I guess this scene is really difficult with out snow, so I will give it another try in winter, given that we will ever see snow again in NYC.
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Mar 17th, 10
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The East River Roundabout park is easily the most unknown and inaccessible park in NYC. It’s only use at the moment is a dog run. The structure is an old garbage transfer station, and the sculpture on top of it was designed/installed in 1995 by Alice Aycock. The NYC parks department has a bit more info about it. I love the structure.
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Rating: 4.7/5 (3 votes cast)
Nov 7th, 09
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This was my second attempt photographing this gas station, and gas stations in general. It took a lot of patience, since it is actually a very busy gas station, with cars constantly pulling in and filling up.
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Nov 4th, 09
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This is another attempt to capture the sculpture in an interesting panoramic way, I am not completely happy yet, and will have to wait for some night to try it again.
Here is the previous attempt: newyorkpanorama.com/2008/08/20/alice-in-central-park
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Mar 28th, 09
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Last night at 8.30 local time was Earth Hour, and 4000 cities world wide participated and turned off their lights for one hour, with great results. New York City on the other hand was a big disappointment… sure, some of the larger structures turned off (Empire State Building and the Citi Corp Building, but over all not many cared about it, and especially Times Square was the biggest disappointment… 4(!) out of 50+ large signs were turned off, and none of the retailers participated. What a drag…
NY skyline before Earth Hour:
NY skyline during Earth Hour:
Times Square during Earth Hour:
(pan around with your mouse, shift or apple/command to zoom, right click for fullscreen)
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Rating: 4.1/5 (84 votes cast)
Dec 13th, 08
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Ever since I shot the pano in April, I was unhappy about it (the second one), and decided to reshoot it (the first one), with more coverage to the left, and a bit more resolution.
About 400 megapixel.
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Rating: 4.1/5 (33 votes cast)
Nov 15th, 08
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I went to the 2007 Macy’s Parade balloon setup staging area around the American Museum of Natural History, which is quite a spectacle for everybody. Starting around midnight, I worked all night, up to the moment the parade actually leaves the staging area. I shot so many panoramas that I am still not finished editing them. If you are interested buying a regular print (i.e. 20-30in), or if you want to license or use them for something, send me an email. (Given the nature of the parade, I do not have any model releases for those). Let me know which ones you like
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Rating: 3.4/5 (16 votes cast)
Oct 9th, 08
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Peg, who I met at the last day of the Tabla Rasa Show, was so kind to offer her rooftop for this great panorama. I think this is so far the nicest ESB panorama. What do you think?.
Digital, about 1 gigapixel.
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Rating: 4.3/5 (31 votes cast)
Sep 30th, 08
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I did another Wall Street panorama set upon request from Der Spiegel, but unfortunately they did not wanted to use it (yet). So, if you are interested licensing them, contact me.
Many many megapixel.
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Rating: 4.5/5 (8 votes cast)
Sep 23rd, 08
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This panorama is a little bit an experiment… I wanted to get as much supreme court as possible into one photo. Hopefully I can get a panorama from the inside one day, since the hallway alone looks very promising.
Digital, about 400 megapixel.
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Rating: 4.7/5 (15 votes cast)
Sep 23rd, 08
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I am continuing to work on my Chinatown series. It has become a bit difficult, since I really want to photograph a bit more of the street life, but none of the store owners want to speak english (anybody speaking some form of chinese and wants to help me convincing store owners?) Never the less, Chinatown has a fuzzy border in New York, and merges easily into the court quarter around Centre Street and this is a very nice example of one of those fuzzy borders.
Digital, about 550 megapixel.
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Sep 15th, 08
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It’s very interesting to see just how many rooftops are out there, and how they are used in the Upper West Side.
Digital, about 600 megapixel.
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Rating: 4.4/5 (17 votes cast)
