South Street Seaport is an interesting mix between museum, tourist attraction and shopping and food mall. It’s one of those places where old New York meets new New York.
About 460 megapixel.

Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge: since so many people really liked this panorama, I decided to reshoot it much larger, and this is the new and improved version that will soon find its way into the portfolio with the usual size of 243×76cm (96×30in).
Digital, about 400 megapixel.

Somehow this bridge artifact deeply fascinated me, I kept coming back to it until I liked the panorama. Now I like it.
About 300 megapixel.

Broadway has so many facets while it’s making it’s way from north to south across Manhattan. It turns into a very residential area just north of Columbus Circle.
About 400 megapixel.

The Charging Bull bronze by Arturo Di Modica is the symbol of the financial district. According to wikipedia, the artist dropped the 3.2t sculpture off in front of the stock exchange as a present for the people of New York. The police impounded it, public outcry followed, and the sculpture was moved to its current location in the middle of Broadway. While taking the panorama I had to stop at least four times because some tourists wanted to stand in front of the bull have have their picture taken. Let me know which of the two versions you like better.
About 350 megapixel.

Riverside Park South is nearly finished, it just needs some small touch-up, and it’s actually quite nice, and very inviting for sightseeing, walking and biking. I like the fact that they left some artifacts of the old piers in the water, especially the old railroad barge transfer facility. I was also surprised to see so many people there at night, despite the signs that the park is closing at 11pm. Why the park is closing, I do not understand. Afterall, it’s a major throughway for bicycles. After I was finished with those two panoramas I moved on to the next location, the 72nd Street Ballpark and was promptly harassed by at least four cops in two vans, stating that I was doing something suspicious (photographing), and that I was trespassing. I was of course the only one that they harassed, all the others in the park that I saw were left alone. This encounter was way different than the Triboro bridge encounter, where the cops were just bored, but professional and somewhat friendly, while those four were clearly just out of line. So I will take the last panorama at the Ballpark as soon as the weather is OK again, before 11pm, so they can’t piss me off again.
About 250 megapixel.

Spring has finally arrived, and the cherries are blossoming. The Sheep Meadow is still officially closed until the grass is strong enough. This panorama wasn’t easy to shoot, since the meadow is pretty much completely unlit.
About 250 megapixel.

Roosevelt Island has a great view of Manhattan, especially the upper east side.
About 250 megapixel.

Now that winter seems to be over in NY, and the trees almost start blooming, I went back into the park. The Pond surrounds a small animal sanctuary, and without leaves on the trees, the reflections on the water are pretty calm.
About 330 megapixel.

The construction around the renovated Staten Island ferry terminal is almost finished, and it looked very intriguing for a panorama. At first I thought the south side would make a good one, but I think the north sode is actually working better. Never the less, those are just preliminary test panoramas, and not very high rez, since I just wanted to see if it’s worth the trouble and to see the composition. Let me know what you think, and if it would be worth reshooting it and ultimately getting it into my fine art portfolio.
About 200 megapixel.

Wall Street, or better the NYSE at Broad Street isn’t easy to capture if full, since the streets aren’t very wide, and one would need a super extreme wide-angle to capture it. That makes it an ideal candidate for a panorama. The frontal view are two different renderings from the same panorama shot since I am intending to license those panoramas for stock usage. If you would like to use them, send me an email. In the same realm is the Charging Bull on Broadway, another big symbol of the financial district.
Many many megapixel.

It’s been more than a year that I took the Holiday panorama at Herald Square. I wasn’t very happy with it. The highlights were too blown out, too much motion blur, no good HDR, and last of all, not big enough to print in my standard panorama size of 240×75cm (96×30in). So, here is the new version, right in time for the Macy’s Flower Show. Which version do you like better?
About 330 megapixel.

New York has most things more than once, especially Chinatown. The chinese community in Flushing is probably greater than the one in Manhattan, and has more room to grow. Main Street especially is exciting for all it’s food, either cooked or uncooked. I have to go back and get some more panoramas, especially of some of the stores on Main Street. The minimart I photographed  isn’t very asian, even if it is around in Chinatown, so I am not sure about that one yet. Let me know what you think.

About 200 megapixel.

This panorama was 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. I am not sure if it will be fruitful at all. The extreme wide aspect ratio prevents me from taking it into my fine art portfolio, but maybe it has a future in stock photography. So, if you like to license it, contact me.
About 1.1 gigapixel.

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 the brand new New York Times building. It’s not really a hyper-wide panorama since it’s only 80 degrees view, but I think it still fits into the family. I posted a zoomify version with the full gigapixel resolution on portfolio site at luminous-newyork.com
About 1 gigapixel.

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 50 tiles.
About 280 megapixel.

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 where NY is

About 770 megapixel.

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 of Times Square, I still like the light it emits, and it looks so much different from different view points, than how it looks down from the ground. I think I got it right this time, with a lot of texture and detail. It will be 112×60 inch (285×152 cm).
About 770 megapixel.

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, like so many other tourist who were walking by and looking at this swarm of fish.
About 500 megapixel.

Walking around in Manhattan is inspiring. You stumble over locations that are interesting, but yet deserted. South Street seaport, teaming with tourists during the day had only 2 employees there at night, and a bunch of teenagers partying.
About 280 megapixel.

Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge are probably on every NY tourist photo. It’s just a bit tough to get them both in the same picture.
Digital, about 95 megapixel.

Doyers Street is a completely hidden, tiny, bend street, right in the middle of Chinatown. There is nothing special there, besides the Excellent Pork Chop House, which I haven’t tried yet. But i liked it because it was so untypical for New York.
About 95 megapixel.

This is the official beginning of my chinatown series. I probably have to get a bit closer to the individual stores to get even more detail and more contrast between the street and the store.
About 300 megapixel.

It is amazing what kind of friendly people live in NYC. You meet them at a party, chat with them, ask them nicely, and they let you up their roof. Thank you Sasha&Ruth. Unfortunately, the wind was too strong and I am not happy with the results, so I have to retake it another night.
Digital, about 400 megapixel.

The Starlight room of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel is one of the hidden gems of NY and the light and ceiling and the art deco artwork are maginificent. I posted a couple of different panoramas of the room, post comments about which ones you like most/least. Update: I posted a VR version, for those inclined to pan/zoom/tilt around.
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