I was relaxing next to a little lake near Cooperstown, NY, at dusk when these colors happened and this guy paddled by. It’s a lake that is relatively high in elevation and you feel as though the sky and water are very close to each other.
Category Archives: New York
Building Hudson Yards
On the job at Hudson Yards, the mammoth West Side development in New York City. You can walk right up to the construction site on the Highline, a few blocks east of the Hudson River. As the developer’s web site says: “Hudson Yards is the largest private real estate development in the history of the United States and the largest development in New York City […]
Also posted in Hudson Yards, New York City
Free Verse
Union Square, NYC. When inspiration strikes, hunt and peck, but it does make you wonder: Do you need an official poetic license to write free poems in New York?
Sky Sail
Over Long Beach, NY, a beach town on a barrier island just off the south shore of Long Island, not too far from JFK airport. Part one of the year-end image clearance. Like it on the social media bar below, if you like. And you can do the same for any of the earlier posts. Thanks!
Also posted in Kite, Sky, Uncategorized
Same-Day Wash
Same-day wash, Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.
Also posted in Brooklyn, Bushwick, New York City, urban
9/11 Memorial
The National September 11 Memorial opened to the public on 9/12/11, although it’s not finished. Above, One World Trade Center, also known as Freedom Tower, rises toward its planned height of 105 stories (1776 feet), to be completed in 2013. Below, detail of one of the two pools/waterfalls that mark the sites of the original Twin Towers. By January more than a million people had […]
Also posted in architecture, New York City
The Flatiron
The Flatiron Building at 175 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan attracts photographers because of its unusual wedge shape (like an old flatiron from the days when irons were chunks of iron that had to be heated up before they were used to press clothing), because of the iconic 1904 Steichen photo, below, left, next to mine from a similar angle, and because of many other artists’ attempts […]
Also posted in architecture, New York City
Renaissance Portraits
I was back in New York last week, so I’ll have a bunch of urban posts over the next few days — from Fifth Avenue in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, above, to Bushwick Avenue in Brooklyn, the 9/11 Memorial and some stops in between.
Also posted in New York City, silhouette, Uncategorized
Big Apple Apple
Spring rush, outside the Apple store on Broadway, Upper West Side. More NYC photos are here.
Also posted in New York City, Spring
Tagged Apple, megalopolis, New York City, people, streets
Wind on the Horizon
Wind Farm, Route 11, upstate New York.
Also posted in Alternate energy, Colors, Travel
Tagged alternate energy, colors, New York State, wind farm