..i remember waiting for some trains to pass by for me to catch some light trails from this perspective, but my patience was running thin, so here’s the dark underbelly of the manhattan bridge..
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stargate pillars
..some pillars from the ny state pavilion in flushing, queens..
..now this is the best thing you could do the whole weekend..
..except maybe look for a more comfy place to do it (see image below)..
..take a break, have a seat..
..i remember sitting down by that bench for 30+ minutes.. can’t remember why though..
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street view
..what do you do when you wanna capture manhattan a-la vincent laforet but can’t justify the moolah to get a ‘copter? get up the tallest building you can find and dangle your camera out the ledge, and voila.. (just make sure to wrap the strap around your wrist..)
..this here’s looking up the north face of the empire state building..
..seeing that soccer is not among the top sports played in north america (i just googled it), i guess it’s wise to bring the game to the crowd for them to appreciate it..
..moving on, i posted a link a few days ago about “participating” in the NYPH (NY Photo Festival) 2009.. well, i got an email a while ago and one of my images were shown via slideshow and they took a picture of it and sent it to me.. yay! (you’ll have to excuse me, i get pleased easily.. ;D )
..i’m no expert in soccer so i’ll just call this move a crossover (just like in basketball)
..imagine if they played this at wall street while wearing suits, now that’d be cool..
*..i’ve updated the title, apparently, this move’s called a regate.. (thanks to albert) 😀
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verrazano
..same time, same place (give or take a few feet) where i got this..
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promenade
..i’m almost done tagging, i wish i could’ve done this earlier on.. argh..
..here’s the brooklyn heights promenade.. best viewed supersized (click the thumbnail below)
..”golden hour” sunlight on bricks..
..shifting gears from “earth week” (those nature-oriented photos i’ve been putting up lately) and going back to the thing i like most, concrete.. 😀 here’s another take of grand central terminal.. previous one is found here..
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fdr
..taken near the east river park, dropping loogies on cars passing by.. i’m just kidding.. 🙂
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helmsley
..a “normal” perspective of the helmsley building.. click here to read more about it and see a more “radical” perspective..
..a couple waiting for a cab.. or the stop light to go green.. i can’t remember.. 🙂
*the page doesn’t seem to open up with internet explorer, i’ll try fixing this on the weekend.. in the meantime, this is a sign for you guys out there to jump ship and use mozilla/chrome already.. haha..
..i always seem to end my stroll sitting down in this place..
..same place where i shot this using a 15mm fisheye..
..well, i won’t be lounging at home the whole day today, i’ll be in my cube..
..here’s another one from 5 Pointz..
..a long exposure shot in front of the st. george’s police station.. try doing this in front of an NYPD station, let’s see what happens to you.. 😀
..from here, let’s go inside..
..still from 5 Pointz ..now i see the importance of leaving a signature in your work ..this graffiti’s sig + google = more of the artist’s work..
*credit goes to the artist.. i just pressed a button.. he did all the hard work.. ;D
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institute of higher burnin’
5pointz.. this is how it looks like from jackson avenue.. an ever-changing canvas of urban art.. this was taken last 2007, i wonder how it looks like now..
..what better way for a seasonal easter sunday post than this shot of the saint patrick’s cathedral a la moleman..
..amazing what a few steps and a different angle could do to change how an image looks.. the reason why i had this one tilted so high up is because of the scaffolding surrounding the cathedral, it just doesn’t look right..so for this one, i tried covering it up with light trails which seemed to do the trick.. (i guess)
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highbridge peeking
..taken at the same time and place as this one.. the Highbridge Water Tower, peeking through the treetops..
..here’s the bling-bling district.. shot wide open, hand held with ultra high iso, in the middle of the street.. colors are kind of blah so opted for the black and white..
The Diamond District is an area of New York City located on West 47th Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) in midtown Manhattan, within walking distance of many New York attractions. It is located one block south of Rockefeller Center, three blocks south of Radio City Music Hall (along the Avenue of the Americas), three blocks south of St Patrick’s Cathedral (along Fifth Avenue), and one block east of the Broadway Theater District. The Plaza Arcade, lined with shops, connects the street to Rockefeller Center.
The district was created when dealers moved north from an earlier district near Canal Street and the Bowery that was created in the 1920s, and from a second district located in the Financial District, near the intersection of Fulton and Nassau Streets, which started in 1931. The move uptown started in 1941. The district grew in importance when the German Nazis invaded the Netherlands and Belgium, forcing thousands of Orthodox Jews in the diamond business to flee Antwerp and Amsterdam and settle in New York City. Most of them remained after World War II, and remain a dominant influence in the Diamond District… (wiki)
**for those of you curious as to how it’ll look in color, here ya go..
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a path, a park, and a bridge
..well, i guess i’m a sucker for bridges like some of you noticed.. 🙂
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chelsea styles
..taken on a stroll through chelsea..
*i’ve uploaded some images from this photoblog to panoramio and geo-tagged them if you’re curious where i take my photos..
..on a whim, here’s another one from the moleman series.. i could’ve named this the sewer rat series.. i think that sounds better.. hmm..
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bow bridge
..i’m taking a break from the bermuda photos, so i’m going back to nyc..
..this here’s the bow bridge in ‘the lake’ @ central park..
..chinese fast food.. bermuda style.. a few blocks from where we stayed..
..thanks to all who passed by here the past few days, i’ll be back to visiting in a sec.. lemme just take a nap.. ;D
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chug chug goes the tugboat
..how’s that for a title! 😀 now if only the chrysler was a bit taller, this’ll look like those AT&T “bars” advertisement, but the signal’s going down instead of up.. hmm..
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something’s aglow
..here’s a UFO USO surfacing from the east river..
*after reading mike’s comment, i changed UFO to USO because it makes perfect sense.. why hadn’t i thought of it.. maybe it’s because i’m off to bermuda again this weekend.. lol! ;D
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light of all
..it seems i’ve been bitten by the tweakies again.. the sun on the light post was just too good to pass up so i tweaked away (or at least attempted to.. 😀 )
..this here’s the arlington street church..
Arlington Street Church is a Unitarian Universalist church located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1729 as the “Church of the Presbyterian Strangers”, it became independent in 1787, taking on a Congregational model. In 1803, it called William Ellery Channing as its minister who defined “Unitarian Christianity” and launched the Unitarian movement, making the Arlington Street Church one of the first to define itself as Unitarian. On May 17, 2004, the church was the site of the first state-sanctioned same-sex marriage in the United States. (more)
..and, if you were wondering about that blue cast.. yeah.. it’s deliberate..
..here’s a couple walking down beacon street ( i guess.. 😀 )..
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park street
..boston’s subway, the oldest subway in america..
..buddhist monks enjoying the view..
ei, bro.. this is soooo zen!
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augmented reality
..this here’s the park beside the city hall in philly..
..i know, the image’s title is totally unrelated.. the title is for that video down below, something i picked up from chase jarvis dot com.. some kind of cool 3d/2d thingy to play around with.. hit it up and try it out here.. just don’t do it in the office.. 🙂
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..taken last december on a wind buffeted subway platform in brooklyn..
..for those of you who are familiar with this place then no explanation necessary.. for those who aren’t (including me.. lol), here’s a wiki excerpt:
Wollman Skating Rink is a public ice rink in the southern part of Central Park, Manhattan, New York City. The rink was opened in 1949 with funds donated by Kate Wollman. Historically, the rink has been open for ice skating from October to April and in the summer seasons is transformed into a venue for other purposes.
The Rink has been used as the venue for several summer concerts. The first annual summer music festival at there was sponsored by Rheingold beer company and opened on July 1, 1966. The Rheingold Central Park Music Festival also took place during the summer of 1967. The first annual Schaefer Music Festival opened on June 27, 1968 and ran each summer through 1976. The first annual Dr. Pepper Music Festival opened on July 6, 1977 and ran annually through the summer of 1980 (the 15th, and last annual music festival held at the Wollman Rink).
SummertimeThe venue no longer hosts concerts, but it is still used for public ice skating in the winter and in the summer it houses the Victorian Gardens Amusement Park.
Wollman Rink has also been featured in several movies, including Love Story.
Wollman Rink is currently operated by the Trump organization, and is today known as the Trump Wollman Skating Rink. Donald Trump leased the rink from 1987 to 1991. From 1991 to 2001 George Makkos from The Makkos Organization of M&T Preztle, operated Wollman Rink. Since 2001, Wollman Rink has been operated by a joint venture between Trump Organization and Rink Management Services of Mechanicsville VA. Trump completely rebuilt the Rink.
..btw, i’ve recently heard of Enfuse and tried it out with this image.. it’s like HDR but just not quite HDR.. have a go at it if you’ve got time.. it’s pretty cool.. (it stripped my exif data though)
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tilting the blues
..well, i’ve nothing much to say so, have fun with these specs..
City of New York
Manhattan Bridge
1901 – 1910
| Total Length of Bridge |
6855 Feet
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| Length of Main Span |
1470 Feet
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| Length of Each Side Span |
725 Feet
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| Width of Bridge |
120 Feet
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| Height of Towers, M.H.W. To Center Of Cables |
324.4 Feet
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| Depth of Trusses |
24 Feet
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| Diameter of Cables |
21 1/4 Feet
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| Breaking Strength of Each Cable |
30000 Tons
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| Weight of Steel Towers |
12340 Tons
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| Weight of Steel Cables |
8000 Tons
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| Weight of Steel Suspended Spans |
20000 Tons
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| Weight of Steel Approaches |
16600 Tons
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| Masonry-Tower Foundations |
78000 Cu. Yards
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| Masonry-Anchorages |
230000 Cu. Yards
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| Masonry-Approaches |
32700 Cu. Yards
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| Weight of Bridge Per Linear Foot |
24000 Pounds
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| Weight of Each Anchorage |
232000 Tons
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eiffel tagged
..haven’t gone out shooting for a while now, just stayed at home tagging some 453 gigs of photos.. i still have a bunch of goodies here so bear with me.. 🙂
..same place where i shot this..
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empire-zilla
..same place where i got this..
..i was just looking at this photo and instead of the empire state building, i was thinking of godzilla.. how weird.. oh well, time to hit the sack..
..well what do you know, it works! haha..
..taken a year ago this day at the union square subway station.. japanese tapdancers.. that’s what this post’s title is.. tapdancer.. (i’m not sure if it comes out on your system right.. it’s in katakana).. same place where i shot this..
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100 reflection
..a reflection of this thingy over here..
..here’s a bench enticing me to take a seat while walking down Front Street in Bermuda..
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archs
..taken on a walk somewhere in central park..
*i forgot to mention that yesterday’s image was from lawrence orchards somewhere in upstate new york..
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in a pinch
..while shooting this one, a guy looking like a state trooper approached me and asked if i was with some newspaper or something like that (i guess, you’d have to have a permit for that sort of stuff).. eventually i convinced him that i was just some tourist going around the city.. so i got the usual tourist treatment with the obligatory tour + lecture.. 😀
..ahh, monday…
..for those of you who haven’t ventured inside the st. patrick’s cathedral on fifth avenue, here’s what it looks like..
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cleopatra’s needle
..taken near the Great Lawn..
Cleopatra’s Needle (“L’aiguille de Cléopâtre” in French) is the popular name for each of three Ancient Egyptian obelisks re-erected in London, Paris, and New York City during the nineteenth century. The London and New York ones are a pair, while the Paris one comes from a different original site, where its pair remains. Although the needles are genuine Ancient Egyptian obelisks, they are somewhat misnamed as they have no particular connection with Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt, and were already over a thousand years old in her lifetime. The Paris “needle” was the first to be moved and re-erected, and the first to acquire the nickname.
..an artist showcasing (and selling) her work..
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oohs and aahs
..a pair of ladies looking up at the flatiron building..