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Turista
This is Times Square.
Haven’t been shooting lately, some tasks I’ve been putting off for later – laundry, dishes, errands, cleaning up my PC.. to name the few – now caught up with me. Now I’m swamped. Here’s one from last Sunday’s shoot while taking a breather.
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Conservatory Water Revisited
I just can’t help but take a walk this fine day, the sun went down & I was still taking a stroll. I’ve been to this place & have shot it already but when passed by it again, it was totally different (of course it was different dum dum, it’s night already).
Test shot from a paparazzi glass. 😀
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Zakim
This is the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge @ Boston. I used to take bridges for granted, now I take it all in.
Spring was supposed to start on March, but it didn’t feel like it. The weather was crazy these past few weeks. I hope all that would end soon. Starting now, days should more or less look like this. 🙂
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Acorn St
Ladies & gentlemen.. I show you the narrowest & most photographed street in Boston, Acorn St. (Believe it or not, but that’s what’s written in my city guide.)
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Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
Waking up later than usual after recuperating from yesterday’s travels, my thoughts swayed from going to the Verrazano Bridge & laying down in bed owning the remote. As this post shows, the former whim prevailed.
The reasons for procrastination were several things: (1) I was watching a Laker game (they won!) (2) It felt cold outside. (3) If I stayed till dusk, am I going to get mugged?! And lastly ->(3) That bridge (like all other stuff here in NY) has been “shot” to death.
The thing that swayed me to go is only because I haven’t been there.
As it turned out, it wasn’t that cold. There were at least some people when the last rays of light disappeared. And I counted 2 guys with SLRs & tripods (They probably were thinking what I was thinking. 🙂 )
Anyways, here’s the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the largest suspension bridge in America. Read more about it here.
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Urban Jungle
Awhile back I’ve posted something about the Ford Foundation Building. Here’s the internal atrium garden I was talking about. Talk about working environment, this place is dope.
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New York City Hall
There was this nice spot near the guardhouse where I always wanted to shoot City Hall. The thing is, I don’t think it’s allowed.. or so I thought.
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Eastern State Penitentiary
Eastern State Penitentiary is a former state prison in the United States. It is located on Fairmount Avenue between 21st and 22nd Streets in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5 blocks north of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
It was significant architecturally, influencing the design of 250 other prisons, and is a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
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La Porte de l’Enfer
La Porte de l’Enfer (translated The Gates of Hell) is a monumental sculptural group work by French artist Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from “The Inferno”, the first section of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. It stands at 6 m high, 4 m wide and 1 m deep (19.69’H × 13.12’W × 3.29’D) and contains 180 figures. The figures range from 15 cm high up to more than one metre. Several of the figures were also cast independently by Rodin.
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Cathedral Basilica
After my recent trip to Philly, I now have this impression that it’s full of homeless people. The whole day, I’ve had around 8 guys who approached me asking for spare change. There was also this guy named “Spoon”, who offered me a “free” tour around City Hall. Not wanting to be rude, I went along. I admit though that he knew what he was talking about. I learned a lot during the 5-10 minute walk.
What we have here is the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. Read more about it here.
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Philly Hall
Today, I decided to venture out of the confines of NY. Disregarding the predicted dismal weather, I chose a place that’s accessible by public transportation & isn’t too vast that I’d need a vehicle (assuming I could drive one. lol). I went to the city of Philadelphia also known as the “City of Brotherly Love”. Below is the route I took while walking around the city. >=D
Shown here is the Philadelphia City Hall with One Liberty Place at the right side. The City Hall is the world’s tallest masonry building. Read more about it after the jump.
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Daguerreotyped
Taken on location at our weekly meetup.
The decision to render it this way was probably because I was watching Headbanger’s Ball reruns. 😀 \m/
‘Nuff said.. It’s time for retroactive postings.. 😀
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Time Warner
What do you do when you get out at the office at 6PM & notice that the sun is still high up in the sky. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?! Exactly.. SHOOT some stuff!!
Just got back from the West Coast.. alone. I guess it’s in situations like this where you feel “homesick” the most. Well, it’s just a few weeks. Suck it up, soldier! 🙂
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Going to Church
This is the LA Cathedral. I’m off to attend my cousin’s wedding. From the I-20 & surrounding streets, this structure doesn’t look impressive at all, but once inside, you get to see & feel the vastness of the complex. Here are some facts & numbers:
- Designed by Spanish Pritzker Prize architect Rafael Moneo.
- Features a series of acute and obtuse angles. There is an absence of right angles.
- Designed with protections from future earthquake structural damage. Every detail of construction was specified to last approximately five hundred years.
- The site of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is 5.6 acres (23,000 m²) bound by Temple Street, Grand Avenue, Hill Street and the Hollywood Freeway.
- The 12-story high building can accommodate 3,000+ worshippers.
- The site includes the cathedral proper, a 2.5 acre (10,000 m²) plaza, several gardens and waterfalls, the Cathedral Center (with the gift shop, the Galero Grill, conference center, and cathedral parish offices), and the cathedral rectory, the residence of Roger Mahony. The entire complex is 58,000 square feet (5,000 m²).
- The main sanctuary is 333 feet (100 m) long (purposely one foot longer than St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York).
- This is where Lea Salonga got married. 😉
Shiny, happy, tech news. Mr. Gaijin got a new toy. Best to test it on a trip to the West Coast then. 🙂
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Nice View
Toting a camera most of the time makes you more aware of your surroundings. Like this one, taken while waiting on the lobby of a midtown building.
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1936
Beneath all the glitz & glamour of those technologically advance automobiles at Javits Center, there was this less populous exhibit. It was a display of cars from the LeMay Museum, America’s car museum. And here was one of it’s stars, the 1936 Hudson Custom Eight Convertible Coupe.
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Furai
Early this morning, on my way to see the Easter parade at 5th Avenue, there was a lot of things running on my mind. Especially since the trains were running local, I had a lot of time to cerebrate. One of them was deciding whether to forgo the Easter parade for the Auto Show. Needless to say, I opted for the Auto Show, and it was great!
Here’s a quick clip of what this car is all about. Lifted from Wikipedia.
The Mazda Furai is a concept car revealed on 27 December, 2007 and manufactured by Mazda. A teaser image of the vehicle was released on 11 December, 2007. The Furai officially debuts at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
The Furai, meaning Sound of the wind, is based on the Courage Compétition C65 Le Mans Prototype that Mazda last used to compete in the American Le Mans Series, two seasons previously[3] and is designed to use E100 ethanol fuel. The car bears the #55 number that of its 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans winning ancestor, the 787B.
Feathers fly and teddies soar as we gather for a massive urban pillow fight! Swing and whack as you evade pillow-wielding assailants. Bring a pillow to Union Square and wait for the signal. Pillow fight!
– freenyc.net
Newsletters save you the trouble of sifting through the digital debris amidst the bits & bytes of the internet. All things said, this event was a blast! At first I cowered at a top level of a local department store, but my flimsy zoom didn’t just cut it, so I braved the crowds and went around. As it turned out, it wasn’t that bad. =)
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Fiery
Wow, the first day of spring! It didn’t actually feel like it though, it’s still freezing cold. I’ll give it a few more weeks and see what happens. Maybe it’s global warming that’s causing all this. I wonder how hot summer will be. Hmm.. Fiery?
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Eiffel?
Thanks to the equinox, I got to visit Manhattan Bridge again. I didn’t even reach the halfway point, it was a bit breezy the time I got there so I settled for this “Eiffel-like” shot.
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Empire
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Downtown
Off the promenade @ Brooklyn Heights, Manhattan’s downtown.. illuminated.
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Exit Strategy
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Twin Bridges
The Giant Inflatable Rat (G.I.R.). My first encounter with this character made me think that there was some sort of event happening, only to find out that this was a favorite tool of the pro-union protesters around the city. Meaning that the guys around the rat are “in strike” / protest. The G.I.R pales in comparison to the PI where you see a mob of people brandishing banners, picket signs & megaphones.
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Manhattan Bridge
It’s the weekend, it’s been raining since last night. Depressing ain’t it? I’m going back to bed.
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Zoom Zoom
Sniping the FDR from an overpass from the East River Park.
For every yin, there’s a yang. Somehow I got lost yesterday but I got to see this station at F’s York Street. The stark blue steel foundations against the drab station literally screamed at me to take it’s picture. Though I was a bit tentative setting up the tripod because of the heightened paranoia caused by the bombing at Times Square, I was lucky to get off a few shots. 🙂
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Raoul Wallenberg Monument
detective 1988-1993
new york police department
rookie of the year
awarded by staten island
community board #1, 1987
medal of honor
awarded for extraordinary
bravery by nypd, 1995
killed in the line of duty
in the war against narcotics
on march 10, 1993
Let’s Dance! That’s what I was trying to say, but what with these tap dancers being Japanese, I thought of this title.
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Roadkill
If you’ve ever been to The Met, you’ve probably have been into one of those European rooms that have been reconstructed & restored in one of the gallery rooms. The reconstructed room may originally be a part of a house or a hotel and is made to look exactly like the original. This photo is just a part of what the bedroom ceiling looks like. Creepy, no? I couldn’t imagine sleeping in one of those big four poster beds, in a room with a bunch of sculptures or carvings of cherubs / babies (however cute they may be). It’s just plain creepy.
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100UN
We went out for lunch and bypassed the usual route we normally take to “forage” for food. We ended up farther than usual and had a leisurely – albeit freezing – walk back to the office. Overshadowed by Trump World Tower, here’s a unique structure called 100 United Nations Plaza Tower. Info from Emporis
– This black and brown-clad building rises vertically to the upper floors, where its north and south facades taper shaply to form a top wedge.
– To break away even further from the customary, there are balconies protruding as horizontal “ribs”, going around the corners of the building — also on the lower portion of the tapering top — as well as bulging from the mid-facade.
– On the east side of the building, there is a lush plaza with a fountain.
– Entrance to 100 United Nations Plaza is through a garden plaza dramatically landscaped with handsome fountains.
– Very prominent on the East Side skyline in Midtown until overshadowed by Trump World Tower, completed in 2001.
Looks like this hobby of mine is rubbing off on someone. 🙂 Well, not that she has any say in it because I left her for like 30 minutes at the park last Sunday looking for the loo & she killed time mashing the shutter. Good job!
I guess it’s common knowledge for New Yorkers that Manhattan isn’t “bladder-friendly”, that is, you’d be hard pressed finding the loo. So, having been in NY for quite sometime, I should’ve at least have learned this.. Coffee (or other diuretics) + (extremely) Cold weather + NY = bladder nightmare. Still, a caffeine junkie won’t be a caffeine junkie without caffeine now, no? (redundant, no?).
Here’s some kids romping around in the snow.
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Imprint
NY got hit again with another snow storm. A blanket of snow 6″ thick was expected and it was what we got. 🙂 Satiated my curiosity by moseying around in the snow. Here’s a yeti’s pawprint. hehe..
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Turrets
Ate quite a lot this lunch and since it’s such a fine day, decided to walk around the back alleys of Gotham. Here’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral as viewed from the Villard House.