..starting off a series from shots i took from the 2007 village halloween parade..
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..uber late sunday post..
..stuff to keep me preoccupied this weekend.. 🙂
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hispanic
..a museum’s facade up in harlem..
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whomping willow
..this one just reminded me of the whomping willow tree in harry potter..
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..there, that’s your scientific name, now get out..
..if you were lost and starving in a jungle, would you eat this? 😀
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empire lobby
..had to take a snap as fast as i could to get this to avoid being jostled by the masses.. 🙂
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..sunday..
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..arriving early has it’s benefits, you get to roam around and shoot more..
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..this might be the last of the MoMA series, most of the images i have are just some random snaps just worth a flickr photodump perhaps.. as elaine mentioned, i don’t want to post a picture of a picture, that’s kinda boring IMO.. and some of you were wondering how i was able to get snaps of these works of art, well, i guess if you don’t use your flash then all’s good.. now, on to the image.. that’s van gogh’s starry night..
The Starry Night is a painting by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. The painting depicts the view outside his sanitarium room window at night, although it was painted from memory during the day. Since 1941 it has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Reproduced often, the painting is widely hailed as his magnum opus. (more)
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mmm.. soup..
..that’s 32 campbell soup cans for you..
Campbell’s Soup Cans, which is sometimes referred to as 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans, is a work of art produced in 1962 by Andy Warhol. It consists of thirty-two canvases, each measuring 20 inches (510 mm) in height × 16 inches (410 mm) in width and each consisting of a painting of a Campbell’s Soup can—one of each of the canned soup varieties the company offered at the time. The individual paintings were produced with a semi-mechanized silkscreen process, using a non-painterly style. Campbell’s Soup Cans’ reliance on themes from popular culture helped to usher in pop art as a major art movement in the USA. (more)
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..slowly turning out into a series, eh? well, here’s more from the MoMA.. i didn’t quite get the name of this wire sculpture though..
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..dumpster diving ..taken on my first(?) visit to the MoMA..
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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon) is a large oil painting of 1907 by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) which portrays five nude female prostitutes in a brothel on Avinyó Street in Barcelona. All of the figures depicted are physically jarring, none conventionally feminine, all slightly menacing, and each is rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes. Two of the women are rendered with African mask-like faces, giving them a savage and mysterious aura. In his adaption of Primitivism and abandonment of perspective in favor of a flat, two-dimensional picture plane, Picasso makes a radical departure from traditional European painting. The work is one of Picasso’s most famous, and is widely considered to be a seminal work in the early development of both Cubism and modern art. It is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, having been acquired by the museum in 1939. (more)
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gwb
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..if you had a macro, what would be the first thing you’ll shoot at 1:1? for me, i guess it’s bugs.. 🙂
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cemetery bound
..a train heading for the cemetery at night.. and we were headed for the casino that time, talk about “signs”, eh? good thing we didn’t lose.. 🙂
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..this is where i parked my horse.. 😀
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..in shooting street, you may sometimes encounter someone who really doesn’t want to have his/her photo taken.. what do you do when you encounter someone like that? i personally don’t know what to do.. take this one, for instance.. she was just trying to take a snap of the guy’s dog but he went ballistic on her.. tsk3..
..on to the shot, this was taken by wifey on a picnic in the park, there was a mayoral candidate beside us campaigning while lounging under a tree, talking to locals and giving away stuff..
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..an empty 7 train platform..
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..Sleep, usher dreams
Taint to nightmares from a sunless nether..
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st. charles line
Streetcars in New Orleans have been an integral part of the city’s public transportation network since the first half of the 19th century. The longest of New Orleans’ streetcar lines, the St. Charles Avenue Streetcar, is the oldest continuously operating street railway system in the world, according to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Today, the streetcars are operated by the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA). (wiki)
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st. louis cathedral
..after dinner, en route to cafe du monde, we passed by the st. louis cathedral and since most of the people were celebrating Southern Decadence on bourbon street, there wasn’t that much people around.. so we stopped by and tried taking a shot of this at night.. i propped the cam at an angle on my slippers and bracketed the shot, thinking that the last and longest exposure was done, i took the camera and boom, i spoiled the shot.. or maybe not.. 😀
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..notice the light blur on the left side of the tallest spire..
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big easy nights
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anne rice cemetery
..too bad this was closed when we went there, but it was still a good photo op.. 🙂
Lafayette No. One is known as the “Anne Rice Cemetery†to many, because the author has set a number of scenes from both her “Mayfair Witches†and “Vampire†novels there. When the movie “Interview With The Vampire†was filmed, the production company constructed a plywood “tomb†in an empty corner of the cemetery because a normal tomb was obviously too small to shoot Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise sitting inside it! (from cities of the dead (dot) net)
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..while looking for something to post, i found this one.. subliminally because i had corn soup just a while ago?
..took this while strolling around the garden district, this framing was my wife’s idea.. good, eh? 😀
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..why not take the stairs once in a while..
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..creepy trees and a mansion, i think i see someone peeping out of the window (or maybe not).. 😀
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..a close up of the domino’s sugar facility along the mississippi river..
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beautiful
..while aboard the natchez, as the tour guide was explaining about stuff going by the banks of the mississippi river, i just kept snapping away.. i can’t seem to remember what this is.. i like the message written on it though..
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natchez
..the natchez, tooting it’s horn before docking.. it was a pretty loud toot too.. 🙂
..got a chance to ride this boat up and down the river, there was even a steam calliope that was playing before we boarded the boat.. ’twas pretty neat..
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..i just like how the street lamps here go on and on..
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..i’m interrupting the NOLA series for this one.. Digitized Chaos is now 2 years old! woohoo! thanks for everyone who visited here the past two years.. 🙂
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odd couple
..a not so sober couple on the train.. the girl is the hefty one on the left, and the skinny guy’s the one leaning on her arm..
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tribute in light
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head on collision
..milliseconds before being hit by a lexus..
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..the view from our room.. this is lower canal street on the lower left frame, the big flat building on the left is the audobon insectarium, next is the westin(?) at the end of the street is what i believe is the world trade center building.. all in all a great view.. 🙂
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..i’m a big anne rice fan, that’s why when i read somewhere that she started out in new orleans and had a house here, i just had to take a snap of it.. so here it is 1239 first street, there was a remax sign in the gate though..
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kiddy view
..back from new orleans, it was a great place to explore and would certainly try going back again.. did a lot of touristy stuff and stuffed food like crazy.. this here was shot while strolling down bourbon street at night.. i have no idea how it looks like at daytime, but at night, it sure was really wild.. my wife’s gaydar blew up that time because this labor day weekend was the time they celebrated Southern Decadence, so i guess if you’re a single straight male planning to go there on the labor day weekend, i highly suggest you refrain from doing so.. ;D
..here’s one shot i thought of posting for today but wasn’t really a clear capture, but was worth sharing anyways..
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..as if this place couldn’t get any more eye catching..
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corolla
..shenanigans! 😀 yep, similar to yesterday’s post, this was shot at an auto show and given the panning look via photoshop.. by the time you read this, i might be probably roaming around the streets of new orleans.. have a rockin’ weekend.. 🙂
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gt-r
..i’ll let you guys figure it out.. 😀
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mom n daughter
..a familiar place, i’ve posted from this place already..
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zooming on 45
..it seems i’ve freaked out some of you out there so let’s get back to the usual stuff here.. 😀
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..still using a regular flash gun here, tilted in some contorted way just to illuminate the subject.. framing’s not topnotch because i was manual focusing while tiptoeing.. was a bit edgy too because this looked like a nasty spider and i wasn’t aware if it gave a nasty bite or not.. turns out they do.. 😀
The golden silk orb-weavers (genus Nephila) are a genus of spiders noted for the impressive webs they weave. Nephila consists of numerous individual species found around the world. They are also commonly called golden orb-weavers, giant wood spiders or banana spiders. In North America, the golden silk orb-weavers (see also Nephila clavipes) are sometimes referred to as writing spiders due to occasional zigzag patterns (stabilimenta) built into their webs, though these occur much more frequently in the webs of Argiope, such as the St Andrew’s Cross spider. (more)
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..a new category has been added here called macro.. i’ve been leaning towards doing macro now because i’ve not much to shoot here nowadays especially when i can’t roam around the place a lot.. but we do have a lake here and a fair amount of trees and bushes to explore so let’s see where that’ll lead me..
..so far, for shooting bugs 1:1, i found it difficult to shoot in available light because of the limited DOF, so i’ve created a DIY ring light and it looks promising (i haven’t used it on this spider though, it’s just your regular flash)..
..here’s a 100% crop of mr. spider..
