..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) 😀
..yeah, i know.. cheesy title yet again.. i’m much too preoccupied with the lakers game to think of something catchy.. that’s as catchy as it can be..
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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..
..here’s another cardinal shot without the freaky leaves effect.. this time, he’s striking a pose.. i find these birds amusing.. they seem to be outgoing in that they seem to get bored and try to play catch with other birds..
..i’m not particularly keen on flowers, birds and stuff so i just post them here with weird titles in the hope that someone will be able to identify them.. i was thinking of “fuzzy wuzzies” but that was just too flowery..
..here’s where a reticulating screen comes in handy.. or you can go belly flop near dog poo.. hehe.. just kidding..
..thanks to whatbird.com i was able to figure out what this was.. this image above was taken shortly after getting home for lunch when wifey pointed out a weird looking bird perched in the middle of the lake for hours.. this image below was taken by wifey..
..i guess i surprised him, he does look petrified.. 😀
The Double-crested Cormorant has a large range, estimated globally at 3,200,000 kilometers. It is native to the nations of North America and many island nations and has been seen in various countries throughout Europe. This bird prefers wetlands and neritic or coastal marine ecosystems. The global population of this bird is estimated to be 1,100,000 to 2,200,000 individuals and it does not appear to meet population decline criteria that would necessitate inclusion on the IUCN Red List. The current evaluation status of the Double-crested Comorant is Least Concern. read more..
..another awesome shot by wifey.. and if you’re wondering if we got mutant trees, i’d tell you no.. i just did a selective color thingamajig to make the birdy more prominent, it’s hard to tell where it is with all the green leaves around it.. even i had a hard time finding these birds camouflaged in these trees but wifey had no problem locating them.. talk about good eyesight, i guess i should eat my veggies too..
..okay, here’s more from a mini-series of wildlife we happened to see while strolling around our place.. it’s blue, it’s a bird, so i’ll call it a blue bird, correct? 😀
..yep, it’s that Lionel Richie song.. and nope, i have no idea (again) what this frog is.. help me out wouldja? ;D
..still from last year’s event, here’s a cosplayer.. i didn’t know what character she was so i just picked this image with her back to me..
..this day last year i went to the Sakura Matsuri event at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden.. now, i’ll just be on my couch surfing the net instead of lying down under these cherry blossom trees (see image below)..
..what happens when you leave your camera with the paparazzi lens at home with the wifey.. surprise, surprise, you’ll just have a bunch of awesome wildlife photos the next time you load your CF card to your computer..
..extend your positive comments to her why dontcha? ;D oh, and btw, i have no idea what kind bird this is..
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how to kill a mockingbird 1/2
..wifey saw this when we were going out to do the laundry.. some kind of bird hanging on a fishing string noose.. it’s sad, but how often do you see a bird on a noose, eh?
..i’ll be posting two images today, i don’t wanna keep this image here all day, it’s too depressing..
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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..
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graffiti font
..still from 5 Pointz..
..tell me i’m not the only one who can’t read what’s written here..
..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..
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roofies and chimneys
..part of the view we had from the place we stayed in St. George’s..
..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..
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stalactites
..still from the caves, some stalactites hanging from the cave’s ceiling..
..at an average growth rate of about 0.005 inches a year*, this 4 foot stalactite would be arout 9600 years..
*from wiki
..okay, i decided to re-do thursday’s post and found another one of these bermuda boat photos.. enjoy! 😀
..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..
..i looked at yesterday’s image and it was ghastly (sorry about that).. i guess i need a monitor calibrator..
..shooting wide open at high iso was a good idea that time too.. i think i’ll just post some of those in my flickr later.. hehe..
..this here’s from the maritime museum.. the “swim with the dolphins” attraction is to the left..
..looking at these pictures i had, i just noticed how similar these boats looked like..
..this one was taken at an underground lake in the fantasy caves.. the water was pretty clear and calm and the only thing disturbing it are the drops of water falling from the stalactites..
..i remember the wind blowing so hard that water was churning under flatt’s bridge (it’s somewhere in the left part of the frame, i think i’ll post another one later..) and through the inlet pretty hard while i took this..
..we were figuring out how to get to the crystal caves.. it was a long walk, good thing the friendly locals pointed us to the right direction.. ride a bus.. 😀
..remember this? well, i still have one more.. this one is taken a few steps further away from the first one..
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claustrophobe
..okay, back to bermuda..
..is this what your monday feels like? my advise.. go drink coffee.. lots and lots of it.. 😀
..just in front of the high cave on last friday’s post, there’s a bunker that serves as a mini-museum.. these are the narrow paths criss-crossing it.. not good if you’re a claustrophobe..
..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..
..still from the keep, this is called the high cave.. this body of water doesn’t go anywhere.. the boat is probably for tourists falling in the water..
..taken on the elevated, western tip of bermuda.. a fortress.. now a museum that houses a dolphin pool.. and a propeller..
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scent back to trail
..if you look at THIS.. walk around to the right.. take a few steps.. turn right again.. take a few steps again.. turn around.. voila! you’ll see this.. the bermuda perfumery..
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scaffolds
..okay back to bermuda.. taken on a walk along front street, looking for some grub.. saw these pretty cool scaffolds that are a whole lot different than those i usually see in nyc.. that over there is the missus.. ;D
..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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skeletal wreck
..i know, i know.. this ain’t a wreck.. it’s just that i couldn’t think up of a title.. well, enjoy the weekend.. 🙂
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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..
..i want a bedroom just like this one..
..taken at the aquarium..