..here’s something interesting i got from a morning walk around st. george’s.. 🙂
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guv’s alley
..well, back to bermuda.. here’s a pink church to brighten up the start of the work week..
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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..
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bay ridge shore
..for a landscape, i pretty much screwed up the settings for this one and wasn’t able to set the proper depth to attain the acceptable overall sharpness.. it still looked salvageable, so here it is.. distortion and all.. 😀
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no name lane
..i tawt i taw a puddy tat..
..click image below to see how this post’s title came to fruition..
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joseph stockdale
..home of Joseph Stockdale who brought the first printing press to the colony in 1783 and founded the Bermuda Gazette..
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doggie runway
..a few steps away, a doggie runway..
..look at the image below to see what i’m talking about.. 🙂
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nea’s cottage
..stayed close to home and walked around.. there was a lot of stuff to see..
..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
..this is the roof of the place where we stayed, i’m not sure if those black growth are molds though..
..looks so good from up here.. down there’s not so bad either.. today’s gonna be dreary.. tsk3..
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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 barren tree’s shadow in the park..
..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..
..looks like nobody’s home? okay, i’ll give it a few more weeks.. 😀
..looks like an ashtray, no?
..another Enfuse experiment, a three-shot blend.. it still strips the exif but i was able to salvage it by adding the original layer under it.. took about 3-5 seconds to process 3 images, so it’s pretty fast.. no auto align feature yet, so had to do it in PS.. it does exhibit a bit of “halo-ing”..have to read up more about it..
..btw, this was taken somewhere in bermuda.. 🙂
..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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saw
..just a house taken on a walk down some coastline in newport.. it’s overlooking the beach.. i bet it’s pricey..
..this is what’s left of it..
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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..
..well, what can i say? i call it how i see it.. and besides, i like the view.. 😀
..taken on top of the bermuda maritime museum, which contains bermuda’s largest fort and a dolphin pool.. 😀
..a couple of guys (the others are hiding somewhere) prepping their boat for sail.. it looks pretty brand new.. or well maintained.. or whatever they call them in seaman’s slang..
..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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trudging onwards
..took me an hour to come up with this one.. tsk3.. i have to back off on playing around with those tweakies.. 😀
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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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v-day
..there’s a “V” there somewhere..
..i like that this hobby (shutterbug) opened up my “third eye”.. i’ve been here thrice but noticed this scene just recently..
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bermuda perfumery
..nothin’ much going on today.. here’s to smelling good.. ;D
..bermuda blue smells good..
..it’s a new day..
..isn’t it great to be alive?
..some decayed thingy on a table..
..fun facts: what caused the peanut salmonella outbreak.. bird poop..
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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..
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ticker tape
..signs of the times..
..it’s the weekend! i feel like flying.. nah, i’ll just stay in bed..
..taken at the same time when i was out looking for the ‘manhattanhenge’ a few months back.. saw a biker doing some stunts for the CBS morning show thingy so i decided to drop by and shoot a few..
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what the..
..well, it’s friday the 13th and I was going over some photos to post when i saw this.. notice the lower right frame? yeah, weird, right? probably my camera strap.. flare.. or maybe not.. *insert sinister music here*
..same place where i shot this..
..halfway done..let’s toil towards the weekend..
..changed ISP at home and my pc was buggy, mr. cable man probably did something weird to it while i wasn’t there, so i’m back to a fresh install and still setting things up, will probably be a bit busy for a while..
..here’s something taken from weehawken from a few months ago..
..a little girl doodling on the street.. nyc rocks!? 😀