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Gluttony

Merry Christmas to all! As always, the holiday season is an excuse to satiate some of our worldly desires. What better way to celebrate the holidays by stuffing your mouth full of hot dogs no? Bon Apetit!

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Indoor Photos

Help Wanted

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Architecture Indoor Photos Urban

Coney Island Subway

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Architecture Fisheye Nightscape People Photos Urban

BP Grill & Cafe

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Automobile Fisheye Photos Urban

PORSH-uh

Got home on a rainy weekend afternoon and saw this Porsche parked in front of our apartment. Being the country bumpkin and not used to these luxury cars parked around, I got my camera and shot a few bursts.

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Bug

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Fisheye Photos Urban

In Transit

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Wormhole

Random snipe from the end of the shuttle train from Grand Central to Times Square. Guess which end..

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Nightscape Photos

Fairy Dust

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Architecture Nightscape Photos Urban

Brooklyn Bridge

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Nightscape Photos

Angels & Snowflakes

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Indoor People Photos Urban

Sax

Depending on which subway you might’ve been to in NY, chances are you will be encountering a very diverse group of artists (dancers & musicians) performing for the crowds for free. Some might even be on the train. Most of them congregate on stations with a high volume of people passing by like Times Square or Union Square. This guy is part of a 5/6 man brass & percussion band that I’ve seen twice already. They’re really good.

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Architecture Landscape Photos Urban

Layers

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Architecture Fisheye Photos Urban

Norway spruce

This year’s tree is an 85-foot Norway spruce from the Shelton, Connecticut yard of Joseph and Judith Riunyaks, according to Connecticut Post.

The tree is topped by a 9.5-foot, 550-pound Swarovski Star with more then 25,000 crystals and 1 million facets — the largest ever for a Rock Center tree.

The November 28 tree-lighting ceremony, is scheduled to air live on NBC from 7 to 9 p.m. and is open to anyone in the public willing to brave the crowds and the traffic to take in the celebrity-studded show. Ahem, that would be us.

The tree will stay in the plaza until January 8, lit daily from 5:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.; all day on Christmas and 5:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. on New Year’s Eve.

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Photos Urban

Work in Progress

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Concrete Canvas 03

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Mad Idea

01

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Landscape Nature Photos

Shedding

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Landscape Nature Photos

Hello, Autumn

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Nightscape Photos Urban

Scarecrow

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Panorama Photos Urban

Concrete Canvas 02

Stitched 5-6 exposures to come up with this.

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Pimped

This photo was also taken in 5Pointz. Not only do you have the warehouse to paint over, you can even paint anything! 😀 Just kidding..

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Concrete Canvas 01

I’ll be posting a series of photos taken at 5 Pointz, the premier place to shoot graffiti in NY. You can get more information about the place here. I first noticed this area during the first quarter of ’07. My apprehension to wander around that place stemmed from the idea that it was dangerous. But a simple google got rid of that fear. As it turned out, 5Pointz is a warehouse used as a canvas for a variety of novice & professional graffiti artists. Yep, they’re in cahoots with the owner.

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Indoor Photos Sculptures

Rebulto

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Architecture Indoor Photos Sculptures

Portal

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Architecture Nightscape Panorama Photos Urban

Manhattan Pano

I again recently got to test how steady my grip was. A single shot just wouldn’t cut it so I just stitched 4-5 not-so-sharp exposures in a pano to minimize the blur. 🙂

  • Shot hand held on the “Rock” with only the ledge to steady my grip. (I guess tripods aren’t allowed, except for the “official photographer” who’ll sell you a shot for a not so reasonable price.)
  • Freezing winds buffeted my gloveless hands.
  • The widest I could go was 3.5
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Architecture Indoor Photos Urban

Light Speed

Have you been to Top of the Rock? If you do, you’ll know what this is. This is what you see while waiting in line to buy the tickets.

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Holiday Gridlock

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Jingle Balls

Christmas is around the corner. Time to drop some serious “equipment” dough. lol.

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Photos Sculptures

Derriere

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Architecture Photos Urban

Westin

This is the Westin in Times Square, the striking colors are brought about by multicolored glass skin contrastingly striped to evoke the movement of traffic on uptown and crosstown streets.

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Indoor Photos Sculptures

Nuninuninu

I was browsing through my library to post whatever nonsense I thought was worth posting while chatting with my good friend Sezzy when the mouse hovered over this image. Somehow, this image and her post’s title sort of looked like a good match. Don’t ask me why.. What makes sense to me probably won’t make sense to you. To each his own. G’Night..

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Architecture Photos Urban

Enduro KA-2

The title sounds like some techy gizmo thingy right? Or some random shiny acronym that I made up? Actually, it’s the kind of metal that clads the spire of the Chrysler building.

“Enduro KA-2” metal is an austenitic stainless steel developed in Germany by Krupp and marketed under the trade name “Nirosta” (A German play-on-words for “nie rost”, meaning “never rust”)

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Architecture Photos Sculptures

Arrival

The Irish Government’s Office of Public Works commissioned a Famine Ship Sculpture, entitled “Arrival” by artist John Behan, which the Taoiseach was presented to the Secretary General of the UN, Kofi Anan, in December 2000.

The bronze sculpture, measuring some 7 metres in length and 8 metres in height, is a variation on the National Famine Memorial at Murrisk, Co. Mayo, on the West Coast of Ireland. In place of the heavily symbolic skeletal rigging at Murrisk, the human element in the UN sculpture is represented by survivors of the trip disembarking in the United States of America. A total of some 150 figures was cast in bronze, the majority on deck, with a small number descending the gangplanks.

The sculpture was cast at a foundry in Kilmainham, Dublin 8. Sculptor, John Behan is one of Ireland’s leading artists, his work is included in collections owned by, amongst others, President Clinton, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Placido Domingo and the late Samuel Beckett.

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Architecture Photos Urban

Solidarity Among Sisters

This sculpture was created by Silvio Russo and was a gift by the Arab women to the women of the world. The artist has shaped this gift in the form of an abstract image of a number of women, each of whom is holding out her hand to the next. This image then becomes transformed, with great artistic perception, into a radiant sun with its rays and warmth extending in all directions.

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Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares

A bronze statue donated by the Soviet Union to the United Nations on 1959. It was sculpted by Evgeniy Vuchetich to represent the human wish to end all wars by converting the weapons of death and destruction into peaceful and productive tools that are more beneficial to mankind

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From Beyond

My wife saw this hole while we were walking around Washington Heights. The fading sun enhanced the concrete’s texture making it look like a lunar surface.

From Beyond is an album by the death metal band Massacre that I used to listen to when I was in high school.

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Church of the Intercession

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Serenity in Death

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El Cid

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Transfigured

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Black Sunshine

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Repose

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Old

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Nature Nightscape Photos Urban

Dog Walking

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Penn

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Tagged

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High Bridge Water Tower

This graceful water tower, located in Manhattan’s Highbridge Park at 174th  Street, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  It has been a visual landmark on the heights of Manhattan overlooking the Harlem River since 1872. The tower was not part of the original Croton Aqueduct.  It was added to serve the growing number of residents in the villages of north Manhattan, which were at an elevation higher than the Croton Aqueduct.

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Pipe Dream

Viewing the interior of a tower-like structure such as this for the first time is a thrill! As for the climb.. well that’s a different story.

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Upwards and Uninterested

This is the second spiral staircase leading to the top of the tower. I ascended the stairs out of curiosity but found nothing of interest. I was a bit hopeful that I could at least get a more spectacular view than the one on the tank room but it was a dark windowless chamber. I wonder what it was used for?

Upwards and Uninterested is a song by a death metal band Napalm Death.