Translation from English

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Au Clair de La Lune 8

YOU WILL HAVE TO GO TO LAWRENCE KREGER YOU TUBE CHANNEL IT SEEMS TO SEE THIS

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Lion in The Winter. A Capella

 Hoyt Axton song from the 1970's.  I thought I knew it, even thought I could sing it LOL


Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Untapped New York

 One site you MUST visit is Untapped New York


It carries on the tradition of many sites devoted to hidden and. lost NYC things and places...



https://untappedcities.com/


Here is just part of a recent article






Thursday, March 11, 2021

Park Bench Memorial

 Park Bench Memorial


Central Park has memorial plaques on its many benches, most of them already taken up in memory of those who used to sit there.


Here are two pix on this theme, one photo by me and another by my friend R. Shattil. Ha ha we both like the other one's picture better than our own!



Tuesday, July 28, 2020

In this case, I took a color photo of the Former Jewish Hospital up on Central Park West about 104th Street as  I remember , which has now been turned into luxury condos-- very posh-- with an elegant courtyard and a fountain and Lamborghinis parked near it.

I tried to re-imagine it as an old sepia photo of the Hospital as it might have been when it was fairly new. This meant getting rid of anything in the photo that would distract from the impression that it came from an earlier  time. The whiting out around the hospital happened naturally because of the position of sun, but there is a modern tall condo building directly behind the Hospital which I eliminated, as well as modern  street signs of various kinds.

Oh, here is a shot from a different angle of the Hospital now-


Photography in a Different Light- More Impressionist technique

Another example of going for an impressionist/oil painting look is this photo of Central Park way up at about 100th Street and Central Park West...

Photography in a different light- Blurring instead of sharpness.

As a member of a photo club ( Park West camera club of Manhattan) I am learning more and more what conventional ideas of "what makes a good photograph" are, and getting feedback on my efforts.


I have been experimenting for some time with creating images that go against the grain and am showing some here.

For instance, the current vogue is to have images as sharp and clear as possible. I wondered what it would be like if you tried to blur an image and use Photoshop to pull it together-- did this for an online Photo contest where they wanted photos based on the theme "Red" - a shot taken in Upper Central Park near the Pond  (on some maps called the Loch). Fog and rain...inspired by French Impressionists..

Monday, March 9, 2020

Visiting The Firemen's Memorial- Sunset March 8, 2022

Today was a beautiful early Spring day 
( oh, the possibility of another snowfall is never out of the question)... as I often do, went to Firemen's Monument on Riverside Drive at West 100th Street just to meditate a little and to enjoy the views over the Hudson.

People there as sometimes taking pictures or just relaxing on their walk along the trail in Riverside Park...