Putting my experiences of Life In NYC in a more personal perspective, and checking in with international/national, tech and some other news
Translation from English
Friday, May 21, 2021
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Monday, May 17, 2021
Sunday, May 16, 2021
Saturday, May 8, 2021
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Friday, April 16, 2021
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
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
Sunday, April 4, 2021
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...
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!
Monday, January 4, 2021
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-
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..
Sunday, July 26, 2020
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...
( 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...
https://youtu.be/fbH65mD6BCQ
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