Tag: New York City
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How to deal with difficult feelings about a photographic subject
Sometimes the things we photograph stir up challenging feelings in us.
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single frame: Tall angular building
Looking up at a building in NYC.
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single frame: Central Park
A view from on high of New York City’s Central Park.
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Learning documentary photography from Berenice Abbott
I guess I’m primarily a documentary photographer, given how many photos I take of places. So I’m studying it to learn more, and the first documentary photographer I’m looking at is Berenice Abbott.
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Photo: Waiting for the bus in Harlem.
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Ten favorite photos of 2016
I made a few thousand photographs in 2016. These ten satisfy me the most.
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Across the Hudson River Canon PowerShot S95 2016
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Candles burning at St. Paul’s Chapel Canon PowerShot S95 2016
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You can experience life more deeply through the lens of a camera
So we went to see the Brooklyn Bridge. As a giant bridgefan, what I have to say first is squeeeeeeeeee!! I took a ton of photographs, and I got some good ones. I’ll share my favorite with you on Wednesday in a post all its own. We walked halfway to Brooklyn on the bridge before turning back. The pedestrian deck…
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How to deal with difficult feelings about a photographic subject
I suppose every American has some baggage around 9/11, even those of us hundreds or thousands of miles away. While we were in New York I couldn’t figure out how I felt about visiting the new World Trade Center and the neighboring memorial. Ambivalence gave way to curiosity, which yielded to revulsion. Then ambivalence returned and…
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Radio City Music Hall Canon PowerShot S95 2016
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Drop-dead gorgeous terra cotta at Alwyn Court
Our jaws dropped when we came upon this building. This is Alwyn Court, at 58th St. and 7th Ave. in New York City. It was completed in 1909 as an apartment building for the wealthy. Through about the turn of the 20th century, apartment living had a low-class stigma, but then builders started working to overcome…