Thread: My month in New York City

A mostly non-shooting day today, but went up to the Lincoln Center area for a movie and did a bit of shooting on the way back, mostly in the subway.





I'm gonna wear out this ghosting trick pretty fast and then I won't use it any more, or much. But today's your lucky day... Unless you're already sick of it...







And every now and then, for reasons I'll never understand, I get the urge to photograph a flower. And there are a LOT of them around NYC this time of year. This rose bush is on my block.



-Ray

Ghosting is still looking pretty cool, specially when it is "cool comfort, light as air"!

Originally Posted by Armanius

Ghosting is still looking pretty cool, specially when it is "cool comfort, light as air"!

Yeah, well when you first have a hammer, everything looks like a nail! I like that cool comfort business and everyone rushing past the guy preaching from the Bible, but I have a feeling this is a trick that will get very old very fast. But until then, the party is ON...

-Ray

Great photos, Ray. I love New York and your pictures really do the city justice.

Originally Posted by stratokaster

Great photos, Ray. I love New York and your pictures really do the city justice.

Pavel, where have you been? Welcome back!

I never get tired of motion stuff, very nice

Originally Posted by Armanius

Pavel, where have you been? Welcome back!

+1. Nice to see ya back!

I must say, I really like the third one of that set. Very nice.

Hello, guys! thank you for welcoming me back :) I was very busy at work, my last 3 months were really crazy — I spent more time traveling than home. But I don't want to hijack Ray's thread by discussing my absence here.

I had a great last day in the city today before catching the train back to PA midday tomorrow. I don't know if the photographs will be any good - I have to start processing them before I put that critical eyepiece on and figure out whether what I have is useable. I started off by walking over to Union Square and then walking up Broadway to Central Park. The people didn't seem to be cooperating by being interesting enough, or I just wasn't adequately awake, but I wasn't feeling the street shooting. Then I walked through the Park and did some more scenic photos, some of which are probably good enough. Then around the Upper East Side a bit and then caught a subway down Lexington that tood me down to just north of Soho - I guess that'd be Noho. Walked back to Chelsea from there and, in the process, realized I'd thus far missed the biggest chunck of the best part of Greenwhich Village. Basically walked along Bleeker Street from east of NYU all the way back to where it ends at Hudson in the West Village. I'd been over he portion from Hudson to 7th about a hundred times (OK, maybe 10-15, but enough), but always continued east across 7th toward Washington Square Park, about 3-4 blocks north of Bleeker. Bleeker is AMAZING in that stretch and I was both enjoying the walk through there today immensely and kicking myself up one-side and down the other for missing this amazing area before today. Just wonderful, as cool as the West Village but seemingly a bit less over the top affluent so a bit funkier like Soho - I saw the names of some stuff I recognized (the Bitter End, Matt Uminov's guitars, etc). I wish I had a lot more time to really get to know this part of the Village. Ahhh, a reason to come back NEXT year!

I'll likely process this last batch of photos in the next couple of days and put some up here. Then I'll let this thread die. I may put together a book from this month, or not - I'll have to see what my motivation is like. I'll keep folks informed but I won't be wearing you out with 8-10 images every day anymore, except whatever I come up with from today's shooting.

I appreciate all of the nice comments, here and on Flickr. I know I put up a lot of images here. To the extent that it was just too much and you had to skip many or most, I fully understand. To the extent some of you enjoyed some of them, I'm glad for that. I've had an amazing month and have enjoyed pretty much every minute of it immensely. I hope to be able to do it again someday, whether here in NYC or in some other great city...

-Ray