Posted in Places on Jul 5th, 2006 No Comments »
New York City. These large, stately trees line many of the cross streets in Greenwich Village and they make it feel like the old, established neighborhood that it is. Manhattan is a grid of neighborhoods which all have unique architecture, histories, ethnic roots, growing patterns, flavors, and looks, day and night.
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jul 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. This lone swamp maple leaf is probably sick and dying but the patterns and colors are spectacular, very much like army camouflage. I got under it to shoot it from underneath and the light coming through the leaf and the canopy overhead was spectacular.
Posted in Birds on Jul 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
There’s a wonderful Alexander Calder stabile in the quad in front of City Hall in New York City. Calder lived and worked in Roxbury, Connecticut, coincidentally, right down the road from where my drum group meets every Monday night. I’ll be driving by his house (he’s long passed) in an hour.
Posted in Birds on Jul 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
Looks to me like a male pigeon is preening and necking with a female. This was inside the gated grounds of City Hall in New York City.
Posted in Architecture on Jul 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
New York City. The ornamental detail, the evidence of construction, and the foreshortening from such a steep angle makes this building look like a cross between a fortress and a galactic battle cruiser. If the face of the building were a bit less rectangular I might believe we were in Barcelona and this was an [...]
Posted in Drumming, Places on Jul 2nd, 2006 No Comments »
Kent, Connecticut. Last night our drum group, The Offbeats played a gig outdoors a few towns away. This picture was taken by my wife Anne of three of us (the main group has 4 more people in it) playing a latin improv on wooden “cajon” drums. Nora (left) is playing a large bass drum, Fumio [...]
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